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.
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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.
People living in long-term care facilities have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 in Canada. A new report analyzing long-term care around the world assesses Canada’s pandemic performance.
It is only with comparable data that scientists can assess whether the measures they implement are effective in protecting citizens, and better prepare for future health crises.
The watchdog has voiced concerns over the proposed US$2.1 billion merger, from which both users and Australian health services could lose out.
Police departments have suggested using contact tracing approaches to track protesters, raising concerns about data and privacy.
Breastfeeding is important for infant and maternal health. But without national data non breastfeeding rates, we have no idea whether things are improving or getting worse.
The UK government has quietly relaxed a confidentiality law that protects patient health data. Here’s why that matters.
The COVID-19 pandemic presents potentially concerning trajectories for race relations. Many of these concerns might even originate within the medical profession.
On the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, we take a look at how her monumental efforts helped shape the way we model health care and disease outbreak data today.
Data breaches are on the rise, but blockchain can provide a secure way for consumers to manage their data and their privacy.
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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 Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
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Professor, Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Director, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter
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Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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University Lecturer in Accounting, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Digital Economy, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy, Addis Ababa University
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
