HEALTH

The World Health Organization (WHO) states that one person out of every eight in the world is living with a mental health condition. Some figures suggest that half of these conditions are already present by the time a person is 15 years old. More recently, an Office of Health Improvement and Disparities survey revealed that nearly half of adults and over half of Black adults in England said the COVID-19 pandemic had had a negative impact on their mental well-being.
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2 years ago Read more at Keep the Faith ®

UnitedHealth Group reports that "Change Healthcare,” a medical payment processor, is finally back online after hackers shut it down three weeks ago. The hack costed providers an estimated $100 million a day.
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2 years ago Read more at CBS News

Global investment firms Eight Roads Ventures and Denali Growth Partners have raised $39 million in Series B round. The round follows rapid customer adoption of its healthcare data ingestion, cleansing, and enrichment platform, MCheckTM. HiLabs provides artificial intelligence-based solutions to manage health data.
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2 years ago Read more at Mint

FLAME is an online ageing cohort with extensive longitudinal cognitive and health data from over 50,000 participants in the UK, Norway, Canada and the US. The system can detect statistically meaningful age-related cognitive decline, with concurrent validity with established, FDA-approved criteria for early cognitive impairment (P<0.0001) and sensitivity to the trajectory of cognitive decline in healthy and impaired individuals. There is also good evidence for health and lifestyle factors that influence prognosis and risk.
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2 years ago Read more at Open Access Government

Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so. He made the comments in an autobiography, “Life: My Story Through History” which is being published Tuesday. Extensive excerpts were published Thursday in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
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2 years ago Read more at ABC News

Workwell Leaders (WWL) wants to track impact on workers from changes made to workplace behaviours, workload and work design, team collaboration and a sense of belonging. It has set up a work group to design a research study that will identify best practices for local organisations to benchmark against, at no charge.
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2 years ago Read more at The Straits Times

Thaksin Shinawatra is visiting his native province of Chiang Mai from Thursday to Saturday. He will reportedly make merit to his parents and other deceased family members at a local Buddhist temple. The former prime minister was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for corruption stemming from his 2001-2006 tenure as prime minister.
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2 years ago Read more at The Star Online

To celebrate, MU is hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony followed by an open house with guided tours of the new facility. Free food and giveaways will be provided. Speakers include Mun Choi, president of the University of Missouri Angela King Taylor, interim vice chancellor of student affairs Jamie Shutter, executive director of student health and well-being Jim Parker, director of the student health center.
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2 years ago Read more at University of Missouri

The United States government spends less on global health R&D than it should consider the returns such investments bring taxpayers. Health advocacy agencies say the funding is “modest” in context of public investment in other spending areas, such as defence.
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2 years ago Read more at Research Professional News

Assort Health is announcing $3.5 million in funding, which will be used to continue scaling the team to meet rapidly accelerating demand with large healthcare organizations. Assort’s revolutionary AI model underwent training on patient calls spanning hundreds of thousands of interactions. The platform adeptly discerns caller intent, seamlessly integrating with medical providers’ electronic health records (EHR), including Epic.
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2 years ago Read more at HIT Consultant