The Treasury's Fintech Report: Key Takeaways
Today was a busy day for financial regulatory policy. In the morning, the Department of the Treasury released its long-awaited report on nonbank financials, fintech, and innovation. A few hours later, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced that it will start taking applications for a special purpose charter for “fintech companies engaged in the business of banking.”Over the eighteen months since President Trump signed an executive order outlining the core principles for financial regulation under his watch, the fintech sector has been gripped by policy uncertainty and the looming threat of regu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 1, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Diego Zuluaga Source Type: blogs
New evidence for the “propinquity effect” – mere physical closeness increases our liking of desirable people and things
By Emma Young
The idea that we prefer desirable objects – and people – that are physically closer to us has been around for decades. All other things being equal, a potentially dangerous animal that’s close is known to seem scarier than one that’s further away, and it’s been suggested that, in a mirror effect, a nearby desirable person or object is more enticing or attractive than the same one positioned at some distance.
But although this propinquity effect “continues to be a popular topic in introductory social psychology courses, there are surprisingly few works that offer compelling experimental evid...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Social Source Type: blogs
AusHealthIT Poll Number 433 – Results – 29th July, 2018.
Here are the results of the poll.Does The Huge Singapore Health Data Breach (Of A System Technically Similar To The myHR) Doom The Australian Opt-Out Initiative?
Yes 86% (175)
No 9% (19)
I Have No Idea 4% (9)
Total votes: 203
Basically most think that the huge Singapore Breach was a game changer! With all that has gone on since last Sunday (disappearing documents, political noise etc.) it will be hard to know overall but I am sure it has had a major impact.
Any ins ights welcome as a comment, as usual.
A really, great turnout of votes!
It must have been a slightly harder question as 9/203 readers were not sure wh...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 28, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Wouldn ’t You Have Expected A Press Release From The ADHA On the Singapore Breach Rather Than On Union Discussions?
As we are now all aware there was a rather large and possibly State-Sponsored Cyber Attack on Singapore Health A few weeks ago that has just been revealed.See here:Hackers steal 1.5 million people's personal data in cyber attack on Singapore's health serviceMore than a quarter of city state's population illegally copied by hackers 'looking for embarrassing information about prime minister'Chris Baynes Hackers have stolen personal information about 1.5 million people in a major cyber attack on the Singapore government ’s health database.More than a quarter of the city state’s population was affected by the ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Stark Graphic Outlines The Consequences Of The Singapore Breach!
I spotted this from SingHealth - was worth posting I thought.
What an amazing episode. A warning for all large data-bases.
David
This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David. (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 21, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Singapore Suffers A Huge Health DataBase Compromise - Amazing Timing For Australia.
This was reported a few hours ago...
Singapore suffers 'most serious' data breach, affecting 1.5M healthcare patients including Prime MinisterGovernment describes attack as "deliberate, targeted, well-planned" and assures no medical data has been tempered with, but security vendors warn compromised data may end up for sale on the Dark Web.
By Eileen Yu for By The Way | July 20, 2018 -- 15:55 GMT (01:55 AEST) | Topic: Security
Singapore has suffered its "most serious" data breach, compromising personal data of 1.5 million healthcare patients including that of its Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The affected users...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 20, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
My Observations While Being in Japan: Efficient but Not Simple
As you can see from the archives, I didn’t publish a post here in the first two weeks of July. The reason is that I went to Japan with my family. It was the first time I go there. It’s exciting to observe and experience a new culture!
I’m going to write my observations below, but because I was there for just a few days, they might be wrong or incomplete. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
Without further ado, here are my observations while being in Japan.
1. It’s very punctual.
Every time we took a train there, it always departed on time. If the schedule says 09:56, then at exactly 09:56 the train wi...
Source: Life Optimizer - July 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
My Observations From Being in Japan: Efficient but Not Simple
As you can see from the archives, I didn’t publish a post here in the first two weeks of July. The reason is that I went to Japan with my family. It was the first time I go there. It’s exciting to observe and experience a new culture!
I’m going to write my observations below, but because I was there for just a few days, they might be wrong or incomplete. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
Without further ado, here are my observations from being in Japan.
1. It’s very punctual.
Every time we took a train there, it always departed on time. If the schedule says 09:56, then at exactly 09:56 the train wil...
Source: Life Optimizer - July 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
Trade Warriors Exclude a Third of U.S. Exports from “Trade Deficits”
Private services account for 69% of GDP, and 128.2 million jobs in June. In theBureau of Economic Analysis industry accounts,private service industries“consist of utilities; wholesale trade; retail trade; transportation and warehousing; information; finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing; professional and business services; educational services, health care, and social assistance; arts, entertainment, recreational, accommodation, a nd food services; and other services (except public administration).”Goods-producing industries, by contrast, “consist of agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting; mining;...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 9, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Liquid Biopsy Separates Tumor Cells from Blood Faster Than Ever Before
Biopsies are a sure way to find out if a patient really has a neoplastic tissue in the body. While highly accurate, biopsies are only useful if one has a lesion to sample. Many tumors are well hidden and difficult to reach, making traditional biopsies effectively impossible. But, tumors tend to shed cells that end up swimming in the blood stream. While these cells are very problematic, as they cause metastasis, they are also perfect biomarkers that point to the existence of cancer within the body. Spotting them within a drawn blood sample is known as a “liquid biopsy,” and many research groups around the world ...
Source: Medgadget - July 5, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Genetics Pathology Source Type: blogs
North Korea Revelations Should Neither Surprise the U.S. Nor Derail Talks
Several media reports citing theU.S. intelligence community andarms control experts indicate that North Korea has upgraded its infrastructure for building nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in recent months. The revelations counteractTrump ’s optimistic tweet that “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat [sic] from North Korea” following his summit with Kim Jong Un last month.The United States should not be surprised by these developments. The Trump-Kim summit was not the culmination of a long, arduous diplomatic process as most summits are, but a high-profile meeting that had far more symbolic value than nitty-gritt...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 3, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
Researchers say it is mistaken to see sexting as “simply harmful”
By Emma Young
Is sexting a good thing, because it’s sexually liberating, or a bad thing, because it’s objectifying? Separate research groups have put forward both arguments. But according to a new study of college students in Hong Kong, it’s both.
It’s estimated that roughly half of US college students (on which most research in this area has been done) send nude or sexually provocative images by phone or the internet. In the new study, reported in the Journal of Sex Research, the proportion was lower (13.6 per cent), perhaps because Chinese culture has a lower level of sexual permissiveness, but sexting was stil...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Sex Technology Source Type: blogs
ACEM 2018 ASM Perth
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Come and join us at the largest annual Emergency medicine conference in the Southern Hemisphere – the ACEM ASM 2018 scientific meeting is being held in Perth, 18-22 November 2018
The theme for this years conference is ‘Emergency Medicine – On the Edge’ and has 4 awesome keynote Speakers
ANZ legends Dr Martin Than from Christchurch and Assoc Prof Anna Holdgate from Sydney.
International heavyweights – Dr Ken Milne of thesgem.com and Batdoc fame and foundin...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 20, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Peter Allely Tags: Conference ACEM ACEM ASM 2018 perth Source Type: blogs
Google ’ s Masterplan for Healthcare
Verily, Calico, Deepmind, more than 150 patents in life sciences and countless collaborations with pharma companies. The search engine’s parent company, Alphabet takes its move into healthcare and medicine seriously. We looked thoroughly at what Google in healthcare looks like.
My Apple health chatbot referred me to the Amazon hospital where I got Google drugs
It’s 2030, a rainy Tuesday morning in downtown Seattle. While my self-driving car is taking me to a digital health symposium, I’m working on my keynote speech. Suddenly I receive a notification from my Apple health chatbot, Miri. The sensors measured my blood...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 19, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Genomics AI calico digital health genetics google google deepmind Healthcare Innovation longevity research tech technology verily Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Financial And Political News Relevant To E-Health And The Health Sector In General.
June 14, 2018 Edition.Thanks to Trump the G7 Summit has concluded in chaos. Canada is now a US enemy and the world has drifted of it axis....
In Singapore the NK Summit has concluded with a points decision to Kim and DJT looking to have been rather played. Concrete progress is what we need to see now so we are again in the 'time will tell' mode.
In the UK Brexit is getting messier and messier and it is hard to know where it will wind u p.
In OZ we are to have a national apology to the victims of child sexual abuse and the endless bye-election campaign drags on!
Also we are seeing some rumblings from the Reserve Bank t...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 14, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
