Guest post by Marko Grobelnik, Quintelligence Observing anything on the global scale is generally not easy, mainly due the scale of the possible data, speed of changing the situation, and […]
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Data Without Borders
Guest blog post by Dr Austin Tanney, Analytics Engines Please repeat after me…. “I believe in a world where data has no borders, where data can be shared between people […]
Data-Enabled Policy Making in Healthcare
Guest Blog Post by Maritta Perälä-Heape, PhD; Director, Centre for Health and Technology (CHT), University of Oulu The availability of an ever-increasing amount of data is a resource whose value is impossible […]
Digital Single Market – Workshops Relevant to MIDAS
Workshop on the transformative effect of access and re-use of data for smart industries (Brussels, 6 June 2017, 10:00-16:30). More information and webstreaming link. Workshop on data access and transfer with […]
d-Lab Challenge: Transforming the Use and Governance of Personal Health Data
d-LAB is a programme of Mobile World Capital Barcelona that answers societal challenges with considerable scale and relevance. The objective of this challenge is to identify and award innovative ideas, […]
EU GDPR: Key Concepts and Implications for Data Privacy (6th June 2017)
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on 25 May 2018. This is the most significant change to impact data privacy laws in the last 20 years. […]
MyData 2017 Conference (30 Aug-01 Sep)
MyData is a human-centred approach to personal data management that combines industry need for data with digital human rights. The MyData 2017 conference will bring together an international crowd of 1000 […]
Multiple-level Choropleth Map Visualisation for Spatial Analysis in Epidemiology
Map-based visualisation is one of the key data visualisation tools in epidemiology (see World Health Organisation’s Cancer Today for main data visualisation tools for cancer prevalence analysis). The most common […]
Supporting healthcare policymaking via machine learning – batteries included!
Guest post by Marc Claesen from STADIUS, KU Leuven Due to aging populations and the ever increasing strain on healthcare budgets, defining effective healthcare policies is a major challenge. This induces […]
Evaluating the MIDAS Project
The MIDAS research project is distinctive in its approach, purpose and impact. Upon completion, it will provide exceptional advantage to those involved in the difficult process of health policy decision-making […]