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CCGs spend millions on referral management schemes of questionable effectiveness - Hospital Dr

CCGs spend millions on referral management schemes of questionable effectiveness - Hospital Dr
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk

Food Allergy Guidelines Updated to Include Advice on Preventing Peanut Allergy: By Joe Elia Edited by André Sofair, MD,

Food Allergy Guidelines Updated to Include Advice on Preventing Peanut Allergy: By Joe Elia Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS Comprehensive advice on preventing peanut allergy has been added to the 2010 guidelines issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Source: jwatch.org

Time to pay up: "Websites and email newsletters will remain the two most important tools for independent news publishing

Time to pay up: "Websites and email newsletters will remain the two most important tools for independent news publishing and distribution, three decades running."
Source: niemanlab.org

How Can We Empower Women to End Poverty?: “We’re the first generation of people who do really know what the cure for

How Can We Empower Women to End Poverty?: “We’re the first generation of people who do really know what the cure for poverty is. It eluded people for a long, long time. The cure for poverty has a name, in fact. It’s called the empowerment of women.” - Christopher Hitchens
Source: thelifeyoucansave.org

Medgadget's Best Medical Technologies of 2016 |: The year 2016 presented the world with a number of big surprises. Some

Medgadget's Best Medical Technologies of 2016 |: The year 2016 presented the world with a number of big surprises. Some positive, some negative, depending on whom one asks. Here at Medgadget, 2016 will be
Source: medgadget.com

Human Interaction to the Bot Power — Could Chatbots Be the Future of Marketing?: In the first week of November, Dharmesh

Human Interaction to the Bot Power — Could Chatbots Be the Future of Marketing?: In the first week of November, Dharmesh Shah, CTO of HubSpot, stood before a huge crowd of 19,000 excited conference attendees at the…
Source: chatbotsmagazine.com

What to Learn from US Govt Strategy on AI. There is an urgency. It's commercial. China is already in the lead. There is

What to Learn from US Govt Strategy on AI. There is an urgency. It's commercial. China is already in the lead. There is no clear vision where to focus funding. The US has a good roadmap and wants to expand the workforce. The US is not going for general intelligence. "On October 12, 2016, President...
Source: digitopoly.org

V2V - vehicle to vehicle communication is coming ... perhaps. "Feds push hard for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, at

V2V - vehicle to vehicle communication is coming ... perhaps. "Feds push hard for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, at least until Jan. 20 - ExtremeTech: Feds want V2V short-range safety communications on cars in the next five years. Whether that happens depends more on President Trump's transportation...
Source: extremetech.com

Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures.

Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures. The potential for quality-linked reimbursement to incentivized improved quality of care, however, depends critically on whether physician quality can be measured reliably."
Source: healthcare-economist.com

NHS England sending anorexic patients to Scotland for treatment: Mental health experts voice concern over growing trend

NHS England sending anorexic patients to Scotland for treatment: Mental health experts voice concern over growing trend and say it could increase vulnerable patients’ chances of dying
Source: theguardian.com

End-of-Rotation House Staff Changes Linked to Increased Patient Mortality: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild,

End-of-Rotation House Staff Changes Linked to Increased Patient Mortality: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM Resident and intern service changes are associated with increased mortality among hospitalized patients, suggests a retrospective...
Source: jwatch.org

The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming

The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming cheap, like the cost of communication or finding information. Machine intelligence is, in its essence, a prediction technology, so the economic shift will center around a drop in the...
Source: digitopoly.org

Digital-native outlets in Europe are more pragmatic than innovative, report suggests

"Digital-native news outlets in Europe tend to be more focused on delivering quality journalism than on creating new business models or innovating about ways news is presented, according to a new report from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that studied 12 online startups in France,...
Source: niemanlab.org

Germany's Aggressive Switch to Renewables Will Save €149 Billion: The country’s goal of lowering its greenhouse gas

Germany's Aggressive Switch to Renewables Will Save €149 Billion: The country’s goal of lowering its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020 is yielding dividends in addition to cleaner air.
Source: ieee.org

In a final betrayal of the Cadbury brand, Kraft has quietly abandoned its promise to stick with Fairtrade: When John Cadbury

In a final betrayal of the Cadbury brand, Kraft has quietly abandoned its promise to stick with Fairtrade: When John Cadbury founded his legendary confectionary firm in 1824, he was selling just three products: tea, coffee and – perhaps more predictably – drinking chocolate. With the help of his...
Source: independent.co.uk

Opec may have done the world a good turn for once: It is not often that the interests of an industry cartel and the global

Opec may have done the world a good turn for once: It is not often that the interests of an industry cartel and the global environment are aligned, but the Opec agreement to limit oil production may prove to be just one. The agreement, for the first cut in eight years, had an immediate impact on the...
Source: independent.co.uk

A whole city vows to help its young people apply for college - The Hechinger Report: JACKSON — Like millions of high-school

A whole city vows to help its young people apply for college - The Hechinger Report: JACKSON — Like millions of high-school seniors nationwide, Murrah High School senior Desmond Jones, 17, is preparing to go to college next fall. Jones is interested in attending the University of Southern Mississippi...
Source: hechingerreport.org

Learning Objects Debuts Competency-Based Education Platform -- Campus Technology: The new Competency-Based Learning Platform

Learning Objects Debuts Competency-Based Education Platform -- Campus Technology: The new Competency-Based Learning Platform from Learning Objects supports flipped, fully online, blended and face-to-face instruction.
Source: campustechnology.com

SARA: the Socially Aware Robot Assistant.

In this era of fears that Artificial Intelligence will destroy humanity, SARA is a Socially-Aware Robot Assistant, developed in Carnegie Mellon University’s ArticuLab. SARA interacts with people in a whole new way, personalizing the interaction and improving task performance by relying on information...
Source: cmu.edu

A computer program just ranked the most influential brain scientists of the modern era: Semantic Scholar extends its reach

A computer program just ranked the most influential brain scientists of the modern era: Semantic Scholar extends its reach to neuroscience, analyzing millions of science articles. What will the business of intelligent agents look like in coming years? The successful ones will be those with the best...
Source: sciencemag.org