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  • California works to reverse high maternal mortality rates

    December 16, 2019 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

    To reduce the rates of maternal mortality in California, medical researchers joined with hospitals to study the causes of the death in order to better understand how to move forward. After identifying interventions that could have saved lives in the majority of cases, the collaborative created toolkits and has since worked with participating hospitals to implement better protocols for dealing with cardiovascular disease, hemorrhage, preeclampsia, and reducing cesarean births.

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  • Car-Mounted Ads Take a New Direction: Data Collection

    November 20, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A startup called Firefly uses a comprehensive approach to its sensor-equipped advertising screens by simultaneously showing advertisements on top of Uber and Lyft vehicles and collecting data about the drive and surrounding environment. While the technology is being piloted in five cities, officials try to solve privacy questions and concerns to ensure collected data can help cities to monitor pollution levels or collect sound data - not invade citizens' privacy,

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  • Can technology fix the silent opioid crisis gripping US hospitals?

    November 19, 2019 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Tracking controlled substances can be difficult for hospitals, which often results in drugs being diverted from where they are supposed to go. To tackle this problem, technology companies are stepping in by creating software that utilizes a machine-learning algorithm that "can identify risky prescription and dispensation patterns among healthcare staff."

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  • This startup helps match veterans to the support services they need

    November 11, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A new national startup helps connect veteran service organizations to make enrollment processes easier for veterans seeking help. The startup - called Unite Us - aims to bring together the 46,000 agencies that provide services to veterans to make it easier for veterans to quickly transfer from agency to agency to best meet their needs.

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  • We've Had Terrible Fires. Why Haven't More Homes Burned?

    October 31, 2019 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In and around Los Angeles, firefighters have been able to better respond to wildfires because of better equipment and more personnel. With more off-road trucks, fire helicopters, fire engines, and a new supercomputer system, the fires of 2019 have had less of an impact than in past years. But without a formal analysis – including one that takes into consideration external factors like socioeconomic status – it’s hard to concretely understand why there’s been less damage.

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  • How a Silicon Valley Start-up Is Helping Police Get Smarter About Solving Gun Crimes

    October 15, 2019 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Forensic Logic, a Silicon Valley startup, has developed a database called the Law Enforcement Analysis Portal (LEAP) that collects, streamlines, and analyzes police data in one, centralized digital portal. With forensic and other law enforcement data often being fragmented and siloed, LEAP gives access to information otherwise unavailable to thousands of police departments.

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  • Want To Reduce Suicides? Follow The Data — To Medical Offices, Motels And Even Animal Shelters

    September 23, 2019 |

    Kaiser Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Hillsboro, Oregon

    To reduce the rate of suicides in Oregon, a Washington County epidemiologist formed an unlikely collaboration with the county's death investigators in order to build a comprehensive pool of data about where and why suicides were taking place. The outcome was a better understanding of prevention tactics that included partnering with "motel clerks and housekeepers, animal shelter workers, pain clinic staffers and more" to teach warning signs and ways to respond.

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  • How Singapore is reshaping the civil service with robots

    September 04, 2019 |

    GovInsider |

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    Response Location: Singapore

    Automating repetitive tasks allows civil servants to manage often tedious and high-volume workloads. By introducing forms of automated technology that are already common in the public sector, Singapore has updated its government agencies, allowing civil servants to focus on higher-order tasks. Bots help with services such as payroll, emails, and reconciling budgets.

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  • Upcoming Philadelphia Based App Connects LGBTQ Folks with Informed Affordable Health Care

    September 04, 2019 |

    Philadelphia Gay News |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    When you're new to a city, finding health practitioners that you trust can be difficult, and it's made even more challenging if you identify as LGBTQ and are looking for queer-competent providers. A new app launching in Philadelphia changes that thought, by acting as a "queer health care 'Yelp.'”

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  • Can monitoring social media help prevent violence at Montgomery schools?

    August 09, 2019 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Alabama

    A growing number of U.S. schools are partnering with technology companies and using software programs to monitor students' social media for violent posts. However, some are expressing concern about how this practice and its algorithms may violate student privacy and lead to further discrimination against students of color.

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