New Approach to Privacy-Preserving Clinical Decision Support Systems for HIV Treatment

BackgroundHIV treatment prescription is a complex process. Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are a category of health information technologies that can assist clinicians to choose optimal treatments based on clinical trials and expert knowledge. The usability of some CDSSs for HIV treatment would be significantly improved by using the...

Privacy-preserving dataset combination and Lasso regression for healthcare predictions

Background: Recent developments in machine learning have shown its potential impact for clinical use such as risk prediction, prognosis, and treatment selection. However, relevant data are often scattered across diferent stakehold ers and their use is regulated, e.g. by GDPR or HIPAA. As a concrete use-case, hospital Erasmus MC and health...

Do European Union countries adequately address the healthcare needs of adolescents in the area of sexual reproductive health and rights?

Background and objectives Adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are of particular relevance given their potential short-term or long-term health consequences. This study evaluates recommendations and policies regarding access to care in this area in 31 European countries (European Union (EU) plus Iceland, Norway and...

Primary care in five European countries: A citizens’ perspective on the quality of care for children

Objective. As part of the Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project, this study aimed to answer the following research questions: 1) How do European citizens perceive the quality of primary health care provided for children? And 2) What are their priorities with respect to quality assessment of primary health care aimed at satisfying...

Indicators of malicious SSL connections

Internet applications use SSL to provide data confidentiality to communicating entities. The use of encryption in SSL makes it impossible to distinguish between benign and malicious connections as the content cannot be inspected. Therefore, we propose and evaluate a set of indicators for malicious SSL connections, which is based on the...

Security for ICT collaboration tools

In order for collaboration tools to be productive in an operational setting, an information base that is shared across the collaborating parties is needed. Therefore, a lot of research is done for tooling to create such a common information base in a collaboration tool. However, security is often not given a lot of attention. In this paper we...

Security for ICT collaboration tools

In order for collaboration tools to be productive in an operational setting, an information base that is shared across the collaborating parties is needed. Therefore, a lot of research is done for tooling to create such a common information base in a collaboration tool. However, security is often not given a lot of attention. In this paper we...

Patient satisfaction with occupational health physicians, development of a questionnaire

Aims: To develop a questionnaire that measures specific aspects of patient satisfaction with occupational health physicians. Methods: General patient satisfaction questionnaires, a literature survey, and interviews with patients were used. An initial questionnaire was distributed among sick listed patients (n = 432) of occupational physicians (n...

Perinatale registratie: Een proefonderzoek naar koppeling gegevens uit de Landelijke Verloskunde Registratie en de Landelijke Neonatalogie Registratie [Linking Dutch Perinatal Registration Systems]