Originally published on May 7, 2021 5:08 pm
The musicians of Rochester have skills other than making music. Charles Jaffe excels in marquetry, the art of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns, designs or pictures. On this HomeStage, Jaffe combines both - a song and marquetry he s working on. (Also check out all the HomeStage performances here)
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The 300-plus members of the Vaccination Credential Initiative announced earlier this month that the verifiable, interoperable vaccination record technology they ve been working on since January should be generally available in May.
WHY IT MATTERS Effective vaccination credentials – don t call them vaccine passports – depend on an equitable and privacy-preserving approach to verifiable data sharing – enabling vaccinated individuals to show proof (in digital or paper form) for safe return to school, work, travel and public events.
The Vaccination Credential Initiative has steadily added health and technology organizations over the past four months, each working to innovate and expand easy digital access to vaccination records.
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Last year, Kenny Robinson often called the Godfather of Canadian comedy marked the 25th anniversary of his Nubian show, which helped kickstart the careers of Black and POC comics like Russell Peters, Jean Paul, Keith Pedro, and Dana Alexander.
He marked the occasion with a CD release,
Kenny Robinson’s Nubian Comedy Revue: The Next 25, and before the pandemic’s second wave he was hoping to follow it up with a Nubian Queens Of Comedy album featuring all-female comics and hosted by Keesha Brownie.
As COVID vaccinations ramp up with a third vaccine authorized for use, community leaders and health officials across California are pushing to see that LGBTQ individuals sign up to get inoculated. Yet there will be no way to know just how many LGBTQ people get a shot.
The state s public health department is not tracking vaccinations among LGBTQ Californians, the Bay Area Reporter has learned. The lack of gathering sexual orientation and gender identity data related to the vaccines comes as California health officials remain blind to just how widespread COVID-19 has been within the Golden State s LGBTQ population. We just confirmed the state is collecting no SOGI data on vaccines, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) told the B.A.R. March 2. I think this points to a broader issue, and I want to be really frank that we don t see health care providers and counties and the state constantly quibbling and making excuses around race and age and gender data. They just collec
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Health Level Seven International (HL7®) and the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) network announced a collaboration to address the sharing and tracking of data in the healthcare and research industries by creating a single common data model. The organizations will integrate HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) and OHDSI s Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) common data model to achieve this goal.
HL7 International CEO Dr. Charles Jaffe, M.D., Ph.D., underscored the significance of this partnership. The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasized the need to share global health and research data. He continued, Collaboration with OHDSI is critical to solving this challenge and will help our mutual vision of a world in which everyone can securely access and use the right data when and where they need it.