Challenges and opportunities for using big health care data to advance medical science and public health

SM Shortreed, AJ Cook, RY Coley… - American journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Methodological advancements in epidemiology, biostatistics, and data science have
strengthened the research world's ability to use data captured from electronic health records …

bench4gis: Benchmarking privacy-aware geocoding with open big data

DR Harris, C Delcher - … Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Geocoding, the process of translating addresses to geographic coordinates, is a relatively
straight-forward and well-studied process, but limitations due to privacy concerns may …

[HTML][HTML] Progress towards using community context with clinical data in primary care

H Angier, EA Jacobs, N Huguet… - Family Medicine and …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Community-level factors have significant impacts on health. There is renewed enthusiasm
for integrating these data with electronic health record (EHR) data for use in primary care to …

Technical strategies for real-time geocoding in healthcare

B Rivera, M Hoffman - 2018 IEEE International Smart Cities …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The open data movement provides city, state and national data that can be useful in
providing healthcare providers with contextual information about their patients. For example …

Application of space-time disease clustering by administrative databases in Italy: Adverse Reproductive Outcomes (AROs) and residential exposure

P Barbadoro, M Agostini, MM D'Errico… - Population Health …, 2015 - Springer
Background The aims of this study were to estimate the existence of clusters of AROs in the
municipalities of the Marches Region (Central Italy) after complaints from residents living …

Spatial and census data to evaluate obese persons and their environment (SCOPE)

MA Nies, KT Weber, J Holmes… - American Journal of …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Objective: To evaluate the built environment and its relationship to BMI for individuals in
eastern Idaho. Methods: Geospatial analyses were coupled to demographic data of adult …