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Police, cancer researchers team up to track stolen vehicles

Yahoo! News May 03, 2024
Jeff Tyner, Ph.D., discusses a research collaboration with the Portland Police Bureau using a data-driven approach to increase the rate of recovering stolen vehicles. Tyner says, “I think the results that the PPB team has been able to deliver have been phenomenal, in terms of their ability to use the data, train their officers and to be much more precise and efficient with how they can identify stolen vehicles."

Police, cancer researchers team up to track stolen vehicles

ABC News May 03, 2024
Jeff Tyner, Ph.D., discusses a research collaboration with the Portland Police Bureau using a data-driven approach to increase the rate of recovering stolen vehicles. Tyner says, “I think the results that the PPB team has been able to deliver have been phenomenal, in terms of their ability to use the data, train their officers and to be much more precise and efficient with how they can identify stolen vehicles."

Research: Private Equity Ventures Into Mental Health Facilities

Mirage News May 02, 2024
Private equity firms now account for as much as a quarter of practices providing behavioral health services in some states, a new study finds. “It all comes down to what kind of care they’re providing,” says Jane Zhu, M.D. “If these firms are expanding to increase access for people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to receive behavioral health treatment, that could be positive.”

National study looks to prevent Alzheimer’s; local woman takes part

Columbia Gorge News May 01, 2024
Columbia Gorge News profiles a woman from The Dalles, Oregon, who is participating in a multisite Alzheimer's clinical trial through OHSU. Charles Fennell says, “We have a lot of experts, and we do research, we do clinics, aging and technology at OHSU. There’s a vast amount of research going on, and a lot of minds that are very respected within the Alzheimer’s field, so it was kind of natural for us to pick up a study of this magnitude.”

PE firms creep into another health care realm, OHSU study finds

Washington-Oregon Biotech Networks May 01, 2024
Private equity firms now account for as much as a quarter of practices providing behavioral health services in some states, a new study finds. “It all comes down to what kind of care they’re providing,” says Jane Zhu, M.D. “If these firms are expanding to increase access for people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to receive behavioral health treatment, that could be positive.”

Private Equity Owns 6.2% of Mental Health, 7.1% of Addiction Treatment Facilities

Behavioral Health Business May 01, 2024
Private equity firms now account for as much as a quarter of practices providing behavioral health services in some states, a new study finds. “It all comes down to what kind of care they’re providing,” says Jane Zhu, M.D. “If these firms are expanding to increase access for people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to receive behavioral health treatment, that could be positive.”

Study finds private equity expanding to mental health facilities

EurekAlert May 01, 2024
Private equity firms now account for as much as a quarter of practices providing behavioral health services in some states, a new study finds. “It all comes down to what kind of care they’re providing,” says Jane Zhu, M.D. “If these firms are expanding to increase access for people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to receive behavioral health treatment, that could be positive.”

World's 1st case of brain disease from fentanyl inhalation: Case study

Becker's Clinical Leadership April 30, 2024
OHSU treats the world's first documented case of toxic leukoencephalopathy caused by illicit fentanyl inhalation. Chris Eden, M.D., says, “We know very well the classic opiate side effects: respiratory depression, loss of consciousness, disorientation. But we don’t classically think of it causing possibly irreversible brain damage and affecting the brain, as it did in this case.”
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