Personalised healthcare and population healthcare

Polymorphic Encryption and Pseudonymisation for Personalised Healthcare

Polymorphic encryption and Pseudonymisation, abbreviated as PEP, form a novel approach for the management of sensitive personal data, especially in health care. Traditional encryption is rather rigid: once encrypted, only one key can be used to decrypt the data. This rigidity is becoming an every greater problem in the context of big data analytics, where different parties who wish to investiga...

Personalised medicine Opportunities and challenges for European healthcare

An integrated service for Personalised Healthcare and Wellness (PHW)

At the Systems Biology Lab of the University of Florida, we are developing an integrated system, PHW service, for accessing and storing and monitoring information in personalised medicine. We intend to take a practical approach to build such a system in the framework of clinical and translational sciences of the NIH Roadmap.

A personalised Healthcare Information Delivery System: pushing customised healthcare information over the WWW.

Easier and focused access to healthcare information can empower individuals to make 'informed' choices and judgements about personal health maintenance. To achieve 'optimum' patient empowerment, we need to re-evaluate and potentially re-design the processes of healthcare information delivery. Our suggestion is that healthcare information should be personalised according to each individual's hea...

Awareness of the healthcare system and rights to healthcare in the Colombian population.

OBJECTIVES To analyze changes in users' awareness of the healthcare system and of their rights to healthcare in Colombia in the last 10 years, as well as the factors that influence users' awareness. METHODS We carried out a descriptive study to compare the results of two cross-sectional studies based on two surveys of users of the Colombian healthcare system. The first survey was performed in...