medicine / technology / global heatlh / design. opinions are my own.
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We need all countries to be part of @WHO to keep everyone, everywhere safe and healthy. #WeNeedWHO now more than ever to deliver on #HealthForAll.
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For clinicians wanting to get into #AI, ML, these are the 3 recent papers I would recommend:
1.thelancet.com/journals/landi… @LancetDigitalH by @FaesLiv @pearsekeane
2. nature.com/articles/s42256-0… @NatMachIntell @james_y_zou @abidlabs
3.jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… @JAMA_current @GoogleAI
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The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 65 years later.
Africa: 32% ↘ 8%
Asia: 25% ↘ 4%
Oceania: 9% ↘ 3%
Latin America: 20% ↘ 2%
Northern America: 4% ↘ 0.6%
Europe: 11% ↘ 0.6%
Globally: 22% ↘ 4.5%
From our publication @OurWorldInData.
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Want to know the top 5️⃣ insights from the newest #communityhealth research?
The #communityhealth #researchroundup gives you the key takeaways from important new #CHW academic papers every two weeks. This is issue 011
⬇️ Read on! ⬇️
#CHW #HealthdforAll #WD2019 #UHC2030
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The dream goes on! Morris Kahn just announced the launching of Beresheet 2.0 #Beresheet2.0 #IsraeltotheMoon
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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, @NatureMedicine has an incredible, packed issue on digital medicine & #AI. Deep learning ECG for heart function & rhythm, kidney disease, many perspectives nature.com/nm/ congrats to @immuno_stuff and team for pulling all this together
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AI is a powerful tool for improving society. I'm excited about our AI for Social Good program, focusing on both research & empowering the ecosystem.
If you have ideas, submit to the AI Impact Challenge! We're funding the best ideas w/$25M. Learn more at ai.google/social-good
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How your smartphone will eventually be making early diagnosis of eye conditions to prevent blindness, loss of visual acuity [#AI-eye] wired.com/story/wired25-sund… @WIRED by @anthonylydgate
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I have made a world map that shows where the world population of 7.633 billion people is at home.
(Never spent as much time on a visualization before.)
Just published my new post which introduces it:
ourworldindata.org/world-pop…
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We're hiring! We are looking for a Product Manager to communicate product capabilities, align internal resources & deliver on ambitious goals to provide better care that reaches everyone. 📲
Interested? Apply today! medicmobile.org/careers/prod… #mhealthjobs #socentjobs #ict4djobs
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Ignore the headlines - the world is getting better youtu.be/VHwKyJOlZxU thanks @MaxCRoser and @OurWorldInData love that you are featured on @bemeapp
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Many of you requested teaching material on global development from us.
@eortizospina has therefore produced 5 slide decks for teaching and they are now available online – hopefully at a good time with the start of the academic year coming up soon:
ourworldindata.org/teaching-…
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Related to the earlier tweets, @BillGates asked me which statistics we should all know if we want to understand how the world is changing.
Here he published my answer on his blog:
gatesnotes.com/Development/M…
Have you seen the @HeartisansTech wearable BP watch. I just got one and am still in the process of calibrating it .. but pretty promising. xitter.cf/Mark_Huffman/status/10…
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Congratulations @Atul_Gawande on your new post. Hope your leadership can set a new path forward for #healthcare
businesswire.com/news/home/2…
And who said change doesn't happen... The headline if anyone missed it ... "Industry Collaborates to end the era of the fax machine". Only in healthcare! #digitalhealth xitter.cf/AuDigitalHealth/status…
[Media release] Industry collaborates to end the era of the fax machine. Key industry players have agreed to improve #securemessaging of #patientrecords between #healthcare providers using #clinicalsoftware. Read more: bit.ly/MR_IndustrySecureMess…
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Congratulations to Brian Gitta, who won the Royal Academy of Engineering's #Africa Prize for a device that detects malaria by shining a red beam of light on the patient's finger. bbc.com/news/world-africa-44…
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Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries.
But they spend much more on health than them.
Our work from @OurWorldInData in the New York Times article "Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980" nytimes.com/2018/05/14/upsho…
