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Google DeepMind is giving the NHS free access to its patient monitoring app | Business Insider

Google's DeepMind has partnered with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation to bring Google's Streams patient-monitoring app to NHS hospitals.

Care coordination dashboards to boost Rhode Island population health program | Healthcare IT News

The Rhode Island Quality Institute and the Integra Community Care Network are using care management alerts to coordinate care.

Google begins removing private medical records from search results | The Guardian

Google may now take down the "confidential, personal medical records of private people" from search results. The last time the company made a change to its scrubbing policy was in 2015, when it began allowing the removal of sexually explicit images of a person without that person's consent.

Ransomware attack at oxygen vendor affects 500,000 patients | Health Data Management

A data breach at Airway Oxygen affected half a million patients and more than 1,000 employees. Their names, addresses, telephone numbers, diagnoses and other information were breached.

Safety, quality and clinical practice

Kaiser Permanente fined—again—for mental health access problems

Kaiser Permanente has not given its members sufficient access to mental healthcare, according to survey conducted by the state of California.

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The mere presence of your smartphone reduces brain power, study shows | Science Daily

When your smartphone is nearby, it reduces your cognitive capacity, according to a new study. "Your conscious mind isn't thinking about your smartphone, but that process—the process of requiring yourself to not think about something—uses up some of your limited cognitive resources," said one of the researchers.