/news-archive/tag/cardiovascular-disease/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:38:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/08/22/nitin-agarwal-smart-health-nsf/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:38:35 +0000 /news/?p=74918 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to research smart health in Arkansas, West Virginia with NSF grant聽]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is one of five institutions sharing a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a multi-scale integrative approach to digital health. This collaborative, multi-institution grant will be used to promote smart health in Arkansas and West Virginia.聽 Dr. Nitin Agarwal, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy endowed chair and professor of information science, will receive $600,000 for the study, entitled 鈥�Multi-scale Integrative Approach to Digital Health: Collaborative Research and Education in Smart Health in West Virginia and Arkansas,鈥� which runs from August 2019 to July 2023.聽 The other university partners include the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, West Virginia University, and West Virginia State University. 鈥淗ealthcare costs are on the rise nationally and significantly more so in Arkansas and West Virginia. This is due to high poverty rates in these states and a significantly large population that is affected by cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, and a general lack of physical activity,鈥� Agarwal said. 鈥淭o address these issues, we will conduct a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and a multi-scale integrative approach to trigger smart health initiatives with the goal to lower healthcare costs using artificial intelligence and big data analysis approaches. In addition to developing a big data and smart health research infrastructure, we will create education and outreach components to enhance the workforce in both states.鈥� To accomplish these goals, Agarwal will develop novel social media mining algorithms to study health behaviors in Arkansas and West Virginia, including health attitudes, intentions, health conditions, lifestyle choices, overall sentiment, and mood. 鈥淭apping into such an invaluable data trove is often challenging but rewarding,鈥� Agarwal said. 鈥淲e will study the effectiveness of health communities around predominant health issues in Arkansas and West Virginia and study the validity of social media data for examining patient-reported outcomes, assessing trust, influence, and misinformation in social media pertaining to health discourse.” Agarwal heads the at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, which aims to be at the forefront of the ever-evolving field of social computing. COSMOS is leading several collaborative projects with total funding of more than $10 million from various U.S. federal funding agencies to address some of the most challenging problems of knowledge extraction from big social data and develop methodologies to diagnose novel pathologies of online social media. ]]> /news-archive/2017/03/15/fitness-data-african-americans-latinos-cardiovascular-disease/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:45:38 +0000 /news/?p=66604 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professor a collaborator in $1 million grant project to use fitness data to help African Americans, Latinos with cardiovascular disease]]> The grant is one of 10 $1 million grants awarded by the National Science Foundation to research topics identified by the Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs. The Big Data Spokes will gather stakeholders, engage end-users and solution providers, and form multi-disciplinary teams to tackle questions no single field can solve alone. Gari Clifford, associate professor of biomedical informatics at Emory University, is leading the project, 鈥淟arge-scale Medical Informatics for Patient Care Coordination and Engagement.鈥澛� Partners include Amazon, Emory Critical Care Center, Cerner, Moore School of Medicine, Relus Technologies, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, University of Virginia, and University of West Virginia. Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy chair and professor of information science at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, was awarded $61,931 of the grant to help with social-media based outreach efforts to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease and health factors among African American and Latino communities in the South. He will also help encourage the use of heath care apps among these communities and assist in the data collection and analysis for monitoring patient care. 鈥淏iomedical Big Data is widely recognized for its potential to prevent disease, identify modifiable risk factors, and aid in designing interventions for health behavior change,鈥� Agarwal said. 鈥淭he project will provide a human-centered approach for collection of these data streams, provide methods for evaluating accuracy within these data, and create a cloud-based infrastructure that will improve tracking of study participants, and, ultimately, engagement of patients and coordination of patient care,鈥� Agarwal said. The collaborators will combine traditional data sources (family medical history, lab reports, etc.) with crowdsourced data streams designed to enhance health and capture behavior, such as information recorded by health apps, fitness monitors, social media usage, and sensors that monitor environmental factors like the weather and pollution levels. Together, these data sources will create a long-term integrated data collection process that collaborators hope will improve long-term patient healthcare. The three-year project will end in August 2019. Researchers are currently testing the health care apps they created to monitor patient data. They plan to distribute the apps to African American and Latino communities involved in the study in fall 2017 and spring 2018. ]]>