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Space-Time Research, a small Melbourne business intelligence solutions company, has snared a contract which will see its SuperSTAR analysis and dissemination software implemented by the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to allow research and public use of healthcare data about diseases such as congenital heart defect and diabetes.
The company, which is based in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Richmond, says its solution will allow researchers to gain insights from analysis of trends from confidentialised microdata records, and that privacy protected data can be used by the hospital to share data with the public and promote awareness and understanding of disease information that could affect their lives.
According to a statement from SuperSTAR, the Registries Core Facility Group within the department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Scientific Computing at the King Faisal hospital has the mission to provide high quality disease registries, analysis and administration of the registry information, and leadership in establishing the registries in collaboration with other health organizations in the region, and that researcher analysis of the registry data is expected to lead to better understanding of the cause and effects of diseases like diabetes which is a growing concern worldwide and within the Kingdom.
Dr. Sultan Al-Sedairy, executive director of the Research Center at KFSH&RC said “my vision is to have a medium that will allow public access to visualizations of analyses that promote health care education. We want to understand the actions that affect the control measures associated with the spread of disease.”
“This vision allowed the collaboration with Space Time Research and MIS, providing easy access to health research statistics using SuperSTAR technology.” John Ellenberger, Vice-President Statistical Solutions at Space-Time Research.
“We are pleased to be associated the Dr. Al-Sedairy’s vision and believe we will not only provide self-service public access but will also reduce the cost of internal KFSH resources. Users will have confidentialised access to the data they need without requiring manual efforts to provide it.”
Al Moammar Information Systems (MI) will provide the geospatial knowledge and complete the installation and support for the SuperSTAR solution, and Moufid Charafeddine of MIS said “we look forward to the integration of the SuperSTAR tabulation and dissemination system with ArcGIS 10 from ESRI to deliver a very important outcome for the Kingdom.”
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