Excel & Tableau softwares help to transform data into powerful visualisation forms for its better understanding. Learn more about them  at BrightTalk

I learnt about yet another text mining tool- Distant Reader. This tool empower researchers to use and understand large amount of textual information residing in scholarly journals or the complete works of a given author and much more.  Further details are available at its site HERE.

There is Voyant Tools as well that provide almost a similar service. It offers an open-source, web based application for performing text analysis. This is for interpretation of texts and corpus supporting scholars in digital humanities. Read more on its site HERE

Need to keep pace with the analytic tools just like-understanding webometrics and sentiment analysis based tools. Found an interesting paper..A history of webometrics by Mike Thelwall

Came across this link and to learn about sentiment analysis here

Found an interesting blog Sustaining the knowledge commons

Political map of India 9th edition ,2019

Hyper authorship

Here's interesting papers on hyper authorship noticed in Nature journal

Hyperauthorship: global projects spark surge in thousand-author papers

Paper authorship goes hyper

About Predatory Journals: 

“Predatory journals and publishers are entities that prioritize self-interest at the expense of scholarship and are characterized by false or misleading information, deviation from best editorial and publication practices, a lack of transparency, and/or the use of aggressive and indiscriminate solicitation practices.”-Nature 576, 210-212 (2019) Read More HERE

Practicing Data visualization tools to find authors and authorship patterns from the published research articles available in PubMed on ''Malaria in India''

Article in Nature Journal:

Building a better malaria vaccine

Here are more tools to add to my learning:

Dimensions

The Lens

iCite

MeSH on Demand

Some of the  Information Science resources and tools to withstand agile information environment that I came across today are :

 Knowledge Unlatched

Scholarcy.com

Iris.ai

Paper Digest

Courtesy: Scholarly Kitchen

Interesting reads:

Should we use AI to make us quicker and more efficient researchers?

29 states and UTs have signedMoU for implementation of Ayushman Bharat - PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaAbhiyan (AB-PMJAY): J P Nadda 

“29 states and UTs have signed the MoU and have started working on implementation of the PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojna.The pilots have started in 16 States / UTs. Other states/UTs will also start pilots before fully launching the scheme on 25thSeptember.” This was stated by Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfareduring a press conference on Ayushman Bharat - PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojna (AB-PMJAY), here today, while addressing the media. ShriAshwini Kumar Choubey and SmtAnupriya Patel, Ministers of State for Health and Family Welfare along with ShriInduBhushan, CEO, AB-NHA were also present at the press conference. Read More HERE

Study conducted by AIIMS centre: Over 16,000 poisoning calls in 10 years, kids most vulnerable

The study analysed 16,420 calls received by the NPIC between April 2006 and March 2016. NPIC was established in 1995 at AIIMS to combat acute poisoning, which doctors said was among the most common medical emergency in the world.To know more read HERE

Hospitals in the Country

How many hospitals are there in the country?

There is no source available to know the exact number of hospitals and beds available there in the country. However as per the World Bank data available in the link‘https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS’, beds per 1000 Population in India are less than a number of countries.

Public health & Hospitals being a State subject, State Governments are primarily responsible for up-keeping, providing health care to people and maintaining information of hospitals. However, the following information is given in below:
Number of Primary Health Centers(PHCs), Community Health Centers(CHCs), Sub-District/Divisional Hospitals(SDHs), District Hospitals(DHs) and beds, India, State/UT wise as uploaded by the State/UTs on the Health Management Information System (HMIS) portal of the Ministry.
Number of Govt. Hospitals and beds in Rural and Urban Areas, India, State/UT wise, as available in the Publication National Health Profile 2018.
Number of AYUSH hospitals and beds State/UT-wise, as provided by the Ministry of AYUSH.

For more information read HERE

Universal Health Coverage in the country

Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare rolled out several initiatives to bring access to health care for everyone. Some of the steps taken by the government  to meet this aim are available HERE

“Digital health has great potential towards reducing inequity in provisioning and distribution of healthcare resources and services and it can greatly facilitate proactive treatment for disabled patients, children with developmental delays and deformities and people suffering from mental health illnesses and for those suffering from stigmatic infections such as HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis.” This was stated by Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare during his address at the Global Digital Health Partnership Symposium at Sydney, Australia, on February 21,2018. The Union Health Minister spoke on the topic: The role of digital health in supporting improved health outcomes in India. For further details read HERE