 records, though other data like email and cell phone number are gaining in their use,” he wrote.
In 2021, the ONC will launch its new initiative, Project US@, in collaboration with standards development organizations — including the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, X12 and Health Level 7 — and members of the Health Standards Collaborative.
The project is mainly focused on giving health IT developers instructions on how to consistently represent patient addresses for data exchange, an ONC spokesperson said in an email.
Research has also shown that standardized demographic information, especially patient addresses, can help improve patient matching. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association in 2019 shows that standardizing mailing addresses using the U.S. Postal Service’s format can improve patient match rates by up to 3%.
Though the USPS address format “is often a starting point for this kind of normalization…it has its limits,” Posnack wrote.
“In follow-up to our commitment in [ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule] and the need expressed by stakeholders for additional constraints and consistency around patient address formatting, Project US@ is reflective of how subtle improvements in health IT can have a big impact when implemented at a national scale,” he wrote.
The violence at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Sunday night reflects poorly on the state of political affairs in India. More than 50 masked men reportedly entered the campus armed with rods, sticks and sledgehammers. They ran amok, attacking students and teachers, and destroying property. More than 30 students were injured, including the chief of the varsity’s students union. Some members of the faculty suffered injuries, too. The union, which is dominated by the youth wings of leftist parties, has highlighted the political affiliations of some victims and accused the right-aligned Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) of orchestrating the attacks. The ABVP, however, has pointed the finger right back, charging leftist groups with the same. A police probe has been ordered to identify the culprits. How the goon squad managed to sneak into JNU, with its outer ring of security, is another matter that needs to be investigated. Also, since the impartiality of the men in uniform has been under question, lately, especially after the recent police action at Jamia Millia Islamia, it would help if the investigation is overseen by a judicial body. There should be no space left for doubt over the facts of the episode. In the interim, bigger questions of how to safeguard our educational campuses need to be addressed as well.
Sunday’s events at JNU have stirred a vigorous debate over law enforcement at our universities and other institutes of higher learning. Under the current arrangement, police forces cannot enter the premises of a university without the express permission of its vice-chancellor or functional head. Many an opinion has been voiced against this “restriction", given the delays it could cause in violence being quelled. Yet, while strict enforcement of law and order under the watchful eye of cops may seem like a solution, it would be unwise to have police personnel posted on campuses. Varsities, by definition, are intellectual enclaves, given to free speech and open debates on any and every issue that thinkers can wrap their minds around. If security fortifications give them a regimental air, it could make students uneasy. For these young men and women, these are spaces that let them think and speak without worrying about adverse consequences; and for earnest discussions to take place and ideas to emerge, it is important that everyone feels at ease.
The quality of a democracy can be judged by the vibrancy of its academic culture—the more argumentative, the better. On this parameter, JNU can be said to be among the country’s top performers. But if the university is to preserve what it seems most proud of, the opportunity it affords young Indians to engage one another across diverse perspectives, its students must take the lead in upholding its values. Their views do not need to converge, but they would do themselves a favour if they joined hands across ideological and other divisions in a display of solidarity against all forms of violence. Perhaps leftist and rightist groups should stage a joint march in condemnation of Sunday’s brutality, and issue avowals of rubbing along just fine despite their differences. This would send a clear signal to any would-be intruder that they will not have the campus fall victim to external designs. It would also reassure a country shocked by what happened there. The most ardently opposed of interlocutors often agree to disagree. So can JNU’s.Nelson Filipe Costa: Concordia University (Canada); PhD, Machine Learning. Nelson is awarded a copy of Penn Discourse Treebank Version 3.0 (LDC2019T05) for his work in discourse relationships and mapping.
Paul Pope: University of Eastern Finland (Finland); MA, Linguistic Data Sciences. Paul is awarded a copy of ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English (LDC2014T06) for his research on text classification.
Abhinav Singh: Sharda University (India); PhD, Forensic Science. Abhinav is awarded a copy of TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus (LDC93S1) for his research on forensic speech recognition.
Lucas Zheng: Deerfield Academy (USA); High School Scholar. Lucas is awarded copies of Arabic Treebank Part 1 v. 4.1 (LDC2010T13) and Arabic Treebank Part 2 v. 3.1 (LDC2011T09) for his work on analyzing syntactic and lexical similarities across MSA genres and POS-tagging for MSA.
Students can learn more about the LDC data scholarship program on the Data Scholarships page.
Applications are now being accepted through January 15, 2023 for the Spring 2023 LDC data scholarship program which provides university students with no-cost access to LDC data. Consult the LDC Data Scholarships page for more information about program rules and submission requirements.In this season of Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for everyone who helps unhappy lawyers find and excel in non-legal careers. In addition to the practical advice and inspiring stories in Life After Law, there are a number of great resources out there for lawyers considering a big change:
Marc Luber’s JDCareersOutThere offers terrific advice for lawyers exploring and changing careers. His “JD Refugee” videos, for “people who are applying their legal skills without practicing law,” should be one of the first stops for JDs considering alternative fields.
Chelsea Callanan’s Happy Go Legal is a coaching service that focuses on new lawyers, but applies a holistic approach to help all lawyers find the best-fitting career. Callanan’s blog and podcasts expand the resources she offers for becoming happier and more successful in whatever you choose to do.
Pace School of Law’s New Directions for Attorneys is a six month career re-entry program for lawyers who have taken time off and want to move either into a legal or an alternative non-legal career. Graduates absolutely rave about this NY-based program, and the staff is phenomenal. The next session starts in January 2014, and there is an info session on November 18 in White Plains.
And speaking of career reentry, I can’t recommend iRelaunch highly enough. Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin have helped thousands of people (including loads of lawyers) relaunch their careers in a wide variety of fields. They offer ongoing training, run conferences around the world, and their newsletters are unusualy useful.
If you’re looking for holiday gifts for yourself or your favorite unhappy lawyer, may I offer some suggestions in addition to Life After Law? One is Allison Rimm’s The Joy of Strategy, which helps readers prioritize and manage their lives in a way that maximizes joy. Rimm is a former VP at Massachusetts General Hospital, a gifted coach and a great writer. Whitney Johnson’s Dare Dream Do is another great choice for people who are trying to envision something better for themselves, but need help getting unstuck. Johnson is an influential Harvard Business Review writer and blogger whose practical wisdom and inspirational messages combine beautifully in this book. And although it’s a classic, I’ll say again that doing the flower diagram in What Color Is Your Parachute? changed my life. What a thrill to see Life After Law “frequently bought together” with WCIYP on Amazon!
Readers, what other resources helped you with your transition? Whose help are you grateful for?
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I too participated in the ‘Love Your Job’ Career Workshop for Women Lawyers conducted by Suzanne Grossman and Jen Bird, and highly recommend it to any female attorneys out there contemplating a job or career change!
I am grateful for the insight, guidance and support provided to me in specially tailored workshops for lawyers called “(Love Your Job)’s Career Workshop for Women Lawyers” – by Suzanne Grossman and Jennifer Bird (). Please check them out! Not to be missed!
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