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Applying The Lessons Learned In Other Industries To Health Care
While grappling with the costs and imperfections of our health care system in recent years, a multitude of experts in the field found it useful and enlightening to compare health care to a variety of more familiar industries, and to suggest that health care should adopt operational models that have been shown to work well in those other industries...
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EyeGo Adapters Let You Perform Eye Exams With A Smartphone
When it comes to thoroughly assessing the condition of someone's eyes, it's usually necessary to utilize large, expensive contraptions such as those found in an ophthalmologist's office. While that's OK in some situations, physicians in rural areas or developing nations might not have access to such technology.
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Free Drug Samples Prompt Skin Doctors To Prescribe Costlier Meds
Dermatologists who accept free tubes and bottles of brand-name drugs are likelier to prescribe expensive medications for acne than doctors who are prohibited from taking samples, a study reports Wednesday. The difference isn't chump change.
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How To Deal With The Campus Sexual Assault Crisis
...This month, the U.S. Department of Education said it was investigating no fewer than 55 institutions of higher learning for possible mishandling of sexual assault complaints; that includes two schools in Los Angeles — Occidental College and USC — as well as UC Berkeley.
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In Kenyan Slum, Mobile Phones Pinpoint Better Water
Single-room shacks with mud walls, metal roofs and dirt floors sleep families of eight here. Plastic bags filled with human waste are thrown into unpaved streets [...].Trash piles up in front of homes and storefronts. The flies are everywhere. People struggle to survive but the appetite for change is strong. Read More »
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Mining Electronic Health Records Reveals Clues Of Harmful Drug Reactions
A study published today in Nature Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics showcases the potential power of sophisticated data analytics when applied to electronic health records on a large scale. Read More »
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MOOCs And The Future Of Russian History In America
At the most recent Slavic Studies convention, I was talking with an old friend about the advent of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). [...] It is already clear that at big-time universities folks are beginning to be concerned that a failure to develop MOOCs could bring real harm to their profile and reputation at home and abroad. Read More »
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Replacing Silicon With Nanotubes Could Revolutionize Tech
Stanford breakthrough could affect everything from smartphones to laptops, cars and smart eyeglasses Read More »
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Stanford Conference To Explore Right To Information And Technology
A global movement has been underway to use innovative technology platforms to record, store, process, and disseminate public information to advance transparency and accountability... Read More »
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Stanford Makes Coursework Available On New Open-Source Platform
Stanford online coursework will be available starting this summer on a new open-source platform, OpenEdX, the university announced Tuesday. Read More »
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Stanford Online Course On Statistics And Medicine Teaches Students Worldwide How To Interpret Data
This summer, nearly 16,000 students are learning how to interpret data and analyze provocative medical questions through Stanford’s free online course “Statistics in Medicine.” Read More »
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Stanford Online Coursework To Be Available On New Open-Source Platform
As part of its effort to promote expanded access to high-quality online learning opportunities around the world, Stanford helps launch the OpenEdX open-source platform and begins offering summer coursework on it. Read More »
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Students Rush To Web Classes, But Profits May Be Much Later
More top colleges are offering free massive open online courses, but companies and universities still need to figure out a way to monetize them.
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Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course
[...] It begins with a celebrated Stanford University academic who decides that he isn't doing enough to educate his students. The Professor is a star, regularly packing 200 students into lecture halls, and yet he begins to feel empty. What are 200 students in an age when billions of people around the world are connected to the Internet? Read More »
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