article thumbnail

New Software Development Initiatives Lead To Second Stage Of Big Data

Smart Data Collective

Whether it’s in the banking sector, health, communication, marketing, or entertainment, Big Data has permeated every aspect of our daily lives. Each one of us contributes towards the generation of data in the form of images, videos, text messages, documents, emails and so much. Role of Software Development in Big Data.

article thumbnail

Public health has a language problem

Public Healthy

For those of you working in public health, I bet you won’t be particularly surprised if I told you that I’d come across phrases including “proactively maximize multidisciplinary ideas” and “intrinsically harness professional methodologies” in a strategy document, would you? I’m certain you’ve read similar elsewhere.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Mission pharmacy program plagued by high turnover, staffing shortage

NC Health News

According to internal documents and emails obtained by The Watchdog, along with interviews with multiple employees, little was done in 2023 and 2024 to keep staff on the hospitals medication reconciliation team. 27, 2024, email. This prompted Leone to email Jones, Lott, and Dresback on May 14.

article thumbnail

Pictures of health: Photos help East Point show community’s challenges, but also joys

HEALTHBEAT

This moment was captured as part of an exhibit on how residents view community health. Photovoice uses photography and storytelling rather than the typical public health methods that use statistics and surveillance. Photovoice is a way to give the community an opportunity to speak,” Douglas said.

article thumbnail

Data and communication are gold

Your Local Epidemiologist

Federal agencies can’t just “Control+F” their websites and swap out words like “pregnant person” for “pregnant woman” in thousands of documents. Researchers depend on clean, unaltered datasets to improve Americans’ health meaningfully instead of throwing spaghetti at a wall.

article thumbnail

Trump’s data purge: What to know about federal infectious disease sites

Association of Health Care Journalists

Although things will continue to be in flux, heres a broad overview of what we know and dont know and where you can get certain data or documents no longer on the CDC site or that may go missing again. If the VIS sheets disappear again, they are all available at Immunize.org (along with a wealth of other vaccine documents and info).