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Digital Inclusion is a Social Determinant of Health

WEBDigital literacies and internet connectivity have been called the “super social determinants of health” because they encompass all other social determinants of health

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Google DeepMind and healthcare in an age of algorithms

WEBJulia Powles and Hal Hodson in Health and Technology: “ Data-driven tools and techniques, particularly machine learning methods that underpin artificial …

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AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, …

WEBAI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health. Curated on February 5, 2024 by Stefaan Verhulst. Book by Juan M. Lavista Ferres, and …

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health – The Living Library

WEBArticle by Jessica Nix: “The World Health Organization is wading into the world of AI to provide basic health information through a human-like avatar. But while …

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Addressing bias in big data and AI for health care: A call for open

WEBPaper by Natalia Norori et al: “Bias in the medical field can be dissected along with three directions: data-driven, algorithmic, and human.Bias in AI algorithms for …

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Health Data Privacy under the GDPR: Big Data

WEBBook edited by Maria Tzanou: “The growth of data collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting …

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The Patient, Data Protection and Changing Healthcare Models

WEBBook by Griet Verhenneman on The Impact of e-Health on Informed Consent, Anonymisation and Purpose Limitation: “Healthcare is changing. It is moving to …

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Governance of artificial intelligence and personal health …

WEBJenifer Sunrise Winter in Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance: “This paper aims to assess the increasing challenges to governing the personal health …

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The Open-Source Movement Comes to Medical Datasets

WEBBlog by Edmund L. Andrews: “In a move to democratize research on artificial intelligence and medicine, Stanford’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine …

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Why Policymakers Should Care About “Big Data” in Healthcare

WEBDavid W. Bates et al at Health Policy and Technology: “The term “big data” has gotten increasing popular attention, and there is growing focus on how such data …

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How Behavioral Economics Can Produce Better Health Care

WEBDhruv Khullar in the New York Times: “…We in the medical community have only recently started to explore how behavioral economics can improve health. As with …

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How NFTs could transform health information exchange

WEBPaper by Kristin Kostick-Quenet et al: “Personal (sometimes called “protected”) health information (PHI) is highly valued and will become centrally …

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Health Data Governance: Privacy, Monitoring and Research

WEBOECD publishing: “All countries are investing in health data, however; there are significant cross-country differences in data availability and use.Some countries …

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Hospitals Give Tech Giants Access to Detailed Medical Records

WEBMelanie Evans at the Wall Street Journal: “Hospitals have granted Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines and Amazon.com Inc. the ability to access …

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Public health, disaster recovery and social media

WEBJanice Jacobs: “Increasingly, social media is playing a key role in helping to ease the heavy burden of these tragedies by connecting individuals and communities …

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Urban Exposures: How Cell Phone Data Helps Us Better …

WEBSenseable City Lab: “Global urbanization has led to one of the world’s most pressing environmental health concerns: the increasing number of people contributing …

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Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on …

WEBRob Copeland at Wall Street Journal: “Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed …

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How artificial intelligence is transforming the world

WEBDespite its widespread lack of familiarity, AI is a technology that is transforming every walk of life. It is a wide-ranging tool that enables people to rethink …

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What you don’t know about your health data will make you sick

WEBJeanette Beebe at Fast Company: “Every time you shuffle through a line at the pharmacy, every time you try to get comfortable in those awkward doctor’s office …

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Designing an Active, Healthier City – The Living Library

WEBMeera Senthilingam in the New York Times: “Despite a firm reputation for being walkers, New Yorkers have an obesity epidemic on their hands.Lee Altman, a …

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NYC’s New Tech to Track Every Homeless Person in the City

WEBWired: "New York is facing a crisis. The city that never sleeps has become the city with the most people who have no home to sleep in. As rising rents outpace …

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What statistics can and can’t tell us about ourselves

WEBHannah Fry at The New Yorker: “Harold Eddleston, a seventy-seven-year-old from Greater Manchester, was still reeling from a cancer diagnosis he had been given …

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