Month: June 2022

Score this Nvidia-powered Lenovo gaming laptop for a ridiculously cheap $500

Score this Nvidia-powered Lenovo gaming laptop for a ridiculously cheap $500

Lenovo Getting into portable PC gaming isn’t cheap. Cheap gaming laptops with the discrete graphics needed to play games usually start around $800 to $1000 and only go up—way up—from there. But right now, you can get an entry-level Lenovo gaming laptop with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 for a ridiculous $500 at GameStop. This …

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Ponemon Institute: Just 16% of enterprises have mature IAM programs

Ponemon Institute: Just 16% of enterprises have mature IAM programs

More than half (56%) of respondents to a recent Ponemon Institute survey reported an average of three identity-related data breaches over the past two years. That could be because so few organizations in healthcare and elsewhere are adequately investing in identity and access management technologies, the report suggests. WHY IT MATTERS The report shows just …

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HIMSS22 Europe: ‘The human factor and redesign of services are the keys to driving integrated care’

HIMSS22 Europe: ‘The human factor and redesign of services are the keys to driving integrated care’

“Progress is happening, but unfortunately whenever we look around the world and people talk about integrated care, they can’t always point to best practice,” said Hassan Chaudhury, opening the session ‘Best Practice in Integrated Care – What does success look like?’ at the HIMSS22 European Conference on Wednesday (15 June) The speakers were: Hassan Chaudhury, global …

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HIMSS22 Europe: ‘Digitalisation must address health inequalities – not cause them’

HIMSS22 Europe: ‘Digitalisation must address health inequalities – not cause them’

There was a sense of hope, combined with an awareness of the challenges ahead, as global health experts convened to discuss the topic of ‘Humanity’s Moment for Reimagining Health and Care’ in the keynote session at HIMSS22 European Conference today in Helsinki (15 June). The speakers were: Adam Niedzielski, Minister of Health, Poland; Elad Benjamin, business …

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United Health Foundation puts $100M toward a more diverse healthcare workforce

United Health Foundation puts $100M toward a more diverse healthcare workforce

Photo: FG Trade/Getty Images The United Health Foundation, the philanthropic arm of UnitedHealth Group, is making a $100 million commitment over 10 years to advance health equity, in what it framed as a continuation of its efforts to eliminate health disparities. The new commitment was announced today at the Social Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., …

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Europe’s medicines watchdog publishes new report identifying COVID-19 lessons learned

Europe’s medicines watchdog publishes new report identifying COVID-19 lessons learned

The report described the continued approval of vaccines to combat COVID-19, the strengthening of cyber-capabilities in the wake of a 2020 attack, and the extension of the agency’s mandate. WHY IT MATTERS In 2021, the European Commission, Parliament and Council gave the EMA greater tools enabling it to both support innovation and respond to emergencies, …

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Cross-border system launched to unify digital health standards in the Nordics

Cross-border system launched to unify digital health standards in the Nordics

A world-first programme to unify digital health standards across multiple countries, is being launched by the Nordic Interoperability Project (NIP) at HIMSS22 European Health Conference & Exhibition today. The Nordic Digital Health and Evaluation Criteria (NordDEC) programme aims to enable healthcare providers across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland to evaluate and identify trusted digital …

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The challenges of telemental health, and how they can be overcome

The challenges of telemental health, and how they can be overcome

Of all the medical specialties impacted by telemedicine during the course of the pandemic, perhaps the one with the most wholesale and lasting effects is behavioral and mental health. Mental health appointments do not typically involve any collection of vitals or specimens, nor do they absolutely require a face-to-face meeting, although therapists can observe physical …

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