This book looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual. Rob Shields shows how the construction of virtual worlds has a long history. He examines the many forms of faith and hysteria that have surrounded computer technologies in recent years. Moving beyond the technologies themselves he shows how the virtual plays a role in our daily lives at every level. The virtual is also an essential concept needed to manage innovation and risk. It is real but not actual, ideal but not abstract. The virtual, he argues, has become one of the key organizing principles of contemporary society in the public realms of politics, business and consumption as well as in our private lives.
Accolade is independent of Blue Shield of California and is contracted by Blue Shield to provide an integrated member experience by enabling access to virtual primary care and mental health services as well as support virtual specialty care service.
Since VirtualShield runs fine on Ubuntu, I checked that OS to see how those files are set up. The shell script is programmed to copy essential VirtualShield files into the /usr/share/virtualshield folder. It also creates a VirtualShield desktop icon. None of those files get created when using the VirtualShield installer in Mint20.
The final step is the one to download and install the libraries for the virtual shield, and unfortunately, since they have not yet been included in the Library Manager, we have to proceed with the manual installation. Luckily, the operation is not an excessively complex one: you just have to download the repository and to copy the whole content in the folder in which the IDE keeps all the libraries (typically Documents\Arduino\libraries).
As for the position reading, we will use a class of the Virtual Shield that has been specifically designed for this purpose; as for Text, it is initialized by transferring the shield item, which it will use in order to communicate with the phone:
Finally, the fact of using a virtual shield (that has a very large series of sensors available) gives us the possibility to extend our project in the future, without having to act on the circuit. For example, we could make it produce a sound or synthesize a vocal message when we get close to the gate: for such a purpose, just a few more code lines in the sketch would be needed.
Accolade (Nasdaq: ACCD) provides millions of people and their families with an exceptional healthcare experience that is personal, data driven, and value-based to help every person live their healthiest life. Accolade solutions combine virtual primary care, mental health support, and expert medical opinion services with intelligent technology and best-in-class care navigation. Accolade's Personalized Healthcare approach puts humanity back in healthcare by building relationships that connect people and their families to the right care at the right time to improve outcomes, lower costs and deliver consumer satisfaction. Accolade consistently receives consumer satisfaction ratings of over 90%. For more information, visit accolade.com.
BOSTON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts ("Blue Cross MA") is introducing a new virtual primary care option starting Jan. 1, 2023. The new "Virtual Care Team Feature" enables members to receive comprehensive virtual health care through a team that includes dedicated primary care providers who can treat certain mental health issues and provide health coaching from two national health care providers, Carbon Health and Firefly Health. This feature will be included in the majority of Blue Cross MA commercial health plans so that members nationwide can choose to try these innovative care models.
"More consumers are using virtual care and experiencing its benefits, including greater convenience and affordability," said Blue Cross Chief Commercial Officer Patrick Gilligan. "We're excited to offer members access to two primary care practices offering the most comprehensive virtual primary care models we've seen. They go beyond traditional primary care to help members take control of their health in a way that's convenient and fits their lifestyle."
Eligible members can choose their designated virtual primary care provider (PCP) through either Carbon Health or Firefly Health. Each PCP will provide comprehensive virtual primary care with integrated mental health and access to in-person care with in-network providers when needed. The virtual PCP model offers an enhanced experience at lower cost for members, including:
"We believe virtual primary care is a safe and effective way to reach patients who have not traditionally engaged with PCPs," said Dr. Ashley Yeats, Blue Cross' vice president of medical operations. "Research shows that patients who have an established primary care physician achieve better health outcomes than those who don't. They are more likely to receive important preventive servicesii, and they have fewer hospitalizations and lower rates of emergency department utilizationiii. In addition, their overall health care spend is loweriv, and they report greater satisfaction with their carev."
"From day one, our work at Firefly has been focused on transforming people's experience with health care," said Fay Rotenberg, Firefly Health CEO. "Using our virtual-first model, we believe patients can get expanded access to their providers for superior care and support, while seeing unparalleled satisfaction, better health outcomes, and lower costs. Everyone deserves access to this type of care experience, and we are pleased to work with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to provide this unique offering to their members."
Carbon Health is a leading national health care provider with a mission to make great health care accessible. Carbon Health offers primary and urgent care in nearly two-thirds of the U.S. Leveraging its innovative technology platform, Carbon Health delivers its unique brand of care through an omnichannel model designed to meet patients where they are, and ensure continuous care across a variety of access points, including in-person clinics, virtual care and remote patient monitoring (RPM). Carbon Health also focuses on value-based care and other value-add services to employers, health plans, health systems and other ecosystem partners.
Firefly Health is a virtual-first care innovator on a mission to offer half-priced health care that's twice as good, clinically and emotionally. Through their virtual primary care service, they deliver an unrivaled member experience that seamlessly integrates primary, behavioral and specialty virtual and in-person care.
Virtualization security is a major investment area in Hyper-V. In addition to protecting hosts or other virtual machines from a virtual machine running malicious software, we also need to protect virtual machines from a compromised host. This is a fundamental danger for every virtualization platform today, whether it's Hyper-V, VMware or any other. If a virtual machine gets out of an organization (either maliciously or accidentally), that virtual machine can be run on any other system. Protecting high value assets in your organization, such as domain controllers, sensitive file servers, and HR systems, is a top priority.
To help protect against compromised virtualization fabric, Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V introduced shielded VMs. A shielded VM is a generation 2 VM (supported on Windows Server 2012 and later) that has a virtual TPM, is encrypted using BitLocker, and can run only on healthy and approved hosts in the fabric. Shielded VMs and guarded fabric enable cloud service providers or enterprise private cloud administrators to provide a more secure environment for tenant VMs.
When a tenant creates shielded VMs that run on a guarded fabric, the Hyper-V hosts and the shielded VMs themselves are protected by the HGS. The HGS provides two distinct services: attestation and key protection. The Attestation service ensures only trusted Hyper-V hosts can run shielded VMs while the Key Protection Service provides the keys necessary to power them on and to live migrate them to other guarded hosts.
A shielding data file (also called a provisioning data file or PDK file) is an encrypted file that a tenant or VM owner creates to protect important VM configuration information, such as the administrator password, RDP and other identity-related certificates, domain-join credentials, and so on. A fabric administrator uses the shielding data file when creating a shielded VM, but is unable to view or use the information contained in the file.
The shielding data file (PDK file) provides assurances that the VM will be created in the way the tenant intended. For example, when the tenant places an answer file (unattend.xml) in the shielding data file and delivers it to the hosting provider, the hosting provider can't view or make changes to that answer file. Similarly, the hosting provider can't substitute a different VHDX when creating the shielded VM, because the shielding data file contains the signatures of the trusted disks that shielded VMs can be created from.
Shielded VMs are intended for use in fabrics where the data and state of the VM must be protected from both fabric administrators and untrusted software that might be running on the Hyper-V hosts. For example, shielded VMs will never permit a VM console connection whereas a fabric administrator can turn this protection on or off for encryption supported VMs.
1 Traditional debuggers that attach directly to a process, such as WinDbg.exe, are blocked for shielded VMs because the VM's worker process (VMWP.exe) is a protected process light (PPL).Alternative debugging techniques, such as those used by LiveKd.exe, aren't blocked.Unlike shielded VMs, the worker process for encryption supported VMs doesn't run as a PPL so traditional debuggers, such as WinDbg.exe, will continue to function normally.
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