Patient related health data are typically located at different general practices and hospitals. When processing and analyzing such data, the provided infrastructure and toolset has to take into consideration legal, security and privacy issues. The combination of secure multi-party computations (SMC) algorithms, encryption, public key infrastructure (PKI), certificates, and a certificate authori...

Delivering eHealth in developing countries faces different health and socio-economic challenges to the developed one. But, if a global health infrastructure is to evolve, then developing countries need to play their part. So, whilst the context may differ, the localization-globalization of content issues needs to be jointly addressed. In providing robust and affordable connectivity, particularl...

Local health departments (LHDs) can more effectively develop and strengthen community health partnerships when leaders focus on building partnership collaborative capacity (PCC), including a multisector infrastructure for population health improvement. Using the 2008 National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Profile survey, we constructed an overall measure of LHD PCC co...