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Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Health Data for Research and Education

The inability to share private health data can severely stifle research and innovation in health informatics. Studies based on unpublished electronic medical record (EMR) data cannot be reproduced, thus future researchers are not able to use them to develop and compare new research. This contributes to the reproduciblity crisis in biomedical research. Making open data available for research can spur innovation and research. The public Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care datasets, MIMIC-II and MIMIC-III, are widely used with over 2000 citations reported in Google Scholar in March 2020. But since MIMIC-II and MIMIC-III focus on Intensive Care Unit patients in Boston hospitals, the resulting research may be biased and have limited generalization. The cost and time required, along with re-identification risk concerns make de-identification only a partial solution to this problem.

Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Health Data for Research and Education

The inability to share private health data can severely stifle research and innovation in health informatics. Studies based on unpublished electronic medical record (EMR) data cannot be reproduced, thus future researchers are not able to use them to develop and compare new research. This contributes to the reproduciblity crisis in biomedical research. Making open data available for research can spur innovation and research.

Thilanka Munasinghe

I'm developing Quantum Machine Learning applications using the RPI's 127-qubits IBM Quantum System One quantum computer.

From 2018-2024, I was a lecturer at the Information Technology & Web Science, where I developed and taught both graduate-level and undergraduate-level Data Science, Data Analytics, and Xinformatics (Informatics) courses, and the Web-Systems undergraduate course. 

Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects Final Review: COVIDMINDER (20 Aug 2020)

Please join us for a final review of our IDEA Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects. During this half-hour our students presented their Summer 2020 work on COVIDMINDER, Data INCITE's COVID monitoring application (initiated in early 2020).

NOTE: Recording of these group presentations were split into two half-hour recordings.

Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects Final Review: COVID WarRoom/COVID Back-to-School (20 Aug 2020)

Please join us for a final review of our IDEA Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects. During this half-hour our students presented their Summer 2020 work on the COVID WarRoom and COVID Back-to-School predictive modelling apps.

NOTE: Recording of these group presentations were split into two half-hour recordings.

Health INCITE COVID Summer Projects Final Review: COVID Twitter (20 Aug 2020)

In this exploratory study, we scrutinize a database of over 1 million tweets collected across the first five months of 2020 to draw conclusions about public attitudes towards the preventative measure of mask usage during the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent months, a body of literature has emerged to suggest the robustness of trends in online activity as proxies for the epidemiological and sociological impact of COVID-19.

Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects Final Review: De Densification (19 Aug 2020)

Please join us for a final review of our IDEA Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects. During this hour our students presented their Summer 2020 work on campus "de-densification" and WiFi monitoring, including building and campus flow, classroom occupancy, and "SafeStudent" applications.

NOTE: Recording of these group presentations were split into two half-hour recordings.

Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects Final Review: WiFi Monitoring (19 Aug 2020)

Please join us for a final review of our IDEA Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects. During this hour our students presented their Summer 2020 work on campus "de-densification" and WiFi monitoring, including building and campus flow, classroom occupancy, and "SafeStudent" applications.

NOTE: Recording of these group presentations were split into two half-hour recordings.

COVIDMINDER Web Application

John Erickson, of the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI), is the lead engineer of COVIDMINDER--a graph and map-based visualization tool for COVID-19 statistics across the nation, by state and by county, with daily updates. COVIDMINDER is an outgrowth from MORTALITYMINDER which graphs and maps the demographics of mortality disparities. These projects are under the Health INCITE program at RPI with Dr. Kristen Bennett, and is funded by the United Health Foundation.

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