Sessions at OpenTech 2010 about Health
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Saturday 11th September 2010
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2C: Feedback for Emergency Doctors
Two databases were queried to create individualized reports for junior Emergency Doctors on their diagnostic accuracy. I discuss the need for information system innovation in Health Care, difficulties setting stuff up in the NHS, and experience of a project to give feedback to Emergency Doctors.
http://www.medicdojo.com -
2A: Open Data in Clinical Trials
by Louise Crow and Ben Goldacre
Pharmaceutical companies running clinical trials are increasingly being required to register them in one or more databases. Once the trials are finished, the results ought to be published in medical journals, but there is little incentive to publish negative data, for example from trials that were terminated early due to poor drug performance or dangerous side effects. These results may quietly disappear, leading to unrealistic estimates of the effectiveness of drugs and poorer medical decisions. This talk introduces a project headed by Ben Goldacre, currently at the prototype stage, aiming to encourage publication of clinical trial data by combining information from the different trial repositories in one publicly accessible website, crosschecked with publications. This would allow the identification of trials with no published results, making these absent data points publicly visible.
http://github.com/crowbot/trials
