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Moody’s rating agency, in their statement “Moody's places South Africa's Baa2 ratings on review for downgrade” carried on their website they cite, amongst numerous other factors that they will look at to determine whether to downgrade South Africa’s rating or not,...

We seem to be entering the era of the quantified self. I have a wearable device that monitors how much and how well I sleep, and counts the number of steps I take every day. I've hooked this up to my Personal Health Record (PHR) at The Health Chain, and it pumps this...

An interesting piece of research was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) - abstract here. Of interest is the fact that 13% of patients self reported that they have withheld information from a provider because of...

A colleague recently said that the problem of non-adherence to prescribed medication will not be solved by getting individuals to take their medication, but will be solved by "big data". "It is a big data solution" he said. I was so puzzled by what he said, and so...