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3 Methodological Considerations of New Communications Platforms
3 Methodological Considerations of New Communications Platforms
Pages 17-24
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COMPUTING POWER AND SPEED OF TRANSMISSION Today's technology is characterized by an increasingly rapid transmission of information and large datasets that can be stored and mined. Speaker and planning committee member Jody Ranck of the Public Health Institute discussed the effect of more pervasive computing power.
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is a text messaging data application for phone, Web, or mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between fixed line or mobile phone devices.
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Dr. Ranck also mentioned the work of Deborah Estrin at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Ida Sim at the University of California, San Francisco, to create an open mHealth structure that can allow many new applications that cross data silos.
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It will be important to consider possible downsides and unintended consequences and to think about ways to protect against them. Public health prevention successes over the past century depended upon huge social change, and ICTs can be used to accelerate change.
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He suggested that the rewards in health care go to those who publish papers and post new information on the Internet rather than those who improve and scale up existing projects. One exception is Johns Hopkins University where successful improvements or the scaling up of a project is given equal weight with publications of original discovery in prestigious journals when determining academic advancement.
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An interesting example of the power of big data concerns Camden, New Jersey, medical billing records. A physician analyzed 8 years' worth of medical billing records in Camden, which included shootings and homicides.
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Several existing platforms spaces, including InnoCentive and Science Commons, deal with biomedical issues, but it would also be useful to have data commons and innovation for social and behavioral sciences. Addressing the Digital Divide Panelist Michele Moloney-Kitts of Together for Girls pointed out that if sexual violence data were publicized the same way that data on infectious diseases are, the effect would galvanize action.
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Speaker and Forum member XinQi Dong of the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging works with the elderly, where the most vulnerable to abuse are cognitively or physically impaired, socially isolated, and have mental health problems, and he stressed the need to adapt technology so that these vulnerable people can access and use it. Forum co-chair Jacquelyn Campbell of Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing brought up the challenge of making not only phones but also the ongoing cost of phone minutes affordable for poor women.
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