Bringing Data to DC: Q&A With Health Data's Biggest Evangelist HHS CTO Bryan

Bringing data to DC: Q&A with health data's biggest evangelist HHS CTO Bryan

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GigaOM: Judging by booming investment, accelerator programs, startup launches, and other activity in the sector, digital health seems to be seeing a lot of innovation, but what kinds of innovation do you think are missing? … If we don't have the data …
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One in 10 South Africans HIV positive

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ONE in 10 South Africans is HIV positive but AIDS-related deaths are falling as ramped-up treatment begins to have an impact, the country's official statistics agency says. After years of dragging its heels on the HIV/AIDS crisis, since 2004 South …
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Local TV Needs Rx For Its Health Coverage

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The plethora of misleading medical reports on local TV has negative effects, ranging from fueling unwarranted public health scares to creating illusions that each new drug or treatment is the cure-all patients have been waiting for, he says. Schwitzer …
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Luciano: Child abuse statistics higher in central Illinois region

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“Although there are areas of intense poverty in both Chicago and the Cook County suburbs, those areas also have strong programs that inoculate communities from abuse and neglect: hospital-based and physician driven programs that educate new parents …
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