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Juneteenth Reflection: Honoring the Contributions of Black Individuals to Medical Breakthroughs

While the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863, enslaved people in Texas were not liberated from slavery until June 19, 1865, now called Juneteenth [1]. Although Juneteenth has been celebrated for nearly 150 years, public awareness of its celebration grew in 2020 amid nationwide protests after the police killings of several Black Americans, […]

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The Importance of SOC2

Trust is a key aspect of corporate finance and privacy. The American institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) is a professional organization for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) in the United States, responsible for certifying Service Organization Control (SOC) [2]. SOC encompasses a range of standards and frameworks that help organizations protect their customers’ sensitive data.

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Compliance in Healthcare: How HIPAA Protects Medical Data

   Health information is a broad and varied spectrum of data, which ranges from data related to biological, psychological and social well-being, and therefore must be fiercely protected. In this context, compliance laws are intended to fully protect the health data of patients and research participants, in order to mitigate fraud, misuse for publications in the

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The Internet’s Best Guide to Open-source Medical Imagery Datasets

So you want to build a medical algorithm? Maybe you’re looking for skin images of diverse populations. Perhaps you’re looking for COVID-19 lung nodule CT scans or subarachnoid hemorrhages. While there has been a lot of excitement surrounding big data and the possibilities it poses for natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision, medical A.I.

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