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As part of Erasmus University's study on the uptake of big data technologies in healthcare within the BigMedilytics project, interviews with the pilot project leaders and group interviews with the twelve project teams about their experience in the project were also held. In the second video...

Lung cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer, after female breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers. According to the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service, it affects around 318,000 people in the European Union (11.9% of all diagnosed cancers) and...

In the BigMedilytics project, the Erasmus University studied the uptake of big data innovations in healthcare. As a result, the best big data technology and healthcare policy practices have been defined covering aspects such as big data policy, new business models, regulations, and technology components. To...

When handling personal data – for research or when targeted at decision-support systems – there are clearly important considerations. These include data protection, of course. Since the adoption of the GDPR across Europe, it has been very clear what the rights of data subjects and...

A large number of medical equipment and devices are used daily by clinicians, nurses, and other hospital staff with a lack of location tracking. Mobile equipment is for example lent to another department and not returned or its location is changed to assure its availability...

The Spanish Agency of Data Protection (AEPD) has awarded the initiative HealthData 29 that facilitates the sharing of health data for research, whose legal design has been inspired by the outstanding work developed in BigMedilytics by Professor Ricard Martínez, director of the Universitat de València...