Quo vadis blockchain in health and healthcare?
You may be familiar with blockchain as the technology powering bitcoin cryptocurrency. But blockchain's potential goes far beyond this, with… Read more »
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Controlling epidemics using mobile phone data
Mobile data can be (and has been) used to study a vast number of subjects related to human behavior. One of its potential applications is on… Read more »
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A good night in spaceflight
After a long day of work, nothing is better than lying in bed. But what if you are living in a spacecraft without gravity? There… Read more »
Facing the data avalanche in Science and Healthcare
Vast amounts of data are collected every day from all aspects of people's lives. The recent field of network science aims to… Read more »
Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
Research published today in EPJ Data Science finds that early-warning signs of depression can be detected in Instagram posts… Read more »
Technology of sleep monitoring… consumer beware!
In contrast to gold standard medical sleep monitoring, which entails a full night of monitoring in a lab and hours of specialist… Read more »
Are your tweets feeling well? Opinion and emotion in tweets change when you get sick
Can we tell if a person is physically ill by the way they tweet? On a recently published article in the journal EPJ Data Science,… Read more »
The use of social networks associated with increased computer literacy skills in adolescents
It's a widely held view that adolescents spend far too much time communicating with peers on their smartphones. However, new… Read more »
Web or app: What’s best for your mobile behavioral intervention?
As the world becomes more mobile, so do the ways we reach people to help them improve their health. In this blog, based on our… Read more »
The Internet of Things and the Health of People
Guest blogger Julie Potyraj discusses 'The Internet of Things' and how we can harness it to improve our healthcare.