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The COVID crisis tested healthcare’s robustness (the capacity to take a punch) and agility (the ability to adapt). Many hospitals...

I authored this story several years ago based on 20+ years evaluating innovative health technologies, with input from health tech leaders...

It’s only natural, in the shadows of COVID-19, for Epidemiology to become synonymous with the study and modeling of infectious diseases....

I’ve spent much of my career helping clients define their needs, expectations, and #requirements in the face of continuous technological...

Healthcare, Public Health, and Emergency Services endured unprecedented challenges coping with #covid19. The pandemic’s impacts on the...

Previous posts in this series dealt with lessons learned after a mass casualty event – 9/11. This one focuses on mounting disasters that...

My previous post discussed community feedback received after 9/11 on federal plans for improving preparedness. We learned from healthcare...

Covid’s broadly impacted healthcare systems and their stakeholders. Hospitals were the most critical and hardest hit components on the...

I spent the last month exploring lessons learned during the COVID pandemic. Many were not new. For example, staff safety and the limited...

This post focuses on sensing technologies indispensable to many #AI applications in fields like agriculture, medicine, and #epidemiology....

My previous post illustrated modeling through the SIR epidemiological model. This one describes how models are updated based on how well...

My last post discussed how #AI, #modeling, and #analytics complement each other and synergistically drive performance and...

Artificial intelligence is most effective when complemented with other technologies, particularly modeling and analytics. These are...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere and so are countless misunderstandings, beginning with what it is and is not. AI broadly describes...

Western education is built on a narrower-deeper paradigm. As students enter Bachelors, Masters, and PhD programs, of necessity, they...

2020 was a banner year for those who study and apply decision-making in disrupted and uncertain environments. Decision-making under...

I've been investigating and researching the potential of emerging technologies to improve fitness, health, and patient empowerment for...

In his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman describes two systems that drive our thinking and decision-making....

Many believe that artificial intelligence and smart technologies will eliminate their damaging influences, but experience and research sugge

THIS POST was first published in April 2012. It follows my previous post on heuristics and decision-making. It has been updated to...