COVID-19

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White House Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Open Access Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset

Press Release | White House | March 16, 2020

Today, researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Coronavirus group. Requested by The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the dataset represents the most extensive machine-readable Coronavirus literature collection available for data and text mining to date, with over 29,000 articles, more than 13,000 of which have full text.

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38th VistA Community Meeting [Virtual]

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Conference
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August 28, 2020 - 8:00am - August 30, 2020 - 5:00pm

The VistA community will be holding their 38th VistA community meeting virtually on August 28 to August 30th. The goal of VistA Community Meetings is for those involved in the VistA Community to network & collaborate, i.e., to share ideas and work, with the objective of moving VistA & the VistA community forward.

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ATARC Panel: Preventing Data Breaches from the Edge to the Cloud

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Seminar/Webinar
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January 7, 2021 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Join us for this panel, which sets out to discuss how advancements in the federal cloud space, mobility and distributed workforces have driven the focal point for security to shift. Topic experts will discuss lessons learned in successfully implementing cloud methodologies, tools, and techniques in a time of continuous change and telework. Together, panelists explore available and desired solutions to rectify past and pre-empt potential future data breaches, as both citizens and the government agencies serving them embrace “the new normal”.

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Break ‘Em Up: How Health Care Monopolies Hurt Patients, Health Care Workers, and Communities

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Seminar/Webinar
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March 30, 2021 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm

COVID-19 has levied a heavy toll on the health of our country over the past year, particularly for communities of color. Some of the challenges in managing the pandemic are because of our reliance on a private insurance system, which impacts access and costs of care. But poor outcomes, high costs, and lack of access are caused or exacerbated by a problem that policymakers could begin to address today-unchecked monopoly power. On March 30 at 2:00 p.m. ET, please join Economic Liberties, People's Action, Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), and leading experts and advocates to learn why we need leaders at all levels of government to fight corporate health care monopolies to make our health care system more equitable and resilient. This is the second event in our Break 'Em Up: Redistributing Power to the People series, which highlights how progressives can organize around anti-monopoly fights to advance economic and racial justice. The first focused on how to center worker rights in corporate power fights.

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39th VistA Community Meeting

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 22, 2021 (All day) - October 24, 2021 (All day)

The VistA community will be holding their 39th VistA community meeting virtually on October 22 to 24. The goal of VistA Community Meetings is for those involved in the VistA Community to network & collaborate, i.e., to share ideas and work, with the objective of moving VistA & the VistA community forward.

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