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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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One marketing expert says consumers who game the returns system are not helping the situation
Regardless of work location, it is critical for organizations to be transparent about performance metrics and keep big-picture goals in mind.
Three years since an Australian Minister last stepped foot in Beijing, Penny Wong is on her way to meet with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
The backdrop to the visit is thawing relations between the two countries and increasingly strained global supply chains.
Guest: Tinglong Dai is a Professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at Johns Hopkins University
The onus is on companies to exercise better due diligence, focusing on high-risk areas, avoiding shady recruiters, improving supply chain visibility and using tech to monitor and authenticate.
Technology companies are shedding jobs at disturbing rates. Those with experience in computing are being laid off, sometimes with little warning. Freshly minted computer science graduates are facing employment headwinds not seen for well over a decade. Is this the next dot-com bubble burst, which could send the economy spiraling downward to new lows?

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