All posts tagged "healthcare"

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  US and EU launch ‘first sweeping AI agreement’ to strengthen public services and emergency response

  The White House and the European Commission have signed an administrative agreement committing each to quickening progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of improving agriculture,

  • Posted February 1, 2023
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  Biden says government is working again as US Senate passes milestone climate change bill

  Senators in the US voted through the night on Sunday to push through president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act – a major piece of legislation that allocates US$454bn to tackle

  • Posted August 8, 2022
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  Australian Treasury to supercharge engagement with academics; women’s health strategy for England unveiled: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed Australian Treasury secretary calls for closer ties between public servants and academics The federal

  • Posted July 28, 2022
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  Biden directs federal agencies to protect abortion access

  President Joe Biden has signed an executive order directing government agencies to use “every tool available to protect access to reproductive health care”.   The move comes after the US

  • Posted July 12, 2022
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  What Canadian healthcare can learn from the UK’s NHS: how digital workers improved critical patient care during COVID-19

  The Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group has a long history of thinking outside the box and driving its patient services to ever higher standards. In the COVID-19 pandemic, this meant using

  • Posted April 20, 2022
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  UK NHS to test AI systems for biases in healthcare

  The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is trialling a programme designed to identify algorithmic biases in systems used to administer healthcare. Its aim is to use Algorithmic Impact Assessments (AIAs)

  • Posted February 14, 2022
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  Building trust in government through data-driven decisions

  Convincing at least 70% of the population to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been one of the biggest challenges faced by the Belgian government in recent decades. To do so,

  • Posted November 18, 2021
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  Thousands of US feds miss vaccine mandate deadline, face discipline

  The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to start disciplining employees after it found that 30% of its 380,000-strong health care workforce had not met the deadline to prove

  • Posted October 28, 2021
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  Overcoming AI bias to empower an equitable society

  Reasoning frameworks of artificial intelligence used in criminal justice and health care systems move us to rethink how AI can be constructed to help foster an equitable society.  We interact daily with algorithms that

  • Posted August 25, 2021
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  Harvard group urges governments to focus on preventing pandemics, not responding to them

  An expert group convened by the USA’s Harvard University has urged governments to focus on preventing the creation of new viruses, noting that preventive work is vastly cheaper than responding

  • Posted August 18, 2021
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