Better Information for Better Healthcare

Biobanking for better healthcare.

Translational cancer research is highly dependent of large series of cases including high quality samples and their associated data. Comprehensive Cancer Centers should be involved in networks to enable large-scale multi-center research projects between the centers [Ringborg, U., de Valeriola, D., van Harten, W., Llombart-Bosch, A., Lombardo, C., Nilsson, K., Philip, T., Pierotti, M.A., Riegman...

Challenges for Better thesis supervision

  Background: Conduction of thesis by the students is one of their major academic activities. Thesis quality and acquired experiences are highly dependent on the supervision. Our study is aimed at identifing the challenges in thesis supervision from both students and faculty members point of view.   Methods : This study was conducted using individual in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussi...

kHealth: Proactive Personalized Actionable Information for Better Healthcare

Mobile devices and sensors are profoundly changing the way we create, consume, and share information. Health aficionados and patients with chronic conditions are increasingly using sensors and mobile devices to track sleep, food, activity, and other physiological observations (e.g., weight, heart rate, blood pressure). This trend is leading to a paradigm shift from reactive medicine to predicti...

Better Primary Healthcare Information for Canada: A Goal within Reach.

Better Information from Better Data Visualization

As performance analysis and capacity planners, we collect data to share with co-workers and management in order to explain and justify our technical capacity and performance recommendations. To display this data, we often create the easiest graphs and don’t consider how it is perceived. This paper discusses ways to visualize data and describes scenarios in which these visualizations should be u...