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Epidemiology requires large-scale, high-resolution, representative population data sets; data extracted from electronic health record systems meets these criteria. However, within the UK, there is no single electronic health record, and the record of a patient's healthcare is fragmented over multiple systems and multiple organizations. In the SHORE project we have developed a proof of concept system...
New technologies help epidemiologists model the socioeconomic context of disease outbreaks. Epidemiologists and computer scientists are developing new data-driven, high-performance-computing-powered inference engines to model the socioeconomic context and strategies necessary to counter disease outbreaks.
Cancer is caused by a variety of factors whose study requires a large amount of data. Compiling these data is an expensive and time-consuming task which can be carried out in a better way with the support of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). However, most epidemiologic studies take place without this support of informatics or with basic tools that are developed by unqualified professionals...
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