Tagged: health data

More Evidence that Elimination is the Best COVID-19 Control Strategy for Health and the Economy - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Apr 12, 2021 •

• COVID-19,
• elimination,
• health data,
• New Zealand stories

Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Jennifer Summers, Prof Michael Baker In this blog we briefly consider a new Report from a European think tank that aims to identify an optimal COVID-19 response strategy. It considers mortality data, GDP impacts, and mobility data and suggests that COVID-19 elimination appears to be superior to mitigation/suppression strategies in health and economic terms. Nevertheless, more … Read More

Capitalising on NZ’s linked data by increasing IT and researcher capacity: Opportunity is knocking - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Jun 19, 2018 •

• health data,
• Integrated Data Infrastructure,
• national datasets,
• Statistics NZ

Tony Blakely, Andrea Teng, Sheree Gibb, Nhung Nghiem, Barry Milne, Andrew Sporle, Gabrielle Davies, Nevil Pierce, Ruth Cunningham, and on behalf of the Virtual Health Information Network A key strategic advantage for NZ and research is our national routinely-collected datasets.  This can generate new knowledge in academia, service delivery and policy.  Conversely, NZ has some key barriers to … Read More

Our healthcare records outlive us. It’s time to decide what happens to the data once we’re gone. - Guest Work

Guest Author • Aug 07, 2017 •

• Big Data,
• death,
• health data,
• health records,
• healthcare records,
• social licence

By Jon Cornwall, Victoria University of Wellington Death is inevitable. The creation of healthcare records about every complaint and ailment we seek treatment for is also a near-certainty. Data about patients is a vital cog in the provision of efficient health services. Our study explores what happens to those healthcare records after you die. We focus on … Read More

Open data, transparency and power – role of the Virtual Health Information Network - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Jun 14, 2017 •

• Big Data,
• Data,
• health data,
• IDI,
• Integrated Data Infrastructure,
• privacy,
• public health,
• VHIN,
• Virtual Health Information Network

Dr Andrea Teng, Dr Barry Milne, Mr Philip Walker, Prof Tony Blakely The NZ Government is showing strong leadership on data sharing. In this blog we describe some of the opportunities and the challenges in this new data environment. We focus on how the Virtual Health Information Network (VHIN) can contribute to stronger health research and therefore benefit the health … Read More