Elliott Fisher | Monitoring Variation in Health CareSax Institute
Professor Elliott Fisher, Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice spoke at the 5th HARC Forum in November 2009.
The purpose of this forum was to consider how we can create and use new evidence about health system performance in order to inform policy and practice.
Professor Fisher gave an overview of the internationally leading Dartmouth Atlas Project. This project has documented glaring variations in US healthcare delivery and has radically changed the way we think about effectiveness and efficiency of health care.
HARC stands for the Hospital Alliance for Research Collaboration. HARC is a collaborative network of researchers, health managers, clinicians and policy makers based in NSW, Australia managed by the Sax Institute.
HARC Forums bring members of the HARC network together to discuss the latest research and analysis about important issues facing our hospitals.
For more information visit saxinstitute.org.au.
Elliott Fisher | Monitoring Variation in Health CareSax Institute
Professor Elliott Fisher, Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice spoke at the 5th HARC Forum in November 2009.
The purpose of this forum was to consider how we can create and use new evidence about health system performance in order to inform policy and practice.
Professor Fisher gave an overview of the internationally leading Dartmouth Atlas Project. This project has documented glaring variations in US healthcare delivery and has radically changed the way we think about effectiveness and efficiency of health care.
HARC stands for the Hospital Alliance for Research Collaboration. HARC is a collaborative network of researchers, health managers, clinicians and policy makers based in NSW, Australia managed by the Sax Institute.
HARC Forums bring members of the HARC network together to discuss the latest research and analysis about important issues facing our hospitals.
For more information visit saxinstitute.org.au.
SEB's first take on the Japanese earthquakeSEBgroup
SEB’s experts believe effects on financial markets and the economy will be short lived while nuclear problems pose a big risk.
The economists have assembled a chart package on possible economic effects from the Japanese earth quake. Among others they have included charts on growth and financial markets after Kobe quake, hurricane Katrina 2005 and the 9-11 terror attacks 2001. There are also some charts on the Japanese energy sector, implications for oil prices and Japanese holdings of US bonds.
Their main scenario remains that the impact on growth will be limited and that central banks will hike according to plans. They also discuss a risk scenario for growth and central banks if the nuclear damage should deteriorate.
Earthquake is a violent tremor in the earth’s crust, sending out a series of shock waves in all directions from its place of origin or epicenter.
On the morning of January 26, 2001, the Nation’s 52nd Republic Day, a devastating earthquake occurred in the Kutch district of the state of Gujarat.
This presentation contains the brief introduction to earthquake,its effect,causes etc..
And case study of kuchha(bhuj),Gujarat Earthquake on 26th january,2001
Direct Relief USA provides targeted assistance to help community clinics and health centers prepare for and respond to emergencies. Safety net clinics deliver essential healthcare services when disaster strikes. Direct Relief works with them to get them the resources they need, and also pre-positions medical supplies at clinics so they can be immediately available when an emergency occurs.
Response efforts—which include distribution of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and cash—are swift, involve local partners, and are coordinated with other nonprofit organizations and public health authorities to ensure the most effective use of resources. Because of the existing partnerships with safety net agencies and healthcare manufacturers, as well having experience in pharmaceutical distribution, Direct Relief has the unique ability to offer targeted, appropriate, and timely emergency response.
Learn more at http://directrelief.org
SEB's first take on the Japanese earthquakeSEBgroup
SEB’s experts believe effects on financial markets and the economy will be short lived while nuclear problems pose a big risk.
The economists have assembled a chart package on possible economic effects from the Japanese earth quake. Among others they have included charts on growth and financial markets after Kobe quake, hurricane Katrina 2005 and the 9-11 terror attacks 2001. There are also some charts on the Japanese energy sector, implications for oil prices and Japanese holdings of US bonds.
Their main scenario remains that the impact on growth will be limited and that central banks will hike according to plans. They also discuss a risk scenario for growth and central banks if the nuclear damage should deteriorate.
Earthquake is a violent tremor in the earth’s crust, sending out a series of shock waves in all directions from its place of origin or epicenter.
On the morning of January 26, 2001, the Nation’s 52nd Republic Day, a devastating earthquake occurred in the Kutch district of the state of Gujarat.
This presentation contains the brief introduction to earthquake,its effect,causes etc..
And case study of kuchha(bhuj),Gujarat Earthquake on 26th january,2001
Direct Relief USA provides targeted assistance to help community clinics and health centers prepare for and respond to emergencies. Safety net clinics deliver essential healthcare services when disaster strikes. Direct Relief works with them to get them the resources they need, and also pre-positions medical supplies at clinics so they can be immediately available when an emergency occurs.
Response efforts—which include distribution of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and cash—are swift, involve local partners, and are coordinated with other nonprofit organizations and public health authorities to ensure the most effective use of resources. Because of the existing partnerships with safety net agencies and healthcare manufacturers, as well having experience in pharmaceutical distribution, Direct Relief has the unique ability to offer targeted, appropriate, and timely emergency response.
Learn more at http://directrelief.org
Direct Relief’s annual report on Fiscal Year 2014: During this period—July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014—Direct Relief responded to more requests for assistance, fulfilled its humanitarian mission more expansively, and provided more assistance to more people in need than ever before in the organization’s 66-year history.
Nonprofit community health centers and clinics that provide preventive and primary healthcare services for 24 million people – or one in 13 persons in the U.S. – report that the first year of the Affordable Care Act’s implementation had uneven effects, particularly between facilities in Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states.
The findings were released today by Direct Relief in The State of the Safety Net 2014, an annual report that examines issues and trends within the extensive network of nonprofit, community-based health centers and clinics, which are the principal point of access to healthcare and the medical home for persons with low incomes, without health insurance, and among the country’s most vulnerable. Such facilities include Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), nonprofit community-based health clinics, and free and charitable clinics.
Key Findings – 2012 State of the Safety NetDirect Relief
A quick glance at the most striking facts and information found within the 2012 State of the Safety Net report.
For more information visit http://www.directrelief.org/usa/state-of-the-safety-net/
Child and Maternal Health in Kenya 2011 ReportDirect Relief
This report evaluates access to maternal and child healthcare and health outcomes in Kenya using geographic information systems (GIS), statistical analysis, and a comprehensive review of existing literature.
It seeks to aid in identifying distributions of health facilities and services relative to key maternal and child health indicators (e.g., safe delivery, care and treatment of birth injuries, antenatal and postnatal care, immunization, and nutrition).
It also seeks to contribute a portfolio of geospatial maps for identifying, analyzing, and monitoring health needs in one of the world’s poorest, most densely populated, and most vulnerable regions. In addition to identifying and analyzing information currently available, the report highlights limitations of both Kenya’s existing data sets and overreliance on distance as a measure of “access” and “use.”
This report responds to a request from Direct Relief International (DRI) to identify healthcare access and health outcomes in Kenya as part of its multi-organizational collaborative project to enhance health services in an integrated and efficient manner.
Along with the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF), Marie Stopes International (MSI), and district-level health ministries in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, DRI is attempting to determine critical gaps in health infrastructure.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !
Pakistan earthquake one year later
1. SPECIAL REPORT
PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE One Year Update
In October 2005, a massive 7.6 earthquake shook DIRECT RELIEF
BY THE NUMBERS
northern Pakistan, devastating extensive areas (Through October 31, 2006)
of Pakistani-Administered Kashmir and the North- $0 amount of Pakistan/Kashmir
earthquake contributions spent
West Frontier Province. The earthquake left three on administration or fundraising.
million people homeless and 200,000 people Direct Relief maintains a strict
policy of using 100 percent of
injured, forcing them to face the Himalayan winter all earthquake contributions
exclusively for direct earthquake
in temporary shelters and tents. expenditures. The organization is
absorbing all administrative costs
associated with the earthquake
response.
1.5 million courses
of treatment of specifically
requested medicines, supplies,
and medical equipment provided
through 29 shipments to Pakistan
$1.1 million cash grants
made to 12 clinics, hospitals,
associations, and organizations
$1.5 million cash received
to aid earthquake victims
$7.5 million (wholesale
value) medical resources
furnished specifically requested
by end user health professionals
$8.7 million direct aid
provided in the form of donated
Direct Relief’s emergency response to the Pakistan quake medical products and cash grants
involved extensive provision of air-freighted medicines, surgical
instruments, trauma-care supplies, and medical consumables. 90.1 percentage of earthquake
Designated financial contributions from individuals and funds expended to date
companies allowed Direct Relief to infuse financial support for
20 Basic Health Units (BHU) that replaced demolished clinics
in villages throughout the earthquake zone. The BHUs are vital
for women and children. In addition, Direct Relief’s ongoing
activities provide financial and material support to 12 hospitals,
four mobile medical teams, and three maternal and child health
facilities throughout the affected regions.
2. E A RT H Q UA K E C A SH EXPENDITURES BY PURPOSE
$1,163,816 expended through October 31, 2006
32%
Health Services & Medical Equipment: $613,274
Mobile Medical Teams: $70,000
9% Psycho-social Services & Training: $110,927
53% Rehabilitation & Orthopedics: $369,615
6%
A detailed summary of each grant is available on our website describing where, why, how much, for what purpose,
and results of money spent.
Nearly 60 years of disaster response experience has taught Direct Relief that traumatic
injuries caused by earthquakes require extensive long-term care and rehabilitation.
Unfortunately, these health issues typically arise after emergency funds are gone. In
recognition of this, Direct Relief has focused its available financial support for the
Pakistan earthquake on organizations, facilities, and programs involved in rehabilitative
medicine – ranging from prosthetics to physical and occupational therapy. Direct Relief’s
cash investments with earthquake contributions have:
• Financed an entire prosthetic center for Direct Relief is assisting six of their BHUs,
two years covering everything from salaries which will multiply the diagnostic and
to the materials used to create new treatment capacity of the NRSP medical
prosthetic limbs for injured patients. The personnel and alleviate the need for
Pakistan Institute of Prosthetic and Orthotic patients in outlying areas of Muzafarabad,
Sciences (PIPOS) is the eminent amputee Bagh, and Poonch to travel long distances
hospital in the country and provides new for medical care. ($79,286)
artificial limbs for patients at its five clinic
• Provided the transport of a 3 1/2 ton
sites. In the aftermath of the earthquake,
shipment of medicines and equipment
PIPOS has been the only prosthetic and
needed in both inpatient and outpatient
orthotic organization to keep its centers’
clinics in the disaster area to Pakistani-
doors open. ($203,615)
based Marafie Foundation. The Foundation
• Equipped six facilities with laboratories, has worked in northern Pakistan since
X-ray machines, a prefabricated shelter, 1986 providing health care and primary
and an array of basic medicines for the education access to the population. The
largest non-profit rural support program in $1.3 million wholesale provision of aid
Pakistan. The National Rural Support included antibiotics and surgical supplies
Program (NRSP), established in 1991, is to help those persons injured in the quake
emerging as Pakistan’s leading engine where medical facilities had been
for poverty reduction and rural development completely destroyed.
due to its sustained incremental growth.
h e a l t hy people. better world. since 194 8 .
Direct Relief International 27 S. La Patera Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93117 T: (805) 964.4767 F: (805) 681.4838 www.DirectRelief.org
