Peter Dinham
Wednesday, 08 July 2009 11:42
IT Industry -
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A new research tool designed to increase the accuracy for determining the link between a person’s occupation and their risks of getting cancer, has been showcased to an international health research conference in the United States by a Queensland company which developed the software.
Data Scientists, a company specialising in the
development of IT solutions for researchers, launched its new open
source software solution - developed at the Innovation Centre on
Queensland’s Sunshine Coast - to the 42nd annual meeting of the Society
of Epidemiological Research (SER) in Los Angeles.
Data Scientists’ managing director, Troy Sadkowsky, said that
previously to determine the likelihood that a person has been exposed
to a hazardous environment, an epidemiology expert would have had to
individually read through each questionnaire response.
Sadkowsky said that with the new tool – OccIDEAS - the researcher can
set rules in the system which automatically analyse which participants
of the study have possible exposure or not. He said experts attending
the SER meeting were very impressed by the program and its potential
applications.
“A number of researchers stated that the application would have been
perfect for their recent study and they wished they could have heard
about OccIDEAS sooner.”
OccIDEAS was developed by Data Scientists for the University of Western
Australia, for the purpose of increasing the accuracy in determining
links between a person’s occupation and the risk of getting cancer.
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