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How Analytics Help Cities Contain Public Health Threats

How Analytics Help Cities Contain Public Health Threats

by CivMetrics Staff | Feb 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health

Data-driven techniques and technologies help smart cities identify when and where outbreaks begin, model how the outbreaks would spread, and advise how outbreaks could be contained. Katie Pyzyk filed this report for smartcitiesdive.com: Analytics technology provides a...

Researchers Find Major Discrepancies In Diet Trials

by CivMetrics Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | Uncategorized

A team led by Dr. David Ludwig from Boston Children’s Hospital that reviewed diet trials found that 86% of such studies “lacked rigor” and were prone to bias. Ludwig adds that diet research is also severely underfunded. Nathan Gray filed this report in NUTRA: When the...

Federal Government Keeps Purse Closed for Nutrition Research Funding

by CivMetrics Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | Uncategorized

The costs of diet-related diseases are rising fast but Washington is still not alarmed enough to open the purse strings for federal nutrition research. Helena Bottemiller Evich and Catherine Boudreau filed this report for Politico: A POLITICO review of federal budget...

Victims Of Healthcare Data Breaches At Risk For Identity Theft

by CivMetrics Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | Uncategorized

Researchers have found that hackers who instigate healthcare data breaches are usually looking for personal data that can be used for fraud or identity theft. Only two percent of compromised medical data were sensitive material like diagnoses or medical images....

Cybersecurity Training: A Must For All Healthcare Workers

by CivMetrics Staff | Feb 11, 2020 | Uncategorized

With healthcare systems now a favorite target of hackers, it is alarming to note that nearly a quarter of all healthcare employees don’t receive cybersecurity training even though more digitally-connected devices have been deployed than ever before. Mike Chapple, an...
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