A Large-Scale Initiative Inviting Patients to Share Personal Fitness Tracker Data with Their Providers: Initial Results

A Large-Scale Initiative Inviting Patients to Share Personal Fitness Tracker Data with Their Providers: Initial Results

BACKGROUND Personal fitness trackers (PFT) have substantial potential to improve healthcare. OBJECTIVE To quantify and characterize early adopters who shared their PFT data with providers. METHODS We used bivariate statistics and logistic regression to compare patients who shared any PFT data vs. patients who did not. RESULTS A patient portal was used to invite 79,953 registered portal us...

Towards Large-Scale Conflict Resolution: Initial Results

With the increasing interest in distributed and collaborative multi-agent applications, conflict resolution in largescale systems becomes an important problem. Our approach to collaborative conflict resolution is based on argumentation. To understand the feasibility and the scope of the approach, we first implemented the process in a system called CONSA and applied it to two complex, dynamic do...

Quenching Time for a Nonlocal Diffusion Problem with Large Initial Data

A Method for Target Setting with Share Data

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical programming technique for evaluatingthe relative efficiency of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs) and can also be utilized forsetting target. Target setting is one of the important subjects since according to its resultsefficiency can be increased. An important issue to be currently discussed, is to set targetwhile considering share data. The...

On the Trusted Use of Large-Scale Personal Data

Large-scale personal data has become the new oil of the Internet. However, personal data tend to be monopolized and siloed by online services which not only impedes beneficial uses but also prevents users from managing the risks associated with their data. While there is substantial legal and social policy scholarship concerning ownership and fair use of personal data, a pragmatic technical sol...