Ozzie Paez
Analysis and the Bias of Proximity
We are most affected by people, events, and other aspects of our world that are closest to us. It’s an important consideration when...
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"The most dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers will naturally make better, more objective decisions. Making consistently timely, effective, informed decisions takes hard work. Trust me – it’s worth it. Effective decision-making is the essential common ingredient behind every successful step, initiative, and strategy that people, organizations, and national governments undertake."
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Ozzie Paez
- Jun 16, 2022
- 2 min
Improving patient engagement with Biobeat's 24BP
This week I will discuss how the Covid pandemic and innovative new technologies are affecting hypertension control programs and patient...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jan 18, 2022
- 2 min
Patients and innovators in healthcare
My last post demonstrated through an actual case how wearable health monitors and continuous patient monitoring are empowering patients...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jan 6, 2022
- 2 min
Patients driving healthcare innovation
Discussions of innovative medical technologies such as BioBeat’s remote patient monitoring system are usually framed from the...
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
Sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT)
This post focuses on sensing technologies indispensable to many #AI applications in fields like agriculture, medicine, and #epidemiology....
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 4, 2021
- 1 min
Improving models and predictions
My previous post illustrated modeling through the SIR epidemiological model. This one describes how models are updated based on how well...
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Ozzie Paez
- Feb 18, 2021
- 1 min
Modeling Infectious Diseases (SIR)
My last post discussed how #AI, #modeling, and #analytics complement each other and synergistically drive performance and...
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Ozzie Paez
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
AI's indispensable enablers
Artificial intelligence is most effective when complemented with other technologies, particularly modeling and analytics. These are...
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Ozzie Paez
- Oct 5, 2020
- 3 min
Availability heuristic and decisions on thin ice
THIS POST was first published in April 2012. It follows my previous post on heuristics and decision-making. It has been updated to...
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Ozzie Paez
- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
The future of medicines
COVID-19 is helping illuminate how our genetic makeup affects our response to viruses, medicines, and therapies.
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Ozzie Paez
- Jul 21, 2020
- 1 min
Prepare for 2021
Sometimes conditions beyond their control leave business leaders with few good choices...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jun 27, 2020
- 1 min
Benchmarks and uncertainty
he COVID-19 crisis has been exasperating for many of us in part because of contradictory explanations from experts and news sources...
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 17, 2020
- 1 min
Assessing COVID-19 risks
To understand my odds and make good decisions, I needed representative data and context...
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 14, 2020
- 1 min
NYC best source of COVID data
he city and State are providing better data on Coronavirus than has been available from other trusted sources.
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 10, 2020
- 1 min
Riding bad data to lousy decisions
...we often lend automatic credibility to information and decisions based on data. It’s reasonable in many instances, but not always.
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 7, 2020
- 1 min
Shortcomings in our response to Corona
Does it make sense to deal with this bug through policies that will drive the world-economy to an also deadly economic recession?...
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Ozzie Paez
- Apr 24, 2019
- 3 min
Healthcare's changing landscape – Part I
It’s a foregone conclusion that healthcare will be dramatically different in ten years or less. All the pieces are in place for a broad...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jan 9, 2019
- 3 min
Artificial intelligence and stock markets
It’s impossible to miss the wild, record swings in the stock market. Scary things for investors accustomed to more sensible market...
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Ozzie Paez
- May 11, 2018
- 2 min
Alan Dershowitz - Data analyst?
Politico reported shock in the legal community over Alan Dershowitz's frequent defense of President Trump[1]. They shouldn't and wouldn't...
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