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The Department of Information Systems & Analytics welcomes four new faculty members

27 January 2022 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Faculty , Healthcare Informatics , Economics of IS

27 January 2022 - Four new faculty members have joined NUS Computing’s Department of Information Systems and Analytics:

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Predicting When Rare and Multiple Diseases Happen At Once

17 June 2021 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Faculty , Feature , Healthcare Informatics

 

To say that the human body is an intricate complicated system would be an understatement. When one thing goes wrong, others often follow suit. So in 1970 when Alvan Feinstein first coined the term ‘comorbidity’ — to refer to a person having multiple diseases at the same time — it wasn’t too revolutionary a concept.

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Can Mobile Apps Make Us Eat Better and Be Healthier?

06 May 2021 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Faculty , Feature , Healthcare Informatics

Every decade has an exercise trend or two that defines it. Step aerobics and the Thighmaster were popular in the ‘90s, for instance, while exer-gaming and CrossFit were all the craze in the 2000s. To know what’s trending this decade, look no further than your wrist (or to those around you) — chances are it’ll be adorned with some sort of wearable device, fitness tracker, or smartwatch.

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Towards personalised medicine: subtyping patients using their genomic data

18 December 2020 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Faculty , Feature , Data Science & Business Analytics , Healthcare Informatics

 

Most pundits gazing into the crystal ball will likely shout two words in their prediction of healthcare’s future: precision medicine. Increasingly, there is growing recognition that tailoring treatments based on an individual’s lifestyle, genes, and environmental factors can yield much improved outcomes.

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Lost in masses of clinical data? Help is here

28 January 2020 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Faculty , Research , Feature , Data Science & Business Analytics , Healthcare Informatics , Intelligent Systems

The intensive care unit where Dr. Jean-Daniel Chiche works in Paris is what you would expect from an ICU. Amidst an atmosphere of respectful quiet and hushed tones lie patients in isolated rooms, often tethered to a bewildering array of tubes, wires, monitors and machines.

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Research breakthroughs presented at ICIS 2019

18 December 2019 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Faculty , Research , Data Science & Business Analytics , Healthcare Informatics , Computational Social Science

From investigating the probability of losing jobs to artificial intelligence (AI), to the benefits of pop-up ads—here are the recent research breakthroughs by the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2019.

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Dr. Tan & Prof Teo win Annual Best Paper Meritorious Mention

16 August 2016 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Faculty , Healthcare Informatics

 

16 August 2016 – Dr. Sharon Tan, Prof Teo Hock Hai and their collaborator Dr. Tong Yu have received the AIS SIGHealth 2016 Annual Best Paper Meritorious Mention for their paper ‘The road to early success: Impact of system use in the swift response phase’.

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