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Top 10 Challenges of Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

By Editorial Staff

– Big data analytics is a major undertaking for the healthcare industry. 

Providers who have barely come to grips with putting data into their electronic health records (EHRs) are now tasked with pulling actionable insights out of them – and applying those learnings to complicated initiatives that directly impact reimbursement.

For healthcare organizations that successfully integrate data-driven insights into their clinical and operational processes, the rewards can be huge. Healthier patients, lower care costs, more visibility into performance, and higher staff and consumer satisfaction rates are among the many benefits of turning data assets

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Tobacco

Key facts

  • Tobacco kills up to half of its users who don’t quit (1-3).
  • Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year, including an estimated 1.3 million non-smokers who are exposed to second-hand smoke (4).
  • Around 80% of the world’s 1.3 billion tobacco users live in low- and middle-income countries.
  • In 2020, 22.3% of the world’s population used tobacco: 36.7% of men and 7.8% of women.
  • To address the tobacco epidemic, WHO Member States adopted the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in 2003. Currently 182 countries are Parties to this treaty.
  • The WHO MPOWER
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HHS Releases New Data Strategy to Enhance Data Capabilities and Accelerate Progress on Cancer Moonshot Goals

Washington, DC – The US Department of Health and Human Services released its Data Strategy, which seeks to further realize the Department’s mission by advancing its management and use of data to improve human health outcomes. It envisions data that is available, accessible, timely, equitable, meaningfully usable, and protected–and can be effectively used by HHS, its partners, and the public. In support of President Biden’s Unity Agenda, the strategy promotes greater access to data to advance cancer research and improve patient outcomes and advance the goal of the Biden Cancer Moonshot to cut the cancer death rate in half over

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WHO and HL7 collaborate to support adoption of open interoperability standards

Recognizing the importance of interoperability standards in digital health transformation, WHO and standards-development organization, Health Level Seven International (HL7®), signed a Project Collaboration Agreement to support the adoption of open interoperability standards, globally. Adoption of interoperability standards is critical for consistent representation of data and information in health. This consistency allows for various digital health solutions to seamlessly communicate and exchange information, enabling and supporting continuity of care at all levels of the health system, regardless of the software used. For example, interoperable digital solutions can ensure that information from a primary care provider can be easily shared with a

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Olympic

Russian and Belarusian athletes barred from participating in opening ceremonies of Paris Olympics

The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday barred athletes from Russia and Belarus from participating in opening ceremonies in Paris as organizers target countries that were “responsible for the war” in Ukraine.

Athletes from those nations, though no teams, would be allowed to compete in individual events as “Individual Neutral Athletes,” or “AINs.”

“AINs will not participate in the parade of delegations (teams) during the Opening Ceremony, since they are individual athletes,” according to an IOC statement.

But any Russian or Belarusian athlete associated with “military and national security agencies will not be eligible to enter or to compete,” the IOC

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Matildas drawn with United States and Germany in 2024 Paris Olympics group stage

The Matildas’ hopes of winning a historic Olympic gold medal will face an early test after they were drawn alongside heavyweights United States and Germany in the group stage at the Paris Games.

The US has won Olympic gold four times since women’s football was first contested at the 1996 Atlanta Games and is fourth on the FIFA

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Australian Olympic stalwart Andrew Plympton dies aged 74 after long illness

Australian Olympic Committee stalwart Andrew ‘The Admiral’ Plympton has died aged 74 following a long battle with lung cancer.

A sailing world champion in 1988, he continued sailing until only a few weeks before his death.

Plympton was a long-time president of Australian Sailing and also served on the executive of the AOC, while he is credited with helping revive Australian sailing on the biggest stage.

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“(Plympton) was instrumental in the development of the Gold Medal Plan after the Athens Olympics when sailing failed to win a single medal,”

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Nevin Harrison qualifies to defend Olympic canoe title

Nevin Harrison, who in Tokyo became the first US woman to win Olympic canoe or kayak gold, qualified to defend her title in Paris.

Harrison, a 21-year-old Seattle native, won the US Olympic Trials C-1 200m sprint in Sacramento, California, on Friday.

She became the first American to qualify for the Paris Games in any canoe or kayak event. More can join her later this spring.

Harrison won a second world title in 2022 and placed fourth at worlds last August, two months after suffering a back injury that kept him in bed for a week and out of the

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