For those who are working at home or can’t get into university/college for health informatics studies, I thought I would share some papers for discussion as a “virtual journal club” on the forum. The first paper is called “The Magic of Randomization versus the Myth of Real-World Evidence” by Rory
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This e-seminar is a review of the WHO Guidelines on Digital Health: Process and Next Steps by Prof Alain Labrique and Dr Smisha Agarwal from Johns Hopkins University. Presenters: Dr Alain Labrique is an infectious disease epidemiologist, community trialist and a globally recognized leader in the application of information and
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Using text messaging to extend diabetes self management support outside the clinic environment Innovative interventions are needed to address the growing burden of diabetes and associated costly and debilitating long-term complications. This seminar will present the evidence for a text message based diabetes self-management support programme for people with poorly
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Dr Niall Winters, Associate Professor, University of Oxford This talk focuses on how mobile technologies can support the training and supervision of CHWs in LMICs, drawing on empirical work in Kenya and Uganda. Dr Winters examines on-going research into how the latest advances in artificial intelligence may be leveraged to
Continue readingOpen Source EHRs and Open Standards in Healthcare
A couple of months ago, we held a Digital Health Oxford event on Open Source Electronic Health Records systems and Open Standards in Healthcare at the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University. We had four great speakers who shared their knowledge and experience about Open Source EHR systems and the use
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