Journal is dr. Joseph kvedar, the president elect of the American Telemedicine Association. Dr. Kvedar, thank you for being with us. Tell us the mission of your association and the members you serve. Guest i am delighted to be on with you this morning for such an important topic at such an important time. The ata was formed almost i think 27 years ago, and really the mission is to both educate and advocate, really, for a new model of care delivery, which is enabled by communications technologies. Im sure we will talk about what that means. The members are from a variety of sectors. Folkse a robust group of who supply technologies and services to the industry. We have a number of quite a few Health Care Provider organizations like my own Partners Health care, mass general at womens in boston. Some of the health plans and folks at the payment industry as well. Thatis largely the groups encumber our membership. Kvedar, joining us this morning to talk about telemedicine, telehealth, use of
Our clerk is miss erica major from before miss major gives any announcements, i want to thank all of the staff from the clerk of the board who are bringing this Virtual Meeting to everybody who is participating and watching. Thank you to john c. And author thorougarthurcoo. The board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are close. However, members will be participating remotely as if they were present. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Channel 26 and sf gov tv are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak via phone by calling 888 2045984. The access code is 3511558 and then press pound. You will be lined up in the system in the order you died, 1 and 0. While youre waiting, the system will be silent. Thank you, madam clerk. Could you please call the first item. Sure. Item number one is a resolution renaming the 200 block of stewart street to stewart lane to h
Screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak via phone by calling 888 2045984. The access code is 3511558 and then press pound. You will be lined up in the system in the order you died, 1 and 0. While youre waiting, the system will be silent. Thank you, madam clerk. Could you please call the first item. Sure. Item number one is a resolution renaming the 200 block of stewart street to stewart lane to honour william m. Executer. Stewart. Members should call in and present 1 and the number provided. Thank you, miss major. This item was brought to us by supervisor haney and his staff. Anabigail, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair peskin. Good afternoon. Thank you for considering this item. The designation of this 200 block of stewart to lane serves several purposes as residential use. The new residential building is replacing a sevenstory garage whose entrance was at 75 howard and only address will be impacted as there are no other buildi
The corona outbreak has reduced travel and Industrial Production and resulted in a dip in Carbon Emissions so in that sense its actually improving the health of the planet but the Environmental Impact of Animal Agriculture for example from maines massive. 2016 global Greenhouse Gas emissions total 51. 00 tonnes of which more than 7 gigatons were caused by meat and dairy companies. To meet the targets set by the paris climate agreement global Greenhouse Gas emissions have to be reduced to 13 gigatons by 2050 but if the meat and dairy industry continues down its current path its annual emissions are expected to exceed 10. 5 times with devastating impact on the climate in new zealand. Sheep farmers are coming under increasing public and political pressure to. Sheep as far as the eye can see and what looks like boundless freedom for Randall Aspinall hes the 4th generation of sheep farmers a new zealand south island. Farmers have always been valued in new zealand they are the backbone of th
This is thes Transportation Committee for monday, april 13th. Im the chair of the meeting. Our clerk is miss erica major from before miss major gives any announcements, i want to thank all of the staff from the clerk of the board who are bringing this Virtual Meeting to everybody who is participating and watching. Thank you to john c. And author thorougarthurcoo. The board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are close. However, members will be participating remotely as if they were present. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Channel 26 and sf gov tv are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak via phone by calling 888 2045984. The access code is 3511558 and then press pound. You will be lined up in the system in the order you died, 1 and 0. While youre waiting, the system will be silent. Thank you, madam clerk. Could you please call the first item. Sure. It