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What Hospitals Can Do to Protect Themselves from Ransomware

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Hospitals are increasingly victims of ransomware and other costly cyberattacks. They can protect themselves by preparing response plans for cyber disruptions.

care, force patients to be rerouted to other hospitals, and delay medical tests and procedures. In addition, when hospital staff have no access to electronic health records and rely on manual ... the only cyberattack to hit U.S. hospitals—nor is it likely to be the last. Hackers are targeting the healthcare sector with increasing frequency. According to the US Department of Health and Human ... and public health sector in 2022 than on any other critical infrastructure sector, and the number of attacks has risen since then. In a 2023 survey by the Ponemon Institute, 88 percent of healthcare

14 More COVID-19 Resources that Use Artificial Intelligence

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Andy and Dave, co-hosts of AI with AI, CNA’s popular podcast on artificial intelligence, have compiled a second annotated list of AI developments and resources related to COVID-19.

Bloomberg School of Public Health, is leading an effort to create a curated set of pandemic papers. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium focuses on quality over quantity. It complements OpenAI's CORD-19 effort. The Johns Hopkins effort focuses on studies in humans, and the intended readers are primarily health care workers and policymakers, as well as researchers. Discussed on "AI ... and a national health system. Discussed on "AI with AI" Podcast 3.27 https://covidcast.cmu.edu/ Facebook & Carnegie Mellon University COVID-19 Symptom Map: https://covid-survey.dataforgood.fb.com

COVID-19's Maximum Pressure Campaign on North Korea

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The spread of COVID-19 across the world is redefining the political and economic realities of every country on the planet. Every day sees scores of articles detailing how gmany are coping with the challenge.

the population, the health care system would likely flounder completely. The North Korean regime’s initial response was rapid and forceful. While it does not excel at providing food or medicine to its ... epidemics to be a matter of national security, and the regime announced that it was implementing a “national emergency anti-epidemic system” for the country. Public health crises are a critical threat ... , allowing them to quarantine until the meeting. If the virus has not been contained, this could be a great risk to the personal health and safety of North Korea’s elites. (Kim Jong Un himself

Law Enforcement-Community Engagement

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As law enforcement agencies navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and increased calls for social justice, agencies with robust community engagement programs have had more successful public health education efforts.

more successful public health education efforts. /images/InDepth/Post78.jpg Law Enforcement-Community Engagement 78 Jessica Dockstader, Tom Woodmansee and Abdi Mohamed Jessica Dockstader is a Research ... navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and increased calls for social justice after the death of George Floyd in May 2020, agencies with robust community engagement programs have had more successful public health education efforts and have maintained continuity of care with hard-to-reach communities. Still, some challenges remain for these agencies. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) and its law

COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain

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President-elect Biden announced plans to release nearly all available COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. when he takes office in an effort to speed up delivery of the vaccine to Americans.

with vaccine registration systems, lack of funding and resources, and, in some cases, lagging demand among health care workers. It’s hard to see how increasing vaccine flow to states and localities will help ... to Americans. /images/InDepth/post72.jpg COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain 72 Eric Trabert Eric Trabert serves as Director and Chief Scientist of the Center for Public Health Preparedness and Resilience. Last ... is littered with logistical hurdles. In our conversations with state and local health officials, a primary concern was the lack of having qualified and trained personnel to safely administer the vaccine

What Did the Summit of The Americas Accomplish?

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The Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles exposed rocky U.S. relations with Latin America, due to regional turmoil and U.S. paralysis, writes Ralph Espach.

incapable of passing laws to address national crises such as health care or even budgets. So it is no surprise it cannot address its policy failures in Latin America or fund a vision for improvement

Pacific Connectivity and Tonga’s Volcanic Eruption

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April Herlevi explains how telecommunications infrastructure in Tonga was damaged by the volcanic eruption and the challenges it created for aid efforts.

sector for many PICs. However, the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to travel out of fear that the disease would overwhelm relatively limited health care systems in many PICs. Tonga declared a state

Prepare, Prepare, Prepare… For Hurricane Season

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Ingrid. Sandy. Irene, Erika. Irma. Florence, Maria. Katrina. And now Dorian! Just the mention of these names might trigger fear and anxiety in some living in North America.

in shelters. In the past, some home health agencies couldn’t find their evacuated clients; fire departments wasted precious time searching for citizens who signed up for transportation assistance ... to ensure adequate supplies and care while avoiding overburdened hospitals. Prepare separate evacuation plans for critical businesses. CNA analysts have found some gas stations and grocery store

ai with ai: Self-aware Bag of Atomic Camels

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For research topics, Andy and Dave discuss the task-agnostic self-modeling machine from Columbia University, a robotic arm that learns to build an approximate model of itself and then interact with the world; they also discuss the over-hyped reporting of the research. A much less hyped, but possibly more groundbreaking research from MIT results in a robot that can play the tower-block game Jenga, using multisensory fusion to do so. More research from MIT attempts to synthesize probabilistic programs for automatic data modeling. Research from the University of Tubingen shows that approximating convolutional neural nets with bag-of-local-features modeling yields decent results with ImageNet. And the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for AI announce the Atlas of Machine Commonsense (ATOMIC), a collection of 877k textual descriptions of inferential knowledge, which allows more accurate inference for previously unseen events. In announcements of the week, DARPA announces the Competency-Aware Machine Learning (CAML) program for ML systems to assess their own performance; and Measuring Biological Aptitude (MBA) attempts to link genotype to phenotype in order to improve recruiting, training, and other aspects. The U.S. Navy’s Sea Hunter drone ship completes an autonomous trip from San Diego to Hawaii and back. The "Papers with Code" archive attempts to collect and link ML-related papers, code, and evaluation tables. The U.S. Army activates its AI Task Force at Carnegie Mellon. And the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2019 has been announced for 6-9 May 2019. In media of the week, the World Intellectual Property Organization releases its report on the Technology Trends of 2019; the AMA Journal of Ethics publishes an entire (open-access) issue devoted to AI in health care; the Congressional Research Service updates its report on AI and National Security; Dan Simmons provides a hefty tome on Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms, and Julian Togelius publishes a book on Playing Smart. Wake Word is the Game of the Week, and in videos, Super Bowl ads provided a variety of glimpses into life with robots.

(open-access) issue devoted to AI in health care; the Congressional Research Service updates its report on AI and National Security; Dan Simmons provides a hefty tome on Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms

CNA Analysts Share How 9/11 Impacted Their Careers

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Eight CNA analysts share the stories of how the events of September 11, 2001, shaped their careers.

was in cancer research, but the attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax mailings spotlighted massive deficiencies in our nation’s public health and health care systems to respond to mass casualty ... a call. We had been working with the DC Department of Health on bioterrorism preparedness, and they urgently asked for our help in developing a plan to distribute a CDC “push pack” of antibiotics ... , I and other CNA colleagues worked with a variety of agencies on post-9/11 initiatives, including FEMA and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at Health and Human