The past year has been a repetitive tale of challenges and adaptations, as each new wave the pandemic spread across world. One striking feature country or region’s race for ‘safe ground’, including border closures idiosyncratic rules regulations. When going gets tough, everyone seems to revert strategies past, usually involving silos fences. Sometimes, this happens in medicine too. As problems ...

Art, science, mathematics, technology, engineering and medicine became concentrated in silos around the time of the reformation. This both accelerated the disciplines whilst holding back the benefits to be gained from their linking. Today they are coming back together as a much-required force for innovation and understanding at a time when we are being progressively overtaken by vast amounts of...

Screenshots of QPIDMed in Use  Top: Default screen for a patient with pre-populated queries  Middle: Placing mouse over “Code Status” icon reveals all occurrences of code status discussion in patient’s record  Bottom: Highlighting an entry shows full content of that note The Modern-Day EHR  A literal digital translation of the paper chart; info remains stored in chronologically organized si...

Large volumes of heterogeneous health data silos pose a big challenge when exploring for information to allow for evidence based decision making and ensuring quality outcomes. In this paper, we present a proof of concept for adopting data warehousing technology to aggregate and analyse disparate health data in order to understand the impact various lifestyle factors on obesity. We present a pra...

The digital cultural heritage is partly preserved through web archiving activities. The BlogForever platform is a web archiving platform that aims specifically at the preservation of the blogosphere. The focus enables exploitation of the blog structure for sophisticated access capabilities on archived data. However, interoperability among BlogForever archives, as well as with other digital libr...