Tesla removes stock-based compensation this year, report says

  • December 20, 2023
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Tesla has reportedly decided not to give stock-based compensation to employees as part of their annual performance review. CEO Elon Musk has often claimed that Tesla has the best employee compensation in the auto industry and that’s because of its stock options. Just last month, Musk told a crowd at a New York Times conference: […]

What makes good procurement? The importance of data quality and transparency in NHS expenditure

  • December 20, 2023
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High-quality data is the bedrock of meaningful analysis and decision-making. It plays a pivotal role in enabling an effective understanding of financial expenditure within any NHS trust or integrated care system (ICS).   Without robust data quality, it becomes challenging to work out where resources are being utilised and whether they are being deployed optimally. Ensuring […]

Auto journalist’s Blazer EV road trip turns into a software nightmare

  • December 20, 2023
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I want to preface this story with a caveat: Lemons exist (and I don’t mean the fruit). Sometimes, you just get a bad car. And generally speaking, I have a very empathetic view toward the job of vehicle software engineers. The functions that customers expect their vehicles to perform have grown immensely in the past […]

World

Dean Phillips, an Upstart Challenger to Biden, Embraces ‘Medicare for All’

  • December 20, 2023
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As he mounts a long-shot primary challenge to President Biden, Representative Dean Phillips says he has had an epiphany about American health care policy. Gone is his yearslong skepticism about adopting a national single-payer health care system. Now Mr. Phillips, a moderate Democrat from Minnesota, is embracing the “Medicare for all” proposal championed in two […]

Health Technologies

HTN Now: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals on the implementation of an integrated referral management platform – htn

  • December 20, 2023
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For a recent HTN Now webinar, we welcomed Rebecca Coughlan, therapy manager of outpatient services at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHR), to present how the North East London Musculoskeletal Alliance has improved the quality of referrals and significantly reduced waiting times using integrated referral management platform NEC Rego. Background to Rego implementation […]

E-scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy

  • December 20, 2023
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Global e-scooter company Bird, an early pioneer of shared micromobility, has seen better days – it has confirmed that it is filing for bankruptcy for its service in the US, while keeping its Canadian and European operations intact for the time being. Bird released a press release this morning announcing it has entered “into a […]

Health Technologies

Tackling the clinical trials diversity challenge

  • December 20, 2023
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Kelly McKee is VP of Decentralized Clinical Trials and Patient Registries at Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company and provider of clinical trial solutions to the life sciences industry. Kelly has spent the last 20+ years working to make the clinical trial process more efficient and accessible to patients and caregivers through innovative solutions including decentralised […]

CNBC Daily Open: The bulls are back on Wall Street

  • December 20, 2023
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Snow covers the Charging Bull sculpture in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., December 17, 2020. Jeenah Moon | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where […]