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Citational Racism: How Leading Medical Journals Reproduce Segregation in American Medical Knowledge

Bill of Health

One outcome of this work was the 2008 apology by Ronald Davis, the AMA’s immediate past president, for the AMA’s history of racial exclusion at the NMA’s annual meeting in Atlanta. We conducted a literature search in the SCOPUS database for articles labeled “editorials” in JAMA and JNMA since January 1, 2008. What we found.

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How The Queen Elizabeth Hospital reduced patient waitlist times by 71% with digital patient pathways

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Since 2008, the 303-bed teaching hospital has provided care to endoscopy patients through its Direct Access Colonoscopy (DAC) programme. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia, has reduced how long patients have to wait for their endoscopy or colonoscopy procedures through digital patient pathways. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation

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In Macromedical Regulation , 82 Ohio State Law Journal 727 (2021), we address the nation’s systemic failure to contain an infectious contagion, and we offer solutions by deriving lessons from the 2008 financial contagion. We also do not presume that any smartly-designed regulatory regime can overcome the incompetence of its leaders.

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Biosafety Labs, Public Safety, and Politics

Bill of Health

The site search was narrowed to six choices in 2008. By November of 2008, a new President was elected. So, how did Manhattan, Kansas become the site of the NBAF? That year, the Kansas Governor , Kathleen Sebelius, actively lobbied for her state to host the $1.25 billion facility.

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Roundup: Altera's ANZ head promoted to APAC VP and more briefs

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His responsibilities now include the Southeast Asian market where he has lived from 2008 to 2014 and held senior positions with leading healthcare IT companies like Wolters Kluwer and Carestream Health. 1M grant awarded to evaluate Orygen's digital mental health platform A University of Melbourne professor has received almost A$1.5

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Stay Compliant After the Windows Deadline

Healthcare IT Today

If you have Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 systems, doing nothing isn’t an option. After January 14, 2020, Windows 7 and Server 2008 will no longer receive critical security patches and updates from Microsoft. What will your executives, board, and the public think if you report a breach that could have been prevented?

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Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

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Shirky C (2008) “It’s Not Information Overload. Stanford Medicine 2017 Health Trends Report: Harnessing the Power of Data in Health. link] sm/sm-news/documents/StanfordMedicineHealthTrendsWhitePaper2017.pdf pdf (accessed 4 September 2020). It’s Filter Failure” Lecture at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York.