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Gather Knowledge in Data Management for Digital Health

In the past month, the coronavirus pandemic influenced all our lives on a daily basis. At the same time, advances of digital health solution become more and more visible. If you are keen to extend your knowledge about data management for digital health, you should have a look at our lecture “Data Management for Digital Health”. We are happy to announce that our lecture in the winter 2020/21 will be open for interested people from all over the globe as an online lecture held in a synchron format. Please feel free to circulate the information and get in touch with us if you have any open questions.

Scope of the lecture

Welcome to the online class: we are very excited that you are interested in learning more about the foundations data management for digital health. A very relevant topic not only in times of worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. In this lecture, we will provide you specific examples from the field of digital health to understand where and how data is acquired, what are the challenges with these specific types of data, and how to handle them with latest technology advances. We will link to latest worldwide developments in fighting the COVID-19 pandemics and provide you with a better understanding of the latest decisions and developments, where applicable. 

After participating in the course, you will be equipped with the ability to:

  • assess requirements of selected real-world use cases from the medical field,
  • select latest technology building blocks to create viable healthcare software solutions, and
  • analyze requirements for data analysis and processing, e.g. for machine learning.

In the course, we will have invited guest speakers sharing their real-world experience with you in a brief presentation. You will also have the chance to raise your questions and discuss with them in the course of the lecture.

Stellen Computer bald bessere Diagnosen?

Vermutlich – vorausgesetzt, wir füttern sie mit den passenden Algorithmen und Daten. Denn sie kombinieren das Wissen von vielen Ärzten. Die Mediziner von morgen werden nicht mehr allein entscheiden müssen, sondern erhalten Unterstützung. So wird es eine Vernetzung zwischen vielen Disziplinen geben, etwa mit Computerexperten, Statistikern und Genetikern.

Continue reading (German version only) in the release of Freie Presse or Sächsische Zeitung.

Join us to understand the “Code of Life”

Back to school to understand the “Code of Life”. We are happy to invite you to “Code of Life”  Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) hosted by openHPI. The course starts on Nov 14, 2016 and is designed as an interactive set of daily lectures followed by tasks. Sign-up for free to attend this unique course and to get your personal exam certificate at the end of the course.

Festival of Genomics 2016 London: Analyze Genomes: Modeling and Executing Genome Data Processing Pipelines (Slides)

The slide deck of the presentation “Analyze Genomes: Modeling and Executing Genome Data Processing Pipelines” of the workshop “Big Medical Data in Precision Medicine: Challenges or Opportunities?” on Jan 19, 2016 in London is online available now.