Tag: Health

AI Predicts Long-Term Patient Survival After Cardiac Surgery (Erin McNemar, MPA, Health IT Analytics)

According to Mayo Clinic researchers, a novel artificial intelligence algorithm can predict long-term patient survival after cardiac surgery. The research team found an algorithm that...

Top economists call for ‘radical redirection’ focusing on healthcare (UN News)

Released on Tuesday, the WHO Economic Council’s new brief, Financing Health for All, points to three main actions: create fiscal space, direct investments, and the administration of public and private finance. On public spending, the experts say that easing...

TechInnovation – These AI projects are improving cancer screening and outcomes (WEF)

Keren Priyadarshini - Regional Business Lead, Worldwide Health, Microsoft Asia / Ruma Bhargava - Project Lead, Fourth Industrial Revolution for Health, India, World Economic...

Climate Change/Health – How Climate Change Affects Health and How Countries Can Respond (World Resources Institute)

By Stefanie Tye  The Effects of Climate on Health & How Countries Can Respond | World Resources Institute (wri.org)

ASIA PACIFIC/HEALTH/COVID19 – Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2020. Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage (OECD)

This sixth edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care...

GLOBAL EYE – How to defuse the human waste time bomb in low-income countries (Izabella Koziell, Al Jazeera)

Half of the world flushes away their sewage without a second thought as to where it goes. But for the other half of the...