Why Trustworthy AI is Key to Preventing the Erosion of Trust at Scale
“With Artificial Intelligence we now have the ability to erode trust at scale”
Reggie Townsend, Vice President of Data Ethics at SAS made that statement to a room full of clients, data analysts, AI experts, and media at the SAS Innovate conference. That attention-grabbing line was Townsend’s opening to an engaging keynote on the need for “Trustworthy AI” and thoughtful incorporation of ethics into the AI conversation.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down one-on-one with Townsend to learn how SAS is infusing ethics and trustworthiness into their operations. We also wanted to hear more about the comp...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System elft University of Technology Erasmus MC Erasmus University Medical Center Health Equity Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Ethics Reggie Townse Source Type: blogs
Domestic Benefits from Foreign Tax Havens
Adam N. MichelForeign investment in low ‐tax countries complements U.S. production and expands global investment.Low ‐tax countries are often derided for either attracting illusory corporate profits without changing true investment behavior or for attracting international investment to the detriment of usually higher‐tax countries. However, research consistently finds that when multinational businesses i nvest abroad, they also increase investment at home.For example, Mihir Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James Hinesfind that“one dollar of additional foreign capital spending is associated with 3.5 dollars of ad...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 31, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
The Continuing Effort to Deny that Libertarian ‐ish Voters Exist
David BoazHere we go again. David Leonhardt of the New York Timesdredges up a poorly designed chart from 2017 that purported to show that there are very few “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” American voters. At the time Karl Smithpointed out some basic design flaws in the analysis. Emily Ekinsnotedthat determining the number of liberal, conservative, libertarian, and populist/ communitarian/statist voters depends very much on the definitions you start with and the issues you choose. She concludes: “The overwhelming body of literature, however, using a variety of different methods and different defin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Affirmative Action in College Admissions
This article appeared onSubstack on May 30, 2023, and an earlier version appeared under Jacob Winter ’s byline in theHarvard Undergraduate Law Review.In a few weeks, the Supreme Court will announce its decision in two cases it heard last fall, one against Harvard and the other against the University of North Carolina. Both suits challenge race‐based affirmative action in college admissions. In each case, a group called Students for Fair Admiss ions (SFFA) argues that the universities’ admissions policies unlawfully discriminate against Asian Americans.The case against UNC rests on two issues. Under the Fourteen...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron, Jacob Winter Source Type: blogs
Fast Facts about Discretionary Spending
Romina Boccia and Dominik LettThe federal government will spend $6.3 trillion in 2023, 27 percent is discretionary and 73 percent is mandatory. Discretionary spending refers to federal programs that receive funding through annual appropriations. Less than half ofdiscretionary spending is for defense. More than half isfor nondefense activitiesincludingeducation, infrastructure, scientific research, and other programs.If Congress does not pass annual appropriations bills before October 1st (the beginning of the federal fiscal year), the government undergoes a partial “shutdown” where non‐essential functions are ha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia, Dominik Lett Source Type: blogs
Denial
I don ' t remember offhand if I mentioned this in my previous post on the subject, but Sarah Palin ' s grotesque lie about " death panels " also contained a reference to a claim by conservative economist Thomas Sowell:The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce
the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out,
government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay
the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the
elderly, and the disabled, of course. Sowell is obviously an ignorant idiot. As you presumably know...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Healthcare in the Overseas Territories and access to UK care
House of Commons Library - The UK has 14 Overseas Territories (OTs), with a population of over 270,000. Ten of the Territories are permanently inhabited by British nationals. Healthcare is a responsibility of elected Territory Governments, though the UK does provide aid assistance to three Territories and allows for a limited number of Territory inhabitants to access free NHS care each year in the UK. This research briefing describes the healthcare systems in the Territories, the responsibilities of the UK Government towards them and the support it provides, and the challenges of delivering healthcare in small commun...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 30, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Operation Searchlight: The American-supported Pakistani genocide you probably haven ’ t heard about
BY ANISH KOKA
On March 25th, 1971, the Pakistani army launched Operation Searchlight, a military campaign to brutally suppress a Bengali nationalist movement.
The roots of the genocide lie in the parting gift British rulers gave to the Indian subcontinent at the time of independence in 1947. British controlled India was separated into Hindu majority India and Muslim majority Pakistan. But because there were two dense non-contiguous Muslim majority areas in British controlled India, the muslim majority country of Pakistan was divided into East and West Pakistan.
East and West Pakistan were linked by religion, b...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Anish Koka Bangladesh Bengali India Operation Searchlight Pakistan Source Type: blogs
The Myth of Stage 1 Pressure Injuries
The current body of knowledge surrounding pressure injuries is replete with myths that have been accepted as fact. A myth is defined as a popular belief, sometimes imaginary, that has no basis in reality but serves to perpetuate an opinion or world view. Stage 1 pressure injuries are one of the common myths ingrained into our wound care lexicon. According to NPIAP criteria, Stage 1 manifests no impairment of skin integrity, with vague and nonspecific criteria that renders its inclusion in the staging system unwarranted and misleading.
The designation of “Stage 1 Pressure Injury” should be eliminated from the st...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - May 28, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care Pressure Injuries & Wound Care bedsore bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer Healthcare Quality Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD pressure sore pressure sores pressure ulce Source Type: blogs
The world is flat
This article also mentions the chemtrails absurdity.Climate change denial and chemtrails go back a long way, basically since right wing politics in the U.S. and Europe went batshit crazy. They obviously didn ' t like the Affordable Care Act, but the reasons they said they didn ' t like it were hallucinatory.Remember Sarah Palin and " death panels "?The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby
with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama ' s ' death panel '
so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ' level of productivity in society. 'That was a total ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 27, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Public Schools Can ’t Force Employees to Support Ideas They Oppose
Thomas A. Berry andNicholas DeBenedettoIn the Fall of 2020, public schools in Springfield, Missouri implemented mandatory “equity” training. All employees of the school district were required to attend a session, not just teachers. The employees were told that if they did not participate, the school district would dock their pay and they could lose necessary professional development credit.The training topics included “Oppression, White Supremacy, and Systemic Racism” and tools on “how to become Anti‐Racist educators.” Training sessions included several interactive exercises that required participants to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry, Nicholas DeBenedetto Source Type: blogs
The HALT Fentanyl Act Doubles Down on Denialism
Jeffrey A. SingerYesterday the House of Representatives voted 289 –133 topass the HALT Fentanyl Act.* Theact permanently classifies fentanyl ‐related substances (FRS)—analogs of fentanyl that differ chemically from analogs currently used medically (e.g.,sufentanil,remilfentanil,alfentanil) —as Schedule 1 drugs. The Drug Enforcement Administrationdefines Schedule 1 drugs as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”Set aside the fact that politicians have no way of knowing that future analogs have no potential medical use (think of all those years lost intreating mental hea...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
The Supreme Court Strikes Down Home Equity Theft
Thomas A. Berry andIsaiah McKinneyToday, ina unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held that local governments cannot take surplus home equity after liquidating delinquent taxpayers ’ property to pay their tax bill. Typically, if a property owner is behind on her property taxes, governments will take the property, liquidate it, and use the funds to pay off the tax bill and any accrued fees. Most states then return any remainder back to the property owner. However, Minnesota and 13 other states maintained a practice of greedily pocketing any surplus equity instead of returning it to the rightful property owner.That is...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry, Isaiah McKinney Source Type: blogs
Legalizing Organ Sales
This article appeared onSubStack on May 25, 2023.Organ sales are illegal in the United States and most other countries (Iran is a partial exception). The National Organ Transplantation Act of 1984states, “it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the transfer affects interstate commerce.” The penalty for breaking the law is a fine of $50,000 or up to five years in prison , or both.In Libertarian Land, organ markets are legal. This makes everyone better off.Consider first kidneys. People have ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron Source Type: blogs
Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability
The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer. Perhaps interoperability can gain more traction by putting a focus on getting more organizations on board the interoperability train.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to discuss this topic with Scott Turicchi, CEO at Consensus Cloud Solutions, the world’s largest digital fax provider. Consensus h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops CHIR cloud fax solutions Consensus Cloud Solutions FHIR Healthcare Fax Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Source Type: blogs
