“MappyHealth mines twitter data looking for health term trends. It is hypothesized that social data could be a predictor to outbreaks of disease. We track disease terms and associated qualifiers to present these social trends. We have found that every term and condition trend tracked on our site has a band of social noise. This social noise is the everyday ebb and flow of tweets associated with a certain term. Spikes in volume and duration signal events that occur related to these terms. These events could be both positive and negative. MappyHealth seeks to foster awareness of these spikes through various mapping and analytical views.”
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Daily Archives: January 26, 2013
CDT: Feds Boost Privacy Protections for Medical Records
CDT: “The privacy protections guarding the care and handling of your medical records just got stronger a lot stronger. The new rules bolster prohibitions against use of a patient’s medical records without consent for marketing communications; extend federal privacy and security protections to contractors (and subcontractors) of doctors, hospitals and insurers; improved your right to… Continue Reading
"Carnegie Mellon researchers devise grammar-aware password cracker"
News release: “When writing or speaking, good grammar helps people make themselves be understood. But when used to concoct a long computer password, grammar good or bad provides crucial hints that can help someone crack that password, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated. A team led by Ashwini Rao, a software engineering… Continue Reading
LA Times – Inauguration 2013: Richard Blanco's poem captures nation's hope, unease
LA Times: “In about 550 words, Richard Blancos inaugural poem created a metaphorical country and took it through the journey of a metaphorical day. One Today was an intimate and sweeping celebration of our shared, single identity as a people, and Blanco recited it in a voice that was both confident and tenderly soft-spoken. Blanco… Continue Reading
The Public's Policy Agenda for the 113th Congress
“As the 113th Congress is sworn in, and President Barack Obama begins his second term of office, a comprehensive new Kaiser Family Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey queried the public about their priorities for, and views on, a wide range of health and health policy issues. These include issues that will… Continue Reading
JSTOR offers free online reading access to the archives of 1,200 of the worlds most prominent journals
“JSTOR, the not-for-profit digital library of thousands of academic journals and other content, announced [January 9, 2013] that the archives of more than 1,200 journals are now available for limited reading by the public. This is part of a major expansion of JSTORs experimental program Register & Read, in which people can sign up for… Continue Reading
Working Group on the Use of Chimpanzees in NIH-Supported Research Report
Council of Councils Working Group on the Use of Chimpanzees in NIH-Supported Research Report, January 2013 “This report summarizes the findings and recommendations of the Working Group on the Use of Chimpanzees in National Institutes of Health (NIH)-Supported Research. The NIH formed this committee within the Council of Councils, a federal advisory committee, to advise… Continue Reading
