Public Libraries - The unsung heroes of public health
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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…

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The Rise of Open Source in Public Health Technology: 5 Trends
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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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?

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