Interfaz gráfica para interactuar con resultados de evaluación orientada a sistemas de recomendación

Se sabe que, en los últimos tiempos, con el uso masivo de internet, la importancia del análisis de los datos cada vez es mayor. Esto lo saben tanto investigadores como empresas, que cada vez recopilan más información de los usuarios para crear un perfil virtual de ellos. A través de estos perfiles, las empresas aportan sugerencias, que pueden ser productos de una tienda, artículos de un blog, etc. a los usuarios de forma precisa, con el uso de sistemas de recomendación. El crear un buen sistema de recomendación puede suponer una gran ventaja a las empresas, tanto en ventas, haciendo que un usuario compre otro libro similar al que acabe de leer o descubra un video que le pueda gustar, como fidelizando al cliente, consiguiendo que estos vuelvan a su negocio. Este Trabajo Fin de Grado se basa en el desarrollo de una aplicación para la evaluación de sistemas de recomendación. En ella se podrá tanto evaluar una ejecución, comparando distintas métricas y cutoffs, como comparar varias ejecuciones, de una forma visual y atractiva. La creación de una aplicación como esta puede ayudar a los desarrolladores de los sistemas de recomendación, ya que una buena evaluación de estos es crucial para saber cuán bueno es. Para el desarrollo de este trabajo se ha realizado un estudio de las formas de evaluación de los sistemas de recomendación, así como de la elección de las tecnologías usadas. La aplicación se ha desarrollado en JavaScript, tanto en la parte frontend, con React.js, como en la parte backend, utilizando el entorno Node.js. Dado que el entorno JavaScript no es muy demandado en este tipo de proyectos, se ha tenido que desarrollar todo desde cero; para ello, la realización de una buena batería de pruebas ha sido esencial

Local Foundations and Medical Research Support in Indianapolis after 1945

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Philanthropy plays an important and often publicly visible role in modern medicine. Names like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Gates are associated with medicine both personally and through the foundations they created. This phenomenon also played out on a local level, where communities are dotted with hospitals, university laboratories, and medical schools bearing the names of families who contributed to build, literally and figuratively, the institutions of medical research. Little is known about these local philanthropists, including why they decided to support research and how they organized and carried out the work of grantmaking. Consequently, there is no deep understanding of the value of their contributions. I seek to remedy that omission through this study of the history and work of three small foundations dedicated to medical and scientific research and located in a single, midsized American city. Ultimately this work considers a question fundamental to medical research philanthropy: Can smaller foundations make a meaningful contribution to modern medical research given the scale, complexity, and cost of the work as well as the dominance of federal government funding? This work concludes that the primary value of the foundations under study was not their financial support for research per se, but their flexible and sustained contributions to the local research infrastructure, including philanthropic investments that helped launch research projects and the careers of individual scientists; provided capital for needed physical space; and supported recruiting efforts to bring innovative and productive faculty members to staff new research and patient care departments. The foundations in this study, both individually and collectively, served as valuable strategic allies to the research institutions in their community. As a result, the foundations contributed directly and meaningfully toward the expansion and improvement of the research institutions. The resulting growth in the size and reputation of these programs and facilities generated economic gain that benefitted the broader community. This finding supports a call for the development of a more nuanced and complete understanding of the potential impact that smaller funders can have in a large and complicated system

The challenges of using information communication technologies in the healthcare systems in Ethiopia from provider's perspectives

The adoption of eHealth is very slow despite evidences showing its benefits. This research examines the individual, clinical, technical and organizational challenges for eHealth adoption from healthcare provider‟s perspectives. A cross-sectional study design with a quantitative paradigm was used. The study was conducted on 312 doctors and nurses randomly selected from ten hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Most respondents viewed eHealth positively with no significant differences in terms of profession or gender. Computer skill, workload, patient interaction, management support, cost and infrastructure were the main concerns. Privacy and security were not the main concerns. Knowledge of eHealth applications and utilization was low, even for evidence-based medicine and online databases. Specialists and males were better aware of eHealth applications. The study showed that eHealth acceptance was good. Increasing eHealth literacy was recommended as a cost effective means for improving access to updated information to improve the quality of healthcare.Health StudiesM.A. (Public Health (Medical Informatics)

Managing the Chronic

This thesis is based on research conducted on twenty-two disease management programs in the Netherlands. These programs were predominantly based in primary care facilities and focused on chronic diseases including diabetes, COPD, risk of cardiovascular disease, mental health issues, or co-morbidity for patients with multiple chronic diseases. The disease management programs were carried out by teams of clinicians and were supported by internal and external communication and chronic disease experts. As part of the programs, patients were invited to participate in extra educational sessions, offered additional appointments to discuss their concerns with their chronic disease, and/or given access to their medical record via an online patient portal; through the disease management programs, much emphasis was put on partnering with patients to manage their chronic disease. To understand how these disease management programs worked in practice, I conducted interviews with clinicians, patients, and external supporters; I also conducted online data collection of a patients’ support website to get further observations and deeper insight into the lives of those with a chronic disease. This research uncovers how the programs changed the lives of those who participated in them, and how disease management programs changed care in the programs. It also reveals how the research program that ran alongside the disease management program impacted healthcare delivery