Findings from City University of London Has Provided New Data on Information and Data Analytics (A Modelling Framework for Evidence-based Public Health Policy Making): Information Technology – Information and Data Analytics

2022 JUN 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Research findings on Information Technology - Information and Data Analytics are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting originating in London, United Kingdom, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “It is widely recognised that the process of public health policy making (i.e., the analysis, action plan design, execution, monitoring and evaluation of public health policies) should be evidenced based, and supported by data analytics and decision-making tools tailored to it. This is because the management of health conditions and their consequences at a public health policy making level can benefit from such type of analysis of heterogeneous data, including health care devices usage, physiological, cognitive, clinical and medication, personal, behavioural, lifestyle data, occupational and environmental data.”

Funders for this research include European Commission, European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the City University of London, “In this paper we present a novel approach to public health policy making in a form of an ontology, and an integrated platform for realising this approach. Our solution is model-driven and makes use of big data analytics technology. More specifically, it is based on public health policy decision making (PHPDM) models that steer the public health policy decision making process by defining the data that need to be collected, the ways in which they should be analysed in order to produce the evidence useful for public health policymaking, how this evidence may support or contradict various policy interventions (actions), and the stakeholders involved in the decision-making process.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The resulted web-based platform has been implemented using Hadoop, Spark and HBASE, developed in the context of a research programme on public health policy making for the management of hearing loss called EVOTION, funded by the Horizon 2020.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: A Modelling Framework for Evidence-based Public Health Policy Making. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2022;26(5):2388-2399. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics can be contacted at: Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855-4141, USA.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Marios Prasinos, City University of London, London EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom. Additional authors for this research include Ioannis Basdekis, George Spanoudakis, Marco Anisetti, Ernesto Damiani and Dimitrios Koutsouris.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2022.3142503. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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