Tag: healthcare

• Changing the AI Policy Game Requires Changing the Rules By David Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer Chairman Hurd's House Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on Information Technology has scheduled a hearing on artificial intelligence for Wednesday, Feb 14 at 2 PM EST. The hearing is aptly named “Game Changers.” There’s no question that AI will be a game changer; the question is, what kind? In his...
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• Intel launches the Health Application Platform to Provide Better and More Efficient Care Intel announced the launch of the Intel® Health Application Platform, software that, when coupled with an Intel-architecture-based design specification implemented by a third-party hardware vendor, can help enable healthcare solution providers to securely and reliably deliver distributed healthcare services and a new standard for remote patient care[1]. As digitization of healthcare systems progresses, more data about patients’ conditions are routinely...
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• Age Friendly Cities and China’s Competition to Invent Sustainable Health Almost 20 years ago, in my first job out of graduate school for Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, I worked on a project called “ElderSpace.” Our team of social scientists at this Silicon Valley think tank set out to study the needs of the staff and residents of a nearby nursing home, in hopes of discovering ways in which...
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