Chronic Diseases
Using Data to Improve Diabetes Care
Summary
Large population data analysis provides useful clinical feedback to healthcare providers and national organisations, which aids the wider communication and understanding about changing healthcare demographics. …
Frailty Assessment Research – Potential Data Sources
For my Frailty Assessment research, I am planning to incorporate the development of a tool that enables frailty assessment in different care settings with the …
Lotte Dinesen – Clinical Research Fellow in E-health and Telemedicine
I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Lotte Dinesen, I’m a consultant in General Internal Medicine, and currently a Clinical …
Using Hadoop for Lung Volume Calculation from Computed Tomography
This post outlines an initial investigation into distributed image analysis with Hadoop. The investigation focuses on an imaginary case study – the calculation of lung …
Hospitals are under pressure as increasing numbers of elderly people, a report by experts suggest.
Dr Foster’s Hospital Guide 2012, launched last week, is the latest …
Global targets bring new hope for collaborative working to tackle NCDs
There has been a sharp focus on non communicable diseases in the past year. Last year’s UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases [NCDs] formally recognised …
Diabetes, Discovery and the Kuwait-Scotland eHealth Innovation Network
As part of the Kuwait-Scotland eHealth Innovation Network [KSeHIN] team, we have been working closely with the University of Dundee, NHS Tayside and the Dasman …