Collecting a citizen's digital footprint for health data mining

Oguzhan Gencoglu; Heidi Similä; Harri Honko; Minna Isomursu

doi:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320158

Collecting a citizen's digital footprint for health data mining

Oguzhan Gencoglu, Heidi Similä, Harri Honko, Minna Isomursu

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Abstract

This paper describes a case study for collecting digital footprint data for the purpose of health data mining. The case study involved 20 subjects residing in Finland who were instructed to collect data from registries which they evaluated to be useful for understanding their health or health behaviour, current or past. 11 subjects were active, sending 100 data requests to 49 distinct organizations in total. Our results indicate that there are still practical challenges in collecting actionable digital footprint data. Our subjects received a total of 75 replies (reply rate of 75.0%) and 61 datasets (reception rate of 61%). Out of the received data, 44 datasets (72.1%) were delivered in paper format, 4 (6.6%) in portable document format and 13 (21.3%) in structured digital form. The time duration between the sending of the information requests and reception of a reply was 26.4 days on the average.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	7626 - 7629
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4244-9271-8, 978-1-4244-9270-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320158
Publication status	Published - 5 Nov 2015
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Milan, Italy Duration: 25 Aug 2015 → 29 Aug 2015 Conference number: 37

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Conference	37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Abbreviated title	EMBS
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Milan
Period	25/08/15 → 29/08/15

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banking
data mining
education
insurance
medical services
organizations
portable document format

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Gencoglu, O, Similä, H, Honko, H & Isomursu, M 2015, Collecting a citizen's digital footprint for health data mining. in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 7626 - 7629, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Milan, Italy, 25/08/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320158

Collecting a citizen's digital footprint for health data mining. / Gencoglu, Oguzhan; Similä, Heidi; Honko, Harri et al.
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2015. p. 7626 - 7629.

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