The landscape of health care innovation is complex and vast, and often leads to a global web of conversations that, very often, run parallel without ever intersecting to collaborate. That space where innovators are working at the fringe toward a similar...
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Oral Health “Mission Possible: Using HIT to Integrate Dental and Medical Care,” by Colin Reusch of Children’s Dental Health Project , December 16, on the Connecticut Health Foundation’s blog. Reusch comments that electronic health records systems that...
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The deputy who was caught on video flipping a student backward as she sat at her desk was fired. But many are asking why he was there in the first place. Read More...
The Washington Post recently featured a piece on the resurgence of “excited delirium” as cause of death for a number of individuals held in police custody. Amnesty International estimates that as many as 75 of more than 300 deaths in police...
...everything starts looking like a nail. Everything. The American Civil Liberties Union has released the results of its year-long study of police militarization. The study looked at 800 deployments of SWAT teams among 20 local, state and federal police agencies in 2011-2012. Among the notable findings...
Police in Madison, WI, receive a "free" Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) military vehicle from the Department of Defense. Of course, they do have all those lefty thugs in Madison... there is that SEIU threat. Just because they want to be like soldiers doesn't mean they should. Just...