Category «Health Care»

2021 Edelman Trust Barometer

“After a year of unprecedented disaster and turbulence – the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis, the global outcry over systemic racism and political instability – the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals an epidemic of misinformation and widespread mistrust of societal institutions and leaders around the world. Adding to this is a failing trust ecosystem unable …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management

How can we better dispose of PPE so it doesn’t keep polluting our oceans?

Fast Company: “Six months after the Ocean Conservancy added a PPE category to its waste collection app, beach cleaners said they collected 107,219 such items. It’s another sad reality of the COVID-19 era that some of the steps we’re taking to stay safe and combat the coronavirus spread are often in opposition to hard-fought efforts …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Health Care

The hybrid office is here to stay. The shift could be more disruptive than the move to all-remote work.

Washington Post – “Citigroup, Ford, TIAA, Target: A growing number of bellwether companies are outlining their hybrid return-to-work plans. The post-vaccine workplace is taking shape, and for many it’s going to be a hybrid model, allowing more remote work but with clear expectations that some days a week will be in the office. Workforce experts …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Here is a detailed picture of vaccination across the country. See where your county stands.

Washington Post – March 27, 2021: “The first nationwide look at vaccination across counties reveals vast differences in the rate that people are receiving protection from the coronavirus, with notably lower rates in predominantly Black areas and counties that voted most heavily for President Donald Trump in 2020…The county data exposes the missing information about …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Visualizing Congressional Votes on the Coronavirus Relief Package

Visualizing Congressional Votes on the Coronavirus Relief Package – “The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations that show how sharply polarized Congressional votes on the coronavirus relief package were. Even though most Americans support the bill, one visualization shows that there were only three votes in Congress that were not Democrats voting to pass …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation

An Open Dataset to Foster Research in Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease

An Open Dataset to Foster Research in Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease “- The European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD), an EU-funded consortium to advance the testing and development of preventative treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, has published data to help foster research in new treatments for the disease. The data includes cognitive, clinical, neuroimaging, and biomarker …

Subjects: Health Care

Billions of records have been hacked already. Make cybersecurity a priority or risk disaster, warns analyst

ZDNet – “A new report warns against relegating cybersecurity to the bottom of the to-do list. More data records have been compromised in 2020 alone than in the past 15 years combined, in what is described as a mounting “data breach crisis” in the latest study from analysis firm Canalys.  Over the past 12 months, …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Internet

How to Recognize Scam Sites That ‘Help’ You Schedule Your Vaccine

lifehacker – “As vaccine supply struggles to meet demand, grassroots social media groups known as “vaccine hunters” have sprung up all over the country, helping people find and book appointments. As helpful as these groups can be, they’ve also become the new favorite target for scammers. Here’s how you can protect yourself. How vaccine hunter …

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine, Social Media

Remote working may not be the ‘new normal’ after all

Tech Republic: “Firms’ enthusiasm for scaling back on office space may have cooled slightly, with a new survey by professional services group KPMG suggesting that CEOs no longer intend to downsize their physical footprint after the COVID-19 pandemic. KPMG’s 2021 CEO Outlook Pulse Survey indicated that only 17% of chief executives plan to reduce office …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Knowledge Management