2018:62(1) - "User-generated health data and applications"

User-generated health data includes data related to activity, diet, exercise, sleep, symptoms, treatments, and outcomes that are collected by the patient outside clinical settings. Beyond various data capture and processing challenges, it is essential to understand how insights generated from the data can be made useful for key stakeholders (e.g., payers, providers, and patients). This issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development emphasizes new methods, models, capabilities, and technologies that focus on the collection, processing, privacy, curation, analysis, interpretation, and use of insights from user-generated health data.

Nontopical papers: At the end of this issue are two nontopical papers on 1) building a cognitive platform for the managed IT services lifecycle and 2) reengineering a server ecosystem for enhanced portability and performance.