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Sarah Ayres Steinberg: National Standards for Strong Apprenticeships

Sarah Ayres Steinberg Center For American Progress
October 31, 2014
Apprenticeship, a time-tested model of worker training, can help meet the growing demand for skilled workers in the United States. Expanding apprenticeship, however, will require employers to understand its value.
 
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Roberto Crotti and Cecilia Serin: Being Sustainable Makes You More Competitive — Not Less

Cecilia Serin World Economic Forum
Roberto Crotti World Economic Forum
October 27, 2014
For the last three years, the World Economic Forum has been working on better analysing and measuring how sustainability relates to national competitiveness.
 
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Mark Masselli and Daren Anderson: Project ECHO Empowers Providers at the Frontlines of Care

Daren Anderson Community Health Center Inc
Mark Masselli Community Health Center Inc
October 21, 2014
One of the biggest challenges of primary healthcare is ensuring frontline providers receive necessary guidance for managing complex and chronic health problems, especially as advances in treatment change rapidly.
 

This need is particularly acute when treating poor and underserved populations. But a new tool that leverages technology to link specialists with primary care providers is making big inroads, with the hope of reaching 1 billion people by 2025.
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Marco Annunziata: How Interconnectedness Is Creating a New Kind of Industrial Company

Marco Annunziata GE
October 09, 2014
The convergence of the digital and the physical world spurred by the Industrial Internet and augmented by Advanced Manufacturing and the Global Brain is bringing a profound transformation to industry.
 

A connected device or machine becomes something entirely new. Think of the multiple roles that smartphones play in our everyday lives; or how cars are turning into communication and navigation platforms with an increasing degree of autonomy. The same revolution is underway in industry.
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Nadeem Ishaque: Imaging the Brain in Real-Time

Nadeem Ishaque GE
October 02, 2014
Isaac Asimov described the human brain as “the most complicated organization of matter that we know.” Despite extraordinary advancements in multiple disciplines of science and technology over the last 100 years, our knowledge of the brain remains in its infancy.
 
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The value of knowing: Australia’s growing demand for early detection of Alzheimer’s

September 30, 2014
In Australia more than 332,000 families are caring for loved ones whose memories, and capacity to live independently, are fading. The result of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, these are conditions that impact generations.
Genetic factors mean that many of the 1.2 million people caring for elderly relatives with dementia face a very real risk that they too will succumb to the same neurological disorders as they age.
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"工业互联网时代的医疗关爱"高峰论坛在北京召开 探索共建和谐生态系统 Ge三大领域助力医疗关爱

September 26, 2014

2014年9月25日,北京------今天,"工业互联网时代的医疗关爱"高峰论坛在北京隆重召开。该论坛由GE医疗中国与中国计算机用户协会、财新传媒共同发起,旨在联合政府、行业及专家学者探讨工业互联网时代的医疗信息化与工业化的深度融合与创新,及其产生的巨大影响和广阔的发展前景,以共同构建医疗领域工业互联网和谐生态系统,推动中国医疗卫生事业的可持续发展。GE医疗在大会上分享了在三大领域的创新和应用,助力医疗关爱。国家卫生和计划生育委员会、国家发展和改革委员会、工业和信息化部等有关部门领导及经济学界、医疗卫生界专家学者约200人参加了大会。

与会嘉宾围绕"工业互联网时代的医疗关爱"这一主题,就相关政策法规、医院与患者需求及医疗服务模式的转变、工业互联网在医疗领域的创新技术与实践等问题展开深入讨论。与会者一致认为,工业互联网在医疗资源共享、预防性维护及资产优化等方面将会带来巨大的想象和实践空间,作为一个关乎国计民生的系统化工程,医疗工业互联网生态系统的建立,更需要政府、行业、医院和企业等多方的协力。


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Mike Johns: Healthcare's New Home: Everywhere

Mike Johns University Of Michigan
September 25, 2014
”I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it,” said Jeanne Calment, who died of natural causes at age 122 as the oldest person on record in 1997.
 

While you can argue the actual number of wrinkles on her body, it’s more interesting to consider how Calment lived so far beyond average life expectancy when the vast majority of human lives are cut short by disease.
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New Dementia Research Reveals Overwhelming Demand for "The Value of Knowing"

September 20, 2014
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Brinnon Garrett Mandel: Global Health Innovation at Work — A New Approach to Cancer Screening

Brinnon Garrett Mandel Jhpiego
September 16, 2014
Innovation is the buzzword of the decade. Touted by government officials, corporate and civic leaders and entrepreneurs, the word has become a stand-in for anything cutting edge or trend setting.
 

But for those of us working in the field of global health, innovation is the driving force behind transformational change that can propel the most promising solutions to the world’s relentless health challenges.
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