What opportunities do new technologies and the internet pose for healthcare? In a digital world, the tools available to medicine are constantly evolving, allowing the development of new and innovative forms of care and treatment.
Research at the OII considers these opportunities and suggests new way to leverage technological innovation for health. Our projects consider a diverse set of potential tools, including the use of automation in general practice, network data for disease control, and big data to deepen our understanding of Alzheimer’s Disease.
The Oxford COVID-19 Project aims to increase our understanding of COVID-19 and elaborate possible strategies to reduce the impact on the society through the combined power of Statistical, Mathematical Modelling and Machine Learning techniques.
This project builds on existing data science to understand the extent to which credible public health information is outweighed by false content on social media and measure the effectiveness of public health communication responses in real‐time.
This study will assess how self-tracking data shapes social communities and the support people that receive from them, mapping the roles that online fitness communities play in maintaining psychological and social wellbeing and social connectedness.
By Matthew Willis, Paul Duckworth, Logan Graham, Michael Osborne, Eric T. Meyer, and Angela Coulter
To what extent can GPs in England face their challenges through automation? This report, leveraging ethnographic observations in primary care centres, suggests that about 44% of administrative and clerical tasks can be mostly or completely automated.
12 May 2022
The UK funding bodies have published the results of the UK’s most recent national research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
30 March 2022
Professor Lehdonvirta takes stock of everything that he and his research team have learned through iLabour, a major research project that he launched in 2015 with funding from the European Research Council.
28 March 2022
Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during their adolescence, say an international team of scientists.
8 March 2022
The theme of International Women’s Day 2022 is #BreakTheBias. We're marking the day by highlighting the work of our brilliant and innovative women academics, researchers, and students, here at the OII.
Business Insider, 15 May 2022
Elon Musk wants to put Donald Trump back on Twitter. What are the implications if he does?
International Business Times, 24 April 2022
When Jak found online marketplace Etsy, it seemed like the perfect match: a tech platform for small traders to sell handmade items that promised to be a creative outlet and bring tidy profits.
The Washington Post, 19 April 2022
As governments and social media companies have moved to suppress Russia’s state media and the disinformation it spreads about the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s diplomats are stepping up to do the dirty work.
