Transcriptomics Research to Improve Cardiovascular Healthcare

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics

Transcriptomics and micronutrient research.

This review examines the extent to which transcriptomic methods have lived up to their promise in the context of nutrition research, placing particular emphasis on examples from micronutrient research. A case is made that the high quality platform technologies now available, together with established standards and systems for data storage and exchange and powerful new methods of data analysis, ...

Strategies to Improve Healthcare Websites

Healthcare websites that are influential in healthcare decision-making must be evaluated for accuracy, readability and understandability by the average population. Most existing frameworks for designing and evaluating interactive websites focus on the utility and usability of the site. Although these are significant to the design of the basic site, they are not sufficient. We have developed an ...

The Cardiovascular Health in Ambulatory Care Research Team (CANHEART): using big data to measure and improve cardiovascular health and healthcare services.

BACKGROUND The CArdiovascular HEalth in Ambulatory care Research Team (CANHEART) is conducting a unique, population-based observational research initiative aimed at measuring and improving cardiovascular health and the quality of ambulatory cardiovascular care provided in Ontario, Canada. A particular focus will be on identifying opportunities to improve the primary and secondary prevention of ...

How to improve data and knowledge management to better integrate healthcare and research

Montserrat Cases*, Laura I. Furlong*, Joan Albanell, Russ B. Altman, Riccardo Bellazzi, Scott Boyer, Angela Brand, Anthony J. Brookes, Søren Brunak, Timothy W. Clark, Joaquim Gea, Peter Ghazal, Norbert Graf, Roderic Guigó, Teri E. Klein, Núria López-Bigas, Víctor Maojo, Barend Mons, Mark Musen, José L. Oliveira, Anthony Rowe, Patrick Ruch, Amnon Shabo (Shvo), Edward H. Shortliffe, Alfonso Valen...