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Patient-Reported Symptoms May Be Left Out of EMRs: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William

Patient-Reported Symptoms May Be Left Out of EMRs: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS "Patient-reported symptoms may fail to make it into a practice's electronic medical record (EMR), according to a study in JAMA … NEJM Journal Watch." It...
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VC predictions 2017 – Earlybird’s view: Personal insights on the future of tech, business and venture capital.

VC predictions 2017 – Earlybird’s view: Personal insights on the future of tech, business and venture capital.
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Customer Feedback Surveys Considered Harmful

Customer Feedback Surveys Considered Harmful
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The future of advertising is ‘fewer, better ads’: "By giving away stuff for free for so long, we’ve created an ad

The future of advertising is ‘fewer, better ads’: "By giving away stuff for free for so long, we’ve created an ad economy that is bigger than it should be," Deep Focus CEO Ian Schafer says.
Source: recode.net

If it wants British businesses to do well, the British Government should stop Brexit: “I’m from the government and I’m

If it wants British businesses to do well, the British Government should stop Brexit: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan said these were the nine most terrifying words in the English language. It was a joke, but for a quarter of a century British ministers took Reagan’s...
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Paramedics spend 500,000 hours outside busy A&Es, say auditors: Ambulance trusts breaching call response targets and struggling

Paramedics spend 500,000 hours outside busy A&Es, say auditors: Ambulance trusts breaching call response targets and struggling to recruit and retain staff, National Audit Office finds
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Campaign to adopt Wales' organ donation law in England - BBC News: A campaign for Wales' organ donation laws to be adopted

Campaign to adopt Wales' organ donation law in England - BBC News: A campaign for Wales' organ donation laws to be adopted in England is launched by a mother whose daughter needed a transplant.
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Deep learning network as good as medics at identifying skin cancers. "While there are still many visual tasks where humans

Deep learning network as good as medics at identifying skin cancers. "While there are still many visual tasks where humans perform better than computers, computers are catching up. Part of the reason for computers' progress has been the development of what are called "deep neural networks," which chain...
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China, already dominant in supercomputers, shoots for an exascale prototype in 2017 - ExtremeTech: China is working on a

China, already dominant in supercomputers, shoots for an exascale prototype in 2017 - ExtremeTech: China is working on a prototype exascale (1,000-petaflop) system that it aims to complete by the end of this year, according to state media.
Source: extremetech.com

Paradigm change and an explanation of science as a social construct. Review of Khun's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".

Paradigm change and an explanation of science as a social construct. Review of Khun's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". I've been meaning to read this for sometime and it was worth it. The 50th anniversary edition has an excellent introduction by Ian Hacking which invites you to ask questions...
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Brexit and Trump explained and how (liberal) globalists have probably got it wrong. "When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism:

Brexit and Trump explained and how (liberal) globalists have probably got it wrong. "When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism: And how moral psychology can help explain and reduce tensions between the two. ... ... globalists often support high levels of immigration and reductions in national sovereignty;...
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How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs: Curfews, sports, and understanding kids’ brain chemistry have all helped dramatically

How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs: Curfews, sports, and understanding kids’ brain chemistry have all helped dramatically curb substance abuse in the country.
Source: theatlantic.com

Association of Body Mass Index with DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Blood Cells and Relations to Cardiometabolic

Association of Body Mass Index with DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Blood Cells and Relations to Cardiometabolic Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Approach Michael M. Mendelson. Riccardo E. Marioni. Roby Joehanes. Chunyu Liu. Åsa K. Hedman. Stella Aslibekyan. Ellen W. Demerath. Weihua Guan....
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Calorie restriction diet extends life of monkeys by years: Macaques on permanent diets live significantly longer – the

Calorie restriction diet extends life of monkeys by years: Macaques on permanent diets live significantly longer – the equivalent of nine years in people. But is the detailed meal planning and loss of libido worth it?
Source: newscientist.com

Feds Call Tesla's AutoPilot Safe: Not only does NHTSA exonerate AutoPilot for the May 2016 fatality, it credits the system

Feds Call Tesla's AutoPilot Safe: Not only does NHTSA exonerate AutoPilot for the May 2016 fatality, it credits the system for reducing crashes by 40 percent overall
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Study suggests top humanities journals favor research from elite institutions: Study suggests top humanities journals favor

Study suggests top humanities journals favor research from elite institutions: Study suggests top humanities journals favor research by professors working at or who earned Ph.D.s at elite institutions.
Source: insidehighered.com

The Big Shift in Platform Business Models: Everywhere you look today, platform businesses are in the news. Most of the stories

The Big Shift in Platform Business Models: Everywhere you look today, platform businesses are in the news. Most of the stories focus on what platforms do. Some highlight the value they provide in terms of ease and convenience in connecting with needed resources. Others focus on the...
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