A blog on big data health topics
Health service, everyday (wearables & IoT) and genomic big data could be harnessed to forecast and overcome bottlenecks in the health system. Read my article on Divining with Data published in the April 2019 edition of The ...
The chronic disease burden is continuing to rise – with record numbers being diagnosed with conditions including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and mental illness. In developed countries, chronic diseases are often the ...
On 28 November, I’ll be presenting my latest research paper for the IFoA on the topic of Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Healthcare Demand Forecasting. In simple terms, predictive analytics is the process of learning ...
Nearly 350,000 patients spend more than three weeks in NHS hospitals in England each year. This week NHS England announced plans to try to reduce the number of long-staying patients by 25% ahead of the ...
Health service, everyday (wearables & IoT) and genomic big data could be harnessed to forecast and overcome bottlenecks in the health system. Read my article on Divining with Data published in the April 2019 edition of The Actuary magazine.
1. Improvements in AI driven by further advances in machine learning techniques As more health-care specific algorithms are developed, automated clinical decision making is likely to improve. There’s potential to use AI in diagnostics, preventative care and medical treatment. Detecting different types of brain trauma is just one promising future use of AI. 2. Embedding ...
This week, I’ll be presenting at the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Conference on Competition, Big Data and Fundamental Rights on the topic of leveraging big data to transform health care through predictive modelling. I will look at how big data sets are already being used in predictive models to improve health care. I’ll also be exploring ...
The chronic disease burden is continuing to rise – with record numbers being diagnosed with conditions including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and mental illness. In developed countries, chronic diseases are often the most expensive health conditions to treat and they account for more than 60% of deaths worldwide. An increase in physical ...
On 28 November, I’ll be presenting my latest research paper for the IFoA on the topic of Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Healthcare Demand Forecasting. In simple terms, predictive analytics is the process of learning from historical data to make predictions about future unknowns and can involve either supervised or unsupervised learning. The paper looks ...
Nearly 350,000 patients spend more than three weeks in NHS hospitals in England each year. This week NHS England announced plans to try to reduce the number of long-staying patients by 25% ahead of the winter flu season. The plan appears to be focused on reducing admissions by increasing access to primary care, providing more ...
In May 2018, I presented a session entitled “Embedding Wearable Health Tech Into Insurance” at the Society of Actuaries in Ireland’s Annual Convention. The session explored the potential for physical activity trackers and other wearable health technologies to become embedded into the insurance industry over time. It drew on evidence of the effectiveness of wearables to ...
With the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal still featuring prominently in the headlines, data privacy concerns are becoming increasingly apparent in spheres beyond social media. A major report into Genomics and Genome editing in the NHS published today by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee clearly highlights the public’s data privacy concerns surrounding genomic screening. The ...
The announcement of the development of a wearable brain scanner by a team of researchers from UCL and the University of Nottingham opens up exciting possibilities in the field of medical diagnostics and monitoring. The prototype headset can record the brain activity of a moving subject at millisecond resolution. This means that patients will no ...
Despite plans put in place in September for 3,000 more beds to be made available this winter, between Christmas Day and New Year more than 20 NHS Trusts in England reported that they were at 100% operating capacity. As a result of demand for hospital care exceeding supply, non-urgent operations have been cancelled this month ...
