Questions tagged [healthcare-data]
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Where can I find an up-to-date checklist for HIPAA compliance (extra points for newbie friendly ones)?
I'm not happy with the HIPAA checklists I've found online, I'm looking for something clearer and more comprehensive for beginners.
I've downloaded probably 7 or 8 free HIPAA checklists from HIPAA ...
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Detecting a medical emergency based on the symptoms the patient presents
Are there standard rules or references for deciding whether a patient has a medical emergency, based on the symptoms the patient report? Are those standard rules international?
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Why are diagnostics based on the microbiome so slow to adopt?
Edit 2023/09/06: Many comments so far raise the fact that we can't tell whether there is causation or correlation between an illness and the corresponding microbiome of the patient. My point isn't to ...
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Is there a universal patient id to link individuals across clinical records and clinical studies?
For clinical record management, patients typically assigned an id within a medical center or a clinical study (often along with a national id). A bottleneck in leveraging patient information for large-...
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What constitutes a de-identified patient data in US healthcare?
HIPPA mentions 18 attributes listed here as PHI. Sharing of this data requires certain considerations as outlined by HIPPA. Most importantly data should be de-identified before sharing. As per this ...
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Did the British Medical Journal mislead the public?
Is it true the British Medical Journal mislead the public with an article alleging a whistle blower exposed flaws in the data integrity of the COVID-19 vaccine trials? If so why?
Fact Check: The ...
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Clinical Notes database for research
My research is on extracting diagnoses from clinical notes/reports using Artificial Intelligence.
I am strugling with finding good datasets that has big number of records
I have MIMIC dataset but one ...
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Find full article from PubMed page without any indication?
I understand that PubMed cites articles that are on other sources, so it might not have a direct link to a full article.
The very question I am asking is actually answered in the FAQs of the site, and ...
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Is the day-of-week variance in COVID-19 case numbers a well-established phenomenon?
Right now (April 27), the JHU data on new COVID-19 cases in the US show a very distinct weekly rhythm; reports are lowest on the weekends and peak in mid-week. This isn't at all surprising — any ...
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What diseases can be identified by some defined algorithm?
I'm looking for some examples about diseases that can be identified by some equations? I mean something like, that if some person have this overweight, this age, these medical findings that means that ...
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ECDC/PHE covid data clash
12 April's new daily confirmed cases for UK seem to be dramatically different:
ECDC says 8719 (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-cases-covid-19?country=GBR), while
PHE says 84279-78991=5288 (...
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What fraction health care workers contract COVID-19?
What fraction of health care workers contract COVID-19? Does anyone know of empirical evidence? Ideally, I’m looking for a reference to a study involving type of work, e.g., ER in close contact vs. ...
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How extensive is the US Govt machine readable dataset on covid-19
How extensive is the US Govt machine readable dataset on covid-19 and where can I find this data?
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Technology prospects for genome sequencing at home and data protection
Ever since the end of the Human Genome project we have been witnessing the steady advance of genome sequencing technology and the decline of the price required to perform it. This lead to the advent ...
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Maternal Mortality Ratio without healthcare
What is an estimation of Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR, number of mother death per 100000 births) without professional healthcare? In other words, how often women die during childbirth in some wild ...
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