Public Libraries - The unsung heroes of public health
Did you know that public libraries play a vital role in promoting public health and supporting vulnerable communities? Well it’s true, they offer a wealth of resources, services, and programs that contribute to the well-being of individuals…
The Rise of Open Source in Public Health Technology: 5 Trends
Open source technology offers public authorities a pathway to more agile, collaborative, and timely innovation. As we wrote a few weeks ago, technology innovation in public health lags behind medical innovation. Given pressing issues like COVID-19…
Harnessing Apps to Improve Coordinated Care Among the Housing Insecure
Open source technology offers public authorities a pathway to more agile, collaborative, and timely innovation. As we wrote a few weeks ago, technology innovation in public health lags behind medical innovation. Given pressing issues like COVI…
Expanding Health, not just Healthcare through Open Source Technology
The past few decades have seen remarkable advances in medicine driven largely by emerging technologies. From robotic surgery and 3D printing of medical devices to gene editing, telemedicine, and artificial intelligence (AI)…
Bridging Healthcare Gaps for Vulnerable Populations with Nostr for Health
Improving access and coordination of care for vulnerable populations is essential for promoting health equity, improving health outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and ensuring that all individuals receive the care and support…
Preserving Health Security: ProMED's Struggle Threatens Public Health
In a world that's become increasingly interconnected, the rapid spread of infectious diseases has emerged as a significant global challenge. From the devastating impact of the Ebola virus to the more recent COVID-19 pandemic, the need for timely…
Decentralizing Medical Data with Nostr and FHIR: A developer’s deep dive
Data has become a critical component of modern healthcare. The availability of patient data is crucial to providing quality care, managing patient privacy and safety, and promoting patient engagement. Yet, the accessibility of medical data…
Welcoming New DICE Chair, Dr. Bouchra Nasri
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Bouchra Nasri, Ph.D. as chair of PathCheck's Data Informatics Center for Epidemiology (DICE). As chair, Dr. Nasri will be focused on building DICE's data research to inform open source, digital…
Nosh: Nostr and Sharing Health Data
Today, if you want to share your electronic medical records (EMRs) with different doctors or healthcare systems, either domestically or internationally, you have to log in to a portal, download your data and then send it to them either through…
The EMR Revolution will not be Televised
The development of Digital Identification Documents (DIDs) under WHO SMART Guidelines are quietly ushering in a sea change for how Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are stored and accessed. Building upon HL7’s Fast Healthcare…
Healthcare CEO Joins PathCheck’s Board of Directors
PathCheck Foundation announces the election of Kristen Valdes, Founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health to its Board of Directors.
PathCheck Foundation Announces Creation of New flagship Mobile Application
PathCheck Foundation is pleased to announce the development of its new flagship application to support novel disease surveillance.
Reimagining Exposure Notifications Apps for Broader Public Engagement
PathCheck Foundation has been hard at work developing an open framework again for not only exposure notifications that can be used for more than just COVID-19, but also for crowdsourcing syndromic surveillance in general.
So, what exactly is “NoPeek” Privacy?
NoPeek Privacy eliminates the ability for consumer data to be stored in one spot (because the personal data actually lives on an individual’s cell phone) as well as the temptation to use or sell data for other purposes.
The Promise of Digital Health: Then, Now, and the Future
Revolutionary advances in digital health are transforming health, medicine, and biomedical science. Technological developments such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, digitally mediated diagnostics…
Early Detection of Health Crises
Are health crises coming around even faster, like veritable disease hurricanes driven by climate change, or is early detection and signal validation just getting better?
A call for citizen science in pandemic preparedness and response: beyond data collection
Critical research focus is trust-building among the stakeholders like clinicians, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and general citizens who are interdependent in the response to a pandemic, as well as providing direct and efficient channels of communication with communities immediately impacted by the epidemic
The Global Health Innovators Seminar #19 - Dr. Michiel Niesen (Nference)
This episode focuses on the collaboration work between Nference and the Mayo Clinic entitled Surveillance for Covid-19 Vaccine Using Electronic Health Record Data.
The Institute for Technology & Global Health hosts Inaugural Event
The inaugural Change.Enabled conference, hosted by the Institute for Technology & Global Health at PathCheck Foundation, took place last Friday, June 24th in New York City.