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Parents Are Growing More Concerned About This Type of Addiction

Internet addiction has surpassed drug use as a top concern for parents of teens, according to an eye-opening study published in JAMA Network Open.1 In a survey of 1,005 parents, twice as many cited concerns about internet addiction compared to substance addiction among their 9- to 15-year-old children. With excessive internet use linked to a… Read More »

oneM2M specifications approved by more than 190 ITU member countries as ITU standard to simplify IoT adoption

More than 190 ITU-T member countries have approved oneM2M specifications as ITU standard, simplifying the IoT ecosystem lifecycle by minimizing development, deployment, and maintenance costs. The ITU-T’s SG20 Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities and communities (SC&C) approved oneM2M’s security specifications for IoT systems as part of the ITU-T Y.4500.3 series, making the entire… Read More »

How Road Salt Does More Harm Than Good

Sodium Chloride (NaCl), also known as table salt or rock salt, is the most common compound used for deicing roads and highways in the U.S.1 While it’s extremely effective at melting snow and ice, the 20 million tons of salt used for highway deicing annually2 in the U.S. doesn’t stay put on the roads. Road… Read More »

More innovation, funding and partnerships urgently needed to improve children’s palliative care worldwide

New UK research sets out an “unashamedly optimistic” vision to improve care for children with life-limiting conditions worldwide London, UK – Wednesday 12 October 2022 – A new report into Children’s Palliative Care (CPC) worldwide has set out a vision for how to radically improve the levels of care for the rapidly growing number of… Read More »

It takes more than hope to protect PHI

Safeguarding patient health information can be extremely difficult, as it necessitates taking inventory of data, finding any vulnerabilities and assessing risk across the board.    Often, experts say, the complexity of mitigating risk is beyond human scale. In an upcoming HIMSS21 panel, Aaron Miri, chief information officer for Dell Medical School and UT Health Austin,… Read More »