Some 90% of Australians have a My Health Record. But even if it has health information stored on there, it might be less than informative and rarely referred to.
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While statistics tell us the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer who die is increasing, the reality is likely worse.
There are concerns about how health data are used, but research shows support for uses with public benefits by health-care providers, governments, health-system planners and university-based researchers.
To understand the potential for machine learning to transform medicine, we must go back to the controversial origins of data use in healthcare
A type of computer chip that mimics both the skin and brain could pave the way for wearable devices that monitor and analyze health data using AI right on the body.
One Medical provides primary healthcare services to people across the US.
The brain can count small numbers or compare large ones. But it struggles to understand the value of a single large number. This fact may be influencing how people react to numbers about the pandemic.
In order to track the pandemic, the Public Health Agency of Canada has been using location data without explicit and informed consent. Transparency is key to building and maintaining trust.
The latest NHS data sharing scheme looked set to repeat past mistakes – but the latest postponement provides hope.
Digital health can improve care, but in Ontario, health data are still fragmented, despite billions of dollars spent over the last two decades to enable fast and secure exchange of health information.
Wearables already monitor our physical health – is it time for them to track our mental health too?
The use of artificial intelligence in health care is on the rise, and the concerns of the public need to be considered in developing policy that regulates its application.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how much modern societies are governed by statistics. Despite their objective appearance, these numbers gain their strength from very human relationships.
A health law expert explains what the regulation does and doesn’t protect.
There are any more sophisticated programs available for managing health data. Why did Public Health England use Microsoft Excel?
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to calls for the collection of race-based data. But the risks of algorithmic discrimination must be addressed.
Data trusts are a key part of a health data infrastructure that manages user and patient information in a responsible, transparent and accountable manner.
If we want to know how COVID-19 works, we need to know more than just the age and sex of who it kills.
A national health plan that uses data to assess individual risk and control disease outbreaks would have created less disruption than the current coronavirus pandemic response.
A recent report by the CDC estimated that the true number of COVID-19 cases in the US could be six to 24 times more than the number of confirmed cases. A public health scholar explains the implications.
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Professor (adjunct) and Senior Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
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Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Deputy vice-chancellor (Research), Edith Cowan University
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Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Digital Economy, University of Nottingham
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Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
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PhD student, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, Digital and Social Media, University of Technology Sydney
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Information Specialist, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer of Media Studies and Digital Media, University of Sussex
