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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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A number of startups and cloud service providers are starting to offer tools for monitoring, evaluating, and correcting problems with generative AI in the hope of eliminating errors, hallucinations, and other systemic problems associated with this technology.
A shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday left three people dead, including the shooter, and several wounded. With a tragedy like this, we are faced with people dying unnecessarily and prematurely. In this case, young children were involved, making the event even more horrific and disturbing.
Jargon is the death of communication, but there are some terms worth learning to better understand the new world of online holiday shopping. “Generative AI” and “algorithms” are two concepts worth knowing something about.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- With less than a week until Christmas, thousands of deliveries are coming in and out the Amazon shipping center in South Philadelphia.
Reports of drones hovering in the skies over the Northeast have drawn angst among people in the area and across the nation. Government officials have continually assured the population that there is no threat. Yet the drones continue to fly, with no satisfactory explanation being provided as to their owners and their purpose.
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