HD Explorer, February 20, 2015
The HD Explorer
The Health Data Exploration Project’s regular scan through the news.
New Research
JAMIA to release Special Focus Issue on Person Generated Health and Wellness Data; Issues call for papers.
Research is needed develop an ontology of person generated health and wellness data, including elements that may be individually person defined or that are captured already through existing clinical processes, as well as to evaluate the usage of technologies capturing and displaying person generated health and wellness data in various ways. More details…
News
Garmin to Optimize Clinical Trials through Mobile Health
Garmin has announced a strategic partnership with Medidata, a provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research to integrate Garmin’s vívofit activity tracker with Medidata’s Clinical Cloud platform. Read more…
How Pfizer Is Using Big Data To Power Patient Care
We are on the brink of a new age in healthcare and it’s being driven by a future where we can connect health information from more and more sources. Read more…
Ebola: Can big data analytics help contain its spread?
While emergency response teams, medical charities and non-governmental organisations struggle to contain the virus, could big data analytics help? A growing number of data scientists believe so. Read more…
Taking the pulse of digital health: Key legal issues surrounding wearable technology
Wearable devices present obvious privacy and security challenges for developers and manufacturers. Read more…
Despite FDA moves, push continues for Congress to act on mobile health
In recent weeks FDA has promised not to regulate technologies that receive, transmit, store or display data from medical devices, and announced it will keep its regulatory paws off most mobile medication applications as well. But that’s not enough for the industry or members of Congress who say FDA promises, in the form of agency guidances, aren’t enough. Read more…
Scripps wins USAID grant to monitor Ebola patients with medical wearables
The Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) has received a grant from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to create a program that will use health sensors to improve the health outcomes of Ebola patients. The program is called STAMP2, short for Sensor Technology and Analytics to Monitor, Predict and Protect Ebola Patients. Read more…
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