1. GEOHEALTH
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC HEALTH, TECHNOLOGY AND
GEOINFORMATICS
6 NOVEMBER 2015
Center eHealth& Wellbeing
Research
Dept Psychology, Health &
Technology
Faculty of Behavioural,
Management & Social Sciences
Prof. dr. Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen

2.  eHealth vision, challenges to improve health with technology
 GeoHealth: Synergy through Combinations
 Research
 Education
 Food for Thoughts
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eHealth &GeoHealth
INTRODUCTION

3. eHealth, refers to a way of thinking on how to improve, transform healthcare
and how technology can support this
Challenges to improve, transform healthcare:
Technology to create infrastructures for change
Technology to personalize healthcare services
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EHEALTH VISION
USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTH CARE

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Challenge: Smart environments

5. Challenge: Data-Driven Society

6. Challenge: Algorithmic Revolution
What are the hopes, challenges and dangers?
Volume, Velocity,
Variety, Veracity,
Value of Data
How to use data in a meaningful way?

7. Personalized Healthcare

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Holistic-Concepts
linking environmental,
health,technical, social sciences
GeoHealth Care systems
Data Driven Services
Ensure safety, health, wellbeing,
Promote Self-Organization
A view on Geohealth…………..

9. • Real-Time Geospatial data: people, location, time and health
• Effective use of geospatial data and digital epidemiology to
monitor and predict risks to ensure a healthy living and
• to develop tailored, local based intervention to support decision
making
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GEOHEALTH
TOPICS RESEARCH: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

10. • Context: UN Sustainable Development Goals 2015
• Territorial Synergy
 Food& water& health (safe care, self-organisation, decentralisation)
• System Synergy (geohealth care systems, healthy lives)
• Infection prevention & control
• One Health (med-vet-public health)
• Quantified Self
• New ideas..
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GEOHEALTH: SYNERGY TROUGH COMBINATIONS
IMPROVING HEALTH CARE

11.  eHealth platform for Infection prevention & control (AMR)
 One Health platform cooperation human-animal-public health
(zoonotics)
 GeoInformatics: Digital Surveillance; Geospatial data to predict
Outbreaks
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http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/drugresistanceglobalhealth/drug_resistance_by_disease
• Urbanization
• Pollution
• Demographic Change
• Migration
• Lifestyle patterns
• Food & Agriculture
• Trade (low prizes, easy access)
• Inappropriate and irrational use of
medicines (hospitals, community,
agriculture)
Geo Health to fight Superbugs & AMR

13. OUTBREAK MANAGEMENT: Acinetobacter Baumanni
Mobile IC MST
Enschede, 2008
Digital surveillance to prevent Outbreaks, to tailor interventions

14. Patient
Mobility &
Infections
Tailored
Information
via
Rapid risk
assessments

15. INFODEMIOLOGY: real time surveillance using Twitter
A Case Study of the New York City 2012-2013 Influenza Season With Daily Geocoded Twitter
Data From Temporal and Spatiotemporal Perspectives,
J Med Internet Res 2014;16(10):e236)

16. GeoHealth:
mHealth, dataplatforms, geographic info systems
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17. eZoon Platform; Learning environment
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Geoinformatics to develop adaptive online question-answering services to
inform public (Q&A database Germany, Netherlands)
Geodata for real time decision support (e.g, MRSA; avian influenza);
Game-based simulations to train decision making

18. GeoHealth for accurate, timely, tailored information
• timely reporting, investigation, and response to outbreaks
• real-time monitoring capability
• generation of automated feedback
• improved interoperability; standardization and portability
• reduced system costs
• Advanced analytics to predict outbreaks
• information can be more easily stored, accessed and tailored

19. Data Driven Services for personalized healthcare
 Unobtrusive life–tracking
 Quantified Holistic Self
 Geohealth: analytics, visualisations
 Disruptive innovation, new business models
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20. Predictive modelling for personalized healthcare
 ability to use technology to better measure, aggregate, and make
sense of previously hard-to-obtain or non-existent behavioral,
psychosocial, and biometric data.
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21. Food For Thoughts
 Integration of (mobile) tech with data-platforms to enable
automated services, to support decision making
 eSurveillance to develop tailored interventions, to ensure safe &
self-care
 Interactive maps for prevention & control infections
 Multidisciplinary and Integrated models for One Health (food,
water, vector-borne)
 Geo informatics to predict Health& Wellbeing
 Disruptive models (new actors, role-players in data driven systems)
 …
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22. Crossborder
Netzwerk
Deutschland
Niederlande
Testbeds for Cooperation

23. the Challenges of Developing Social Care
Informatics as an Essential Part of Holistic Health
Care (European science foundation)
 Caring Village of the future, linking IT with empathy (EFMI, MIE)
 Testbed
 Technological, semantic, social Interoperability systems
 Human Values, Preferences and Priorities
 Priorities, Preferences and Values driving the choices people
make in decisions about their lives (Geohealth).
 Societal Incentive Framework (Geohealth)
 Ecosystem to set the stage for implementing integrated health
and social care systems throughout society.

24. Synergy, ‘new sciences’
the
technology
sciences
the
social
sciences

25. • Interfaculty Master Track
• GeoHealth; blended learning
• Student, staff exchange (transatlantic; eAfya)
• Dissemination
• MOOC & Book eHealth
• View paper, launch Geohealth
• Workshops, conferences
• Cooperations Network:testbeds
• MOU UT-Uwaterloo; Research & student exchange (Data driven society)
• Health Informatics (NIHI, IMIA, EFMI, IFIP)
• International Projects (safety management)
• National projects (QS, smart homes)
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COLLABORATION GEOHEALTH
EXAMPLES

26. Objectives
• Development of a blended curriculum to improve knowledge, skills and attitudes in eHealth among health care workers
• Implementation (adoption, impact)
• Evaluation with regard to U.N. SDGs (2015)
• Up-scaling
Academic Partners
•City University of New York – School of Public Health (New York, U.S.)
•Moi University – School of Medicine (Eldoret, Kenya)
Business partners
•Philips East Africa
•Philips Research Africa
•AMREF
Endorsements
•Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Nairobi, Kenya)
•Kenya Medical Association
•Royal Dutch Medical Association
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E-AFYATM
EHEALTH CAPACITY BUILDING IN EAST AFRICA

27. Thanks
Thanks Hans for organizing Geohealth Symposium
j.vangemert-pijnen@utwente.nl

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30. Informatics for Tailored, User-Friendly Information
Public& HCWs
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