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In most emergency departments, beds are a hot commodity. But some patients don’t actually need a bed for their treatment – and accurately identifying those people is a low-lift but effective way to increase efficiency without sacrificing care quality, finds a study recently published in the journal Management Science.
The researchers developed a simple decision tree, informed by mathematical and machine learning models, to help staff decide whether a patient truly needs a bed or can be routed to a “vertical processing pathway” – that is, an area where they can be treated sitting up. Many hospitals already have such an area but don’t necessarily have a systematic way to decide which patients are treated there.
Diversity alone won’t get the votes for funding public education. It takes communities that are more integrated and connected, where residents have a sense of shared stake.
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"Slopsquatting" exploits AI coding hallucinations by planting malicious packages with fictitious names that automated tools may inadvertently import into software.
As cities are growing due to urbanization, many infrastructure assets cannot meet the demand of an increasing population. Yet, the gap between infrastructure demand and investment is estimated to reach 15 trillion USD by 2040 according to the World Economic Forum. Therefore, industry needs smart, cost-effective strategies to bridge this gap.
Current thinking increasingly treats artificial intelligence (AI) as a scalable substitute for human coaching in digital health. New research published in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science challenges that assumption, finding that access to human coaches in addition to an AI coach leads to significantly greater weight loss than AI coaching alone.
It’s the most common dilemma that serialized digital content platforms face. Should they release an entire book or season at once so audiences can binge, or release chapters or episodes over time to encourage audiences to return?
Most medical devices do not hit the market through rigorous safety testing but by being deemed similar enough to something already approved—the “predicate” device through a mechanism known as the FDA’s 510(k) pathway. But similar is not a synonym for safe. While the assumption may be that substantial equivalence is a reasonable stand-in for a safety review, a share of devices cleared with this method still get recalled, and the FDA spends valuable time reviewing devices the same way, regardless of how risky it is on paper.
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