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Matogen Applied Insights (MAI) assisted with automating parameters for an extensive COVID modelling endeavour. The pandemic’s impact on mining The commodities market  is no stranger to external shocks and already early on in the pandemic, analysts were  scrambling to quantify how COVID-19 would affect mining operations globally. A data science company specialising in health careRead more

Matogen Applied Insights (MAI) assisted a US client in the health sector to perform advanced analytics on data pertaining to dismineral disease, orthopaedic procedures and adverse events. The impact of musculoskeletal disorders In industrialised countries, musculoskeletal disorders pose a significant health and economic burden and account for more than half of all chronic conditions inRead more

Matogen Applied Insights (MAI) created an online medical edutainment platform for a client in a neighbouring country. Healthcare in Botswana Botswana is an upper-middle-income country  that has taken great strides towards improving access to healthcare. It offers universal healthcare to its citizens through its public healthcare system, free for children under five years of age.Read more

In one of Matogen Applied Insights’ (MAI) earliest health sector data science projects, a US-based medical company approached the team to create a tuberculosis monitoring dashboard using clinical trial data, including an automated ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and wrangling process. Monitoring tuberculosis patients Keeping track of tuberculosis patients is critical as there are various exogenousRead more

What is “Big Data” in healthcare? “Big data” is commonly and academically defined to have three significant characteristics: volume, variety and velocity. One of the key industries where generated data adheres to these definitions to a large extent is the healthcare industry. Tellingly, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, big data originating from theRead more

What is “resilience”? The dictionary defines “Resilience” as “an ability to recover from, or adjust easily to, misfortune or change.” Based on many years of clinical research, a team of neuroscientists developed an innovative code to deliver insights into human resilience and how it can drive high performance teams within the corporate realm. The clientRead more

Matogen Applied Insights (MAI) was approached by the director of a European medical company to provide a business case by modelling projections on  the predicted return on investment for a new online platform aimed at connecting people and healthcare.  The prospective healthcare services site includes listings of medical professionals across a broad spectrum of specialisations,Read more

In one of many health sector Big Data projects, Matogen Applied Insights (MAI) performed oncology data modelling for an international client. Big Data in healthcare The benefits and prevalence of Big Data in the healthcare sector are well-known, but it  has been said that Big Data analytics can be considered a potential game-changer in theRead more