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Highlands, Texas is a small community on the outskirts of Houston that sits beside the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund Site. The two pits, just shy of 34 acres combined, were originally built in the 1960s to house waste materials from a paper mill. Last month, based on a request from The Texas Health and Environment Alliance ( THEA ), the State of Texas released a cancer rate assessment that determined that a 250-square-mile area along the San Jacinto River, including the Superfund Site,
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When the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health in Worcester opened its digital hub last fall, it provided a glimpse of what the future of remote care management could look like. The 20,000-square-foot space, referred to as a digital hospital, merged many of the health systems remote patient monitoring functions into one building. The structure is fully equipped with computers and monitors that allow experts to do remote clinical monitoring of patients in the intensive care units and their
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