HIMSS23: How Collecting the Right Data Can Improve Health Equity

  • April 27, 2023
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Collecting social determinants of health data provides clinicians with information about nonmedical factors affecting a patient’s health. With this added context, care teams can personalize care, which can lead to better patient outcomes. SDOH initiatives can play a major role in improving health equity, but it’s important that patient data is available to all providers […]

Pure Watercraft unveils production-intent electric pontoon boat powered by GM’s EV batteries

  • April 27, 2023
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Electric propulsion specialist Pure Watercraft has officially shared the final design of its Pure Pontoon Boat – the company’s first vessel designed in house. Powered by EV batteries provided by minority stakeholder GM, this first crack at an electric pontoon boat could appeal to many consumers interested in quiet cruises without emissions. Pure Watercraft’s roots […]

Senate republicans just voted to poison you. Again.

  • April 27, 2023
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Senate republicans, joined by Joe Manchin, have voted to roll back the first update to heavy truck pollution standards in 22 years. The new soot standards are estimated to save thousands of lives and tens of billions of dollars. President Joe Biden has indicated that he will veto this action, so it’s unlikely to go […]

In a first, a cargo ship strikes an offshore wind turbine

  • April 27, 2023
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A cargo ship struck an offshore wind turbine at the 330-megawatt (MW) Gode Wind 1 wind farm in the German North Sea. The 55-turbine Gode 1 offshore wind farm, which is 45 km (28 miles) off the German coast, is owned by Danish wind giant Ørsted. The general cargo ship is called the Petra L, […]

5 Questions About SecOps in Healthcare

  • April 27, 2023
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2. What Are Some Examples of SecOps Best Practices in Healthcare? SecOps helps healthcare deal with security issues presented by virtual care, legacy systems, various levels of security in workstations and more. For example, electronic health record, laboratory and imaging systems must be kept updated and patched, but prioritization is difficult. SecOps automates patch management, […]

Wind and solar are now beating coal in the US

  • April 27, 2023
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Wind and solar combined now provide more generating capacity and produce more electricity than coal in the US, according to new data from the EIA and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which was reviewed by the nonprofit SUN DAY Campaign. What the EIA reported In the first two months of 2023, electrical generation by […]

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From Alpacas to Yaks, Mammal DNA Yields Its Secrets

  • April 27, 2023
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To learn more about humans, a large international team of scientists spent years tracking down some of the strangest creatures on Earth. They camped out on an Arctic ice floe to collect DNA from the one-tusked narwhal, netted a tiny bumblebee bat in a cave-rich region of Southeast Asia and ventured behind the scenes at […]