Presented at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit, Chicago 2017 #PAChicago
https://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/predictive-analytics-innovation-summit-chicago-2017/speakers
This presentation centers on currently published findings focused on the use of predictive analytics in healthcare venues of sports medicine and orthopedic rehabilitative settings. Aspects of data access via national patient registries as well as nascent applications of machine learning will also be covered. An example of one approach of incorporating a model of assessment, evidence-based practice, treatment augmentation, and resultant outcome evaluation will be provided as well.
Please be in touch
http://DrChrisStout.com
Hirshberg promise of digital technology astra_zenecaThe Promise of Digital Te...Levi Shapiro
Presentation by Boaz Hirshberg, VP, Clinical Development, Cardiovascular, Renal, Metabolic Disease at AstraZeneca
- The Promise of Digital Technology in Drug Development Clinical Trials. Includes the following:
- The vision for patient-centric medical care delivery
- End-to-end patient experience enhanced by digital technologies
- Digital technologies have a potential to transform clinical trial & medical care delivery
- Example: transforming our understanding of Type 2 diabetes with remote patient monitoring
- Frequent sampling demonstrates glucose lowering very soon after first dose, which might be unappreciated in typical trial design
- Multiple data points reduce uncertainty about the glucose outcome and enable future machine learning of unanticipated relationships
- Lessons learned from CGM pilot: data storage, transfer, and analysis
- Defining the clinical science questions to be answered
- Operational considerations for incorporating digital data into clinical development
- Addressing challenges of digital technologies’ disruption
The field of statistics is the study of learning from data. Statistical learning causes you to utilize the best possible strategies to gather the information, utilize the right investigations, and adequately present the outcomes
Evidence-based Patient Assignments: How Using Automated and Intelligent Softw...Gene Pinder
Hospitals are under increasing pressure to improve care, lower costs and avoid nurse burnout and turnover. One overlooked area is the patient assignment process, which could benefit from intelligent software. This slide presentation lays out the case for it.
Presented at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit, Chicago 2017 #PAChicago
https://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/predictive-analytics-innovation-summit-chicago-2017/speakers
This presentation centers on currently published findings focused on the use of predictive analytics in healthcare venues of sports medicine and orthopedic rehabilitative settings. Aspects of data access via national patient registries as well as nascent applications of machine learning will also be covered. An example of one approach of incorporating a model of assessment, evidence-based practice, treatment augmentation, and resultant outcome evaluation will be provided as well.
Please be in touch
http://DrChrisStout.com
Hirshberg promise of digital technology astra_zenecaThe Promise of Digital Te...Levi Shapiro
Presentation by Boaz Hirshberg, VP, Clinical Development, Cardiovascular, Renal, Metabolic Disease at AstraZeneca
- The Promise of Digital Technology in Drug Development Clinical Trials. Includes the following:
- The vision for patient-centric medical care delivery
- End-to-end patient experience enhanced by digital technologies
- Digital technologies have a potential to transform clinical trial & medical care delivery
- Example: transforming our understanding of Type 2 diabetes with remote patient monitoring
- Frequent sampling demonstrates glucose lowering very soon after first dose, which might be unappreciated in typical trial design
- Multiple data points reduce uncertainty about the glucose outcome and enable future machine learning of unanticipated relationships
- Lessons learned from CGM pilot: data storage, transfer, and analysis
- Defining the clinical science questions to be answered
- Operational considerations for incorporating digital data into clinical development
- Addressing challenges of digital technologies’ disruption
The field of statistics is the study of learning from data. Statistical learning causes you to utilize the best possible strategies to gather the information, utilize the right investigations, and adequately present the outcomes
Evidence-based Patient Assignments: How Using Automated and Intelligent Softw...Gene Pinder
Hospitals are under increasing pressure to improve care, lower costs and avoid nurse burnout and turnover. One overlooked area is the patient assignment process, which could benefit from intelligent software. This slide presentation lays out the case for it.
Kate Silvester, a healthcare systems engineer, discusses the challenges of working with data and statistical techniques for real-time monitoring of care quality.
What if you knew a bed crisis was going to happen before it happened? Could you do something to reduce its impact?
View the slides for the webinar and find out about our new Bed Management simulation tool that could save millions for your organization. Bed.P.A.C. can help prevent delays and ED boarding time, reduce length of stay, and ensure patients get the best care.
Emergency Department Throughput: Using DES as an effective tool for decision ...SIMUL8 Corporation
Emergency Department Throughput: Using DES as an effective tool for decision making
Presenters: Johns Hopkins, Novasim
The first workshop in our series will look at a challenge facing many health systems across the country. With an increase in patient demand and limited resources and capacity, the need to manage Emergency Department throughput has never been greater.
Join Eric Hamrock, Senior Project Administrator for Operations Integration at Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS), and Kerrie Paige from SIMUL8 Partner Novasim as they present some of the lessons learned through more than a decade of simulation projects at three JHHS Emergency Departments.
What will it take for patients and clinicians to use data from mobile health apps and sensors in routine care? Watch how Linq, a new product from Open mHealth, offers a new "bring your own app" approach that puts the focus back on patients and clinicians rather than on technology.
Clinician Satisfaction Before and After Transition from a Basic to a Comprehe...Allison McCoy
Healthcare organizations are transitioning from basic to comprehensive electronic health records (EHRs) to meet Meaningful Use requirements and improve patient safety. Yet, full adoption of EHRs is lagging and may be linked to clinician dissatisfaction. In depth assessment of satisfaction before, during, and after EHR transition is rarely done. Using an adapted published tool to assess adoption and satisfaction with EHRs, we surveyed clinicians at a large, non-profit academic medical center before (baseline) and 6-12 months (short-term follow-up) and 12-24 months (long-term follow-up) after transition from a basic, locally-developed to a comprehensive, commercial EHR. Satisfaction with the EHR (overall and by component) was captured at each interval. Overall satisfaction was highest at baseline (85%), lowest at short-term follow-up (66%), and increasing at long-term follow-up (79%). This trend was similar for satisfaction with EHR components designed to improve patient safety including clinical decision support, patient communication, health information exchange, and system reliability. Conversely, at baseline, short-term and long-term follow-up, perceptions of productivity, ability to provide better care with the EHR, and satisfaction with available resources, were lower at both short- and long-term follow-up compared to baseline. Persistent dissatisfaction with productivity and resources was identified. Addressing determinants of dissatisfaction may increase full adoption of EHRs. Further investigation in larger populations is warranted.
Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Rate Prediction, Large Datasets, Data Cleanups...
The Health Insurance Marketplace Public Use Files (PUF) which contain data on health and dental plans offered to individuals and small businesses through the US Health Insurance Marketplace.
4 Strategies to Influence Digital Health Approaches in Clinical Research StudiesJohn Reites
Drug Information Association (DIA) 2016 Conference presentation by John Reites on June 26, 2016. Session entitled; "Digital Health Debate" including this presentation on the four strategies to influence digital health approaches in clinical research studies.
Presentation on how past medical records can be used to provide appropriate and timely treatment for patients using Genetic Algorithm and Feature Selection
Understand what healthcare analytics is.
Identify the 5-stage Analytics Program Lifecycle (APL).
Understand how data analytics can be used in healthcare.
Check it on Experfy: https://www.experfy.com/training/courses/introduction-to-healthcare-analytics.
Clinicians Satisfaction Before and After Transition from a Basic to a Compreh...Allison McCoy
Healthcare organizations are transitioning from basic to comprehensive electronic health records (EHRs) to meet Meaningful Use requirements and improve patient safety. Yet, full adoption of EHRs is lagging and may be linked to clinician dissatisfaction. In depth assessment of satisfaction before, during, and after EHR transition is rarely done. Using an adapted published tool to assess adoption and satisfaction with EHRs, we surveyed clinicians at a large, non-profit academic medical center before (baseline) and 6-12 months (short-term follow-up) and 12-24 months (long-term follow-up) after transition from a basic, locally-developed to a comprehensive, commercial EHR. Satisfaction with the EHR (overall and by component) was captured at each interval. Overall satisfaction was highest at baseline (85%), lowest at short-term follow-up (66%), and increasing at long-term follow-up (79%). This trend was similar for satisfaction with EHR components designed to improve patient safety including clinical decision support, patient communication, health information exchange, and system reliability. Conversely, at baseline, short-term and long-term follow-up, perceptions of productivity, ability to provide better care with the EHR, and satisfaction with available resources, were lower at both short- and long-term follow-up compared to baseline. Persistent dissatisfaction with productivity and resources was identified. Addressing determinants of dissatisfaction may increase full adoption of EHRs. Further investigation in larger populations is warranted.
Kate Silvester, a healthcare systems engineer, discusses the challenges of working with data and statistical techniques for real-time monitoring of care quality.
What if you knew a bed crisis was going to happen before it happened? Could you do something to reduce its impact?
View the slides for the webinar and find out about our new Bed Management simulation tool that could save millions for your organization. Bed.P.A.C. can help prevent delays and ED boarding time, reduce length of stay, and ensure patients get the best care.
Emergency Department Throughput: Using DES as an effective tool for decision ...SIMUL8 Corporation
Emergency Department Throughput: Using DES as an effective tool for decision making
Presenters: Johns Hopkins, Novasim
The first workshop in our series will look at a challenge facing many health systems across the country. With an increase in patient demand and limited resources and capacity, the need to manage Emergency Department throughput has never been greater.
Join Eric Hamrock, Senior Project Administrator for Operations Integration at Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS), and Kerrie Paige from SIMUL8 Partner Novasim as they present some of the lessons learned through more than a decade of simulation projects at three JHHS Emergency Departments.
What will it take for patients and clinicians to use data from mobile health apps and sensors in routine care? Watch how Linq, a new product from Open mHealth, offers a new "bring your own app" approach that puts the focus back on patients and clinicians rather than on technology.
Clinician Satisfaction Before and After Transition from a Basic to a Comprehe...Allison McCoy
Healthcare organizations are transitioning from basic to comprehensive electronic health records (EHRs) to meet Meaningful Use requirements and improve patient safety. Yet, full adoption of EHRs is lagging and may be linked to clinician dissatisfaction. In depth assessment of satisfaction before, during, and after EHR transition is rarely done. Using an adapted published tool to assess adoption and satisfaction with EHRs, we surveyed clinicians at a large, non-profit academic medical center before (baseline) and 6-12 months (short-term follow-up) and 12-24 months (long-term follow-up) after transition from a basic, locally-developed to a comprehensive, commercial EHR. Satisfaction with the EHR (overall and by component) was captured at each interval. Overall satisfaction was highest at baseline (85%), lowest at short-term follow-up (66%), and increasing at long-term follow-up (79%). This trend was similar for satisfaction with EHR components designed to improve patient safety including clinical decision support, patient communication, health information exchange, and system reliability. Conversely, at baseline, short-term and long-term follow-up, perceptions of productivity, ability to provide better care with the EHR, and satisfaction with available resources, were lower at both short- and long-term follow-up compared to baseline. Persistent dissatisfaction with productivity and resources was identified. Addressing determinants of dissatisfaction may increase full adoption of EHRs. Further investigation in larger populations is warranted.
Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Rate Prediction, Large Datasets, Data Cleanups...
The Health Insurance Marketplace Public Use Files (PUF) which contain data on health and dental plans offered to individuals and small businesses through the US Health Insurance Marketplace.
4 Strategies to Influence Digital Health Approaches in Clinical Research StudiesJohn Reites
Drug Information Association (DIA) 2016 Conference presentation by John Reites on June 26, 2016. Session entitled; "Digital Health Debate" including this presentation on the four strategies to influence digital health approaches in clinical research studies.
Presentation on how past medical records can be used to provide appropriate and timely treatment for patients using Genetic Algorithm and Feature Selection
Understand what healthcare analytics is.
Identify the 5-stage Analytics Program Lifecycle (APL).
Understand how data analytics can be used in healthcare.
Check it on Experfy: https://www.experfy.com/training/courses/introduction-to-healthcare-analytics.
Clinicians Satisfaction Before and After Transition from a Basic to a Compreh...Allison McCoy
Healthcare organizations are transitioning from basic to comprehensive electronic health records (EHRs) to meet Meaningful Use requirements and improve patient safety. Yet, full adoption of EHRs is lagging and may be linked to clinician dissatisfaction. In depth assessment of satisfaction before, during, and after EHR transition is rarely done. Using an adapted published tool to assess adoption and satisfaction with EHRs, we surveyed clinicians at a large, non-profit academic medical center before (baseline) and 6-12 months (short-term follow-up) and 12-24 months (long-term follow-up) after transition from a basic, locally-developed to a comprehensive, commercial EHR. Satisfaction with the EHR (overall and by component) was captured at each interval. Overall satisfaction was highest at baseline (85%), lowest at short-term follow-up (66%), and increasing at long-term follow-up (79%). This trend was similar for satisfaction with EHR components designed to improve patient safety including clinical decision support, patient communication, health information exchange, and system reliability. Conversely, at baseline, short-term and long-term follow-up, perceptions of productivity, ability to provide better care with the EHR, and satisfaction with available resources, were lower at both short- and long-term follow-up compared to baseline. Persistent dissatisfaction with productivity and resources was identified. Addressing determinants of dissatisfaction may increase full adoption of EHRs. Further investigation in larger populations is warranted.
The emerging healthcare environment requires expanded patient access while delivering optimal outcomes and cost. As healthcare moves form a fee for service model to alternative delivery and payment models, there are opportunities for physical therapy to revolutionize the delivery of musculoskeletal medicine. Physical therapists are uniquely qualified to spearhead musculoskeletal care through direct access with the potential to improve patient satisfaction and outcomes while limiting unneeded medical care. While this model has been described in the military, there are few descriptions of this PT First approach in the private payer arena. This session will provide the attendee with a multifaceted perspective on the impact of physical therapy in emerging, collaborative healthcare models. Approaches to payers and employers with the business implications will be presented that influence these new models. Key strategies to implement a scalable, best practice model will be discussed including the logistical challenges and corollary solutions in the private arena. We will discus our experience implementing novel delivery models for management of neck, back, shoulder and knee pain. The session will deliver practical solutions to the challenges of implementing, assessing, and adapting a theoretical construct to a working viable program. Finally, the session will discuss how the use of a a large Patient Outcomes Registry and analysis of “big data” can drive best practice and inform development of the program.
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Why should I receive this Scholarship?
There are so many things I can say about myself, but one for certain is my unquenchable thirst for learning. However, I have experienced some traumatic times in my life as a young child age 5-year-old and an impending teenager age 12-year-old I lose first my mom and then my dad and the hardest thing anyone can go through is losing both parents.
I felt like my worst had out weighted my good, I remember that God is so and that he would never put more on me then I could bare. This quote reminds me so much of how I felt at only 12 years old. “The Journey of ‘’A Thousand Miles begins with one Step” Why I say it reminds me of me, is because this journey of even getting to the 12-grade seemed like a journey I would not have made it without my mom and dad. But I took that one step and I did not stop.
I am now my class Salutatorian. I did it all on my own with the help of God. Because it was many nights of homework, my grandmother could not help I just had to figure it out on my own. I am a very perspicacious young lady who drives for more learning is pushed into overdrive. I feel like this scholarship is for me because of my ability to not trip over stumbling blocks in life but to step over them!
I also feel like this scholarship will help me further my education and help me obtain my degree in culinary arts. When I earn this degree, I will like to take things a little bit further and become and entrepreneur and own my own chain of restaurants.
Running head: COMPETITIVENESS AND PERFORMANCES EFFECTIVENESS FOR HEALTH CARE IT SYSTEMS
COMPETITIVENESS AND PERFORMANCE EFFECTIVENESS FOR HEALTH CARE IT SYSTEMS 2
Competitiveness and Performances Effectiveness for Health Care IT System
Joanna Nasser
Dr. Louisa-O, Ukochovwera MHSA,MBA
HSA315
02/22/2018
1. Define the fundamental responsibilities and key characteristics of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) within health care organizations. Make one (1) recommendation where they can utilize their expertise to assist with employee and patient satisfaction. Support your response with related examples of such expertise in use
The responsibilities of Chief Information Officer and The Chief Technology Officer in healthy organization have with no doubts become very strategic and very critical towards the success of a health care organization. This position is responsible for managing the technology of an organization and health care organizations are no exceptions. Director of technology or technical services are the names that were used to refer to those who were responsible of technology before it was transformed to Chief Technology Officer although the names are still used to date in small organizations. The responsibility of the director of technology was to manage the hardware and live in the data Centre. Managing infrastructure was also their responsibility as well as technology management. A visible le.
We welcomed Dr. Andrew Feifer for a presentation about Ned, an app designed specifically for prostate cancer patients, as well as a discussion about the incorporation of data driven smart technology in the survivorship of cancer patients.
The webinar was followed by an interactive question & answer session.
Ned was conceptualized and co-founded by our webinar presenter: Dr. Andrew Feifer, a Urologic Surgical Oncologist at Trillium Health Centre in Toronto. Dr. Feifer evisioned a tool that would empower prostate cancer survivors by putting their health into their own hands and giving them more options to manage their own care.
8 Management tools that improve Patient safetyImperago Ltd
In a post-Francis world, everybody is searching for the silver bullet to improve quality within the NHS.
The 1,782 page report by Robert Francis QC doesn't provide one bullet, but 290 recommendations.
But are we in danger of not seeing the wood from the trees?
There are some very basic - yet key - principles that still seem illusive for many trusts
Disrupting Conventional Therapies with Digital TherapiesMedullan
Join this webinar to learn about:
Bio 2.0 - what it is, what problems it aims to address, why it's important now, and what leading indicators of its potential have we seen in the market.
The new clinical development patterns that will emerge to help Life Science companies bring digital therapies and solutions to market in a predictable and sustainable way.
The potential roadblocks, the regulatory ambiguity, and its potential for clarity as these patterns take hold.
Many will still find it hard to decide what initiatives to scale up and how to determine which pathways to follow, as it’s unclear what digital success will look like five years from now. This series aims to bring innovators and industry leaders together to imagine what success could be and discuss ways to get there.
Engage Front-line Care Team Using Clinical Audit Checklists iCareQuality.us
The culture of patient safety, quality, and transparency is central to improving care delivery at the organization and industry level. Implementing a sustainable frontline solution like quality checklists will require new leadership, innovative thinking, applications of human factor engineering, and patient voices who demand better. We need to reward staff engagement and quality patient safety efforts which can translate into better patient outcomes. CCG, PSO developed a Clinical Audit Checklist program that can support a culture of transparency and accountability, thereby reducing healthcare costs and delivering positive patient outcomes. Together, we can make continuous daily improvement a standard practice at the hospital and system level. Patients are counting on us to make care delivery safer today for a better patient experience tomorrow.
An in-depth look into the life of a medical assistant. We explore the opportunity and growth potential for the health care industry and specifically for the career as a medical assistant.
Means and Methods of Humanitarian InterventionDr. Chris Stout
It has long been the ethos, if not the ethic, of psychology to work via its various iterations and specialties to the betterment of individuals, groups and areas. Professional service is an important aspect of a psychologist’s identity. It is one of the “big three” (teaching, research, service) that are integral to the activities of colleagues, and is emphasized as a core value in founding documents such as the American Psychological Association’s mission (“to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people’s lives”), vision (e.g., “…a global partner… to facilitate the resolution of personal, societal and global challenges in diverse, multicultural and international contexts”), and ethical standards (e.g., for “Justice,” “Respect for People’s Rights and Dignities,” and “giving psychology away/pro bono”).
This presentation will demonstrate how to translate service into concrete international action. Beginning with examples of specific international service needs and opportunities, at home and abroad, the presentation will highlight people, programs, and places where the vibrant potential for global service is very real and present. For current and future psychologists as well as colleagues in different areas interested in “making a difference in the world,” this talk offers a very pragmatic how-to in developing skills, identifying partners, and managing the logistics and practicalities of international service within a psychology career.
Methods of Humanitarian Intervention - APA 2019Dr. Chris Stout
Narrative version with reference links is available on LinkedIn at: “State of Philanthropy: Finding Hope Among the 'Disaster' of Humanitarian Aid” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-philanthropy-finding-hope-among-disaster-aid-dr-chris-stout/
Science, Technology and Ethics: Hacking Darwin with Jamie Metzl, PhDDr. Chris Stout
Could this be the most important book of our generation?
Jamie Metzl, PhD, JD, and polymath extraordinaire, writes “From this point onward, our species will take active control of our evolutionary process by genetically altering our future offspring into something different from what we are today. We are, in other words, beginning a process of hacking Darwin.” This is a quote from his latest book, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity.
Technologies, Organizations and Tools for Global Psychologists in Humanitaria...Dr. Chris Stout
Dr. Chris Stout will provide tools and discuss models that psychologists and other disciplines have used in global humanitarian work. The use of psychological principles in policy development and sustainability along with interventionism will also be discussed. He will share real-world stories from innovative non-profits that will open new perspectives, ideas and approaches for attendees to learn from and adapt to their interests and work.
Dr. Chris Stout is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives, a Top Ranked Healthcare Nonprofit. He is a former faculty member at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine and is currently an Advisory Board Member at the Center for Global Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Medicine. He served as a NGO Special Representative to the United Nations via Division 9 of the APA, was a Federal Advocacy Coordinator for APA for 12 years, was co-chair of CIRP, is past-President of the Illinois Psychological Association, Fellow in three Divisions of APA and is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. He was a World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow and invited faculty at their Annual Meeting in Davos. He published the award–winning three volume set, The New Humanitarians, in addition to over 35 other books, having been translated into 8 languages. He has been interviewed on CNBC, Oprah, and by the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and others. He’s received numerous humanitarian awards, including APA’s International Humanitarian Award and four honorary doctorates.
Technologies, Organizations and Tools for Global Psychologists in Humanitaria...Dr. Chris Stout
You’re Invited:
I am proud to announce that I have been invited by APA’s Division 52 – International Psychology to do a Continuing Education Webinar entitled: “Technologies, Organizations and Tools for Global Psychologists in Humanitarian Intervention,” moderated by Falu Rami, Ph.D. and hosted by Karen Brown, Ph.D. on May 21, 2019, 12:00 PM EDT, 11:00 PM CDT, 9:00 AM PDT.
I hope you can join! - Chris
Invited Midwestern Psychological Association Presentation - 2019Dr. Chris Stout
The mission of the Center for Global Initiatives is to help in the creation of self-sustaining programs that improve access to healthcare in underserved communities throughout the world.
Learn more at: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/ and http://www.drchrisstout.com/
I hope you find this issue to be informative and helpful in your work. Please send me any information you’d like posted in upcoming issues.
The embedded links may not work in SlideShare, so please feel free to email me for a copy at DrChrisStout@gmail.com to be added to our email list.
You can join our Facebook Group and interact with over 5200 likeminded individuals at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CenterForGlobalInitiatives/
Any recommendations to improve this communique would be most appreciated!
And if you’d like to support the Center’s work with a tax deductible donation, that would be fantastic(!) and do a great deal: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/donateNow.cfm
Cheers, and thank you for your work,
Chris
Founding Director, http://CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org
Becoming a New Humanitarian: Examples and Tools Dr. Chris Stout
The mission of the Center for Global Initiatives is to help in the creation of self-sustaining programs that improve access to healthcare in underserved communities throughout the world.
Learn more at: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/ and http://www.drchrisstout.com/
I hope you find this issue to be informative and helpful in your work. Please send me any information you’d like posted in upcoming issues.
The embedded links may not work in SlideShare, so please feel free to email me for a copy at DrChrisStout@gmail.com to be added to our email list.
You can join our Facebook Group and interact with over 5200 likeminded individuals at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CenterForGlobalInitiatives/
Any recommendations to improve this communique would be most appreciated!
And if you’d like to support the Center’s work with a tax deductible donation, that would be fantastic(!) and do a great deal: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/donateNow.cfm
Cheers, and thank you for your work,
Chris
Founding Director, http://CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org
Setting Goals by Sarah Buerger & Dr Chris StoutDr. Chris Stout
There are lots of planners, systems, seminars, and books to help achieve goals, get organized, and plan. But Meaningful Productivity is the first comprehensive approach for one’s LIFE – not just work or home. It is based on an integrative philosophy of living that has evolved and been acid-tested in the real world by its originator. It is designed to be specifically tailored to your needs, goals, and ambitions.
Meaningful Productivity is designed to be simple and unencumbered. It is basically a hybrid of a scheduling system/planner with a to-do list. Its simplicity is its power. It is my goal to get Meaningful Productivity out to the masses, via amazon so it is as affordable as it is easy to use. I am not too concerned with my copyright, other than you recognize my authorship and perhaps may wish to use my consultative services or purchase other materials, via DrChrisStout.com.
My focus is on life significance. This significance is defined via achievement with satisfaction. Significance wins out over success. Meaning and individualized importance are drivers. Sure, sometimes these result in outward reward of status, celebrity, or wealth, but these are side-effects, not ends. This philosophy is best stated in one of my mottos: “Do important things.”
I feel the accomplished life is ongoing, not an endpoint. Accomplishment should occur across the life span. Life thus needs a design. Certainly randomness has its place, and entropy can make for an enjoyable calamity, but a life left to be “designed” by chance is too much at risk of being wasted.
Some choose to simplify their lives. And this has become quite popular as of late. I support this philosophy with clarification: to simplify is to be unencumbered from the unnecessary, not to sacrifice needs and self-defined reasonable wants.
It is my philosophy to support high-achievement over over-achievement. Over-achievers tend to be more driven by obtaining external trappings resultant from achievement rather than inherent drive by the work itself. These are the individuals who risk burn out they are those who feel heavy work involvement is expected by a superior (not the result of an “internal” motivation); or feel a need to perform for others; or feel pride in external/material attainment over intrinsic satisfaction in the work itself; and then they reach a point in mid- to late-career that results in the “is this all there is?” phenomenon.
I hope you find this issue to be informative and helpful in your work. Please send me any information you’d like posted in upcoming issues.
The embedded links may not work in SlideShare, so please feel free to email me for a copy at DrChrisStout@gmail.com to be added to our email list.
You can join our Facebook Group and interact with over 5200 likeminded individuals at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CenterForGlobalInitiatives/
Any recommendations to improve this communique would be most appreciated!
And if you’d like to support the Center’s work with a tax deductible donation, that would be fantastic(!) and do a great deal: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/donateNow.cfm
Cheers, and thank you for your work,
Chris
Founding Director, http://CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org
Books inspire and create. They can provide pleasure or provocation—either can make you better. Every few months (or so, I’m a slow reader) you can see what I’m recommending for you in order to live A Life in Full.
To learn more and subscribe to our Quarterly eMagazine, please visit http://ALifeInFull.org
Cheers, and always happy to help…
Chris
http://ALifeInFulll.org
Global Health Film Club
The Film Club provides unique venue to view a film as a group and then follow with conversation and methods to address the issues. The film serves as vehicle to learn about a specific humanitarian issue.
Some of you may be familiar with the concept behind “The 100 Ton Club.” It’s basically lifting 100 tons, yes, 200,000 pounds, in a day’s time.
If you know some of my background, you may know that I like to take on various (odd) physical challenges—running marathons and ultras, racing cycling criteriums, summer biathlons, cross-country ski races, Warrior Dashes and other obstacle races, diving the Blue Hole, the Great Barrier Reef, and with sharks, climbing 3 of the World’s Seven Summits, etc. You may not know that I grew up poor, obese (particularly a bummer when you consider my last name), had orthopedic issues, etcetera—woe was me.
You also likely know that I run a non-profit Center for Global Initiatives and often pair some physical challenge as a fundraiser for our work in Tanzania.
So, by my 58th birthday (8 May) I hope to join-the-Club and lift 100 tons, but as somewhat of making this an endurance challenge as well, I hope to do it in 3 hours.
Gulp…
If you’d like to support this crazy challenge for our friends in Tanzania, please do: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/donateNow.cfm
Or, if you’re so inclined, you may want to take on your own challenge (maybe this one too?) and support the Center’s work.
Thanks for any help you can lend…!
Chris
I hope you find this issue to be informative and helpful in your work. Please send me any information you’d like posted in upcoming issues.
The embedded links may not work in SlideShare, so please feel free to email me for a copy at DrChrisStout@gmail.com to be added to our email list.
You can join our Facebook Group and interact with over 3900 likeminded individuals at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CenterForGlobalInitiatives/
Any recommendations to improve this communique would be most appreciated!
And if you’d like to support the Center’s work with a tax deductible donation, that would be fantastic(!) and do a great deal: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/donateNow.cfm
Cheers, and thank you for your work,
Chris
Founding Director, http://CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org
Books inspire and create. They can provide pleasure or provocation—either can make you better. Every two months (or so, I’m a slow reader) you can see what I’m recommending for you in order to live A Life in Full.
To learn more and subscribe to our Quarterly eMagazine, please visit http://ALifeInFull.org
Cheers, and always happy to help…
Chris
http://ALifeInFulll.org
Creative Approaches to Humanitarian Intervention: Tools and Techniques From ...Dr. Chris Stout
This presentation will provide a number of real-world examples of various incredible programs and their founders who served as the basis for the presenter’s bookset “The New Humanitarians.” Examples and statistical data will then give way to a number of stories about various humanitarian organizations that are as innovative in their approach as they are successful in their outcomes. Inspirational stories as well as practical tools will round out this rich and engaging presentation.
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Round table discussion of vector databases, unstructured data, ai, big data, real-time, robots and Milvus.
A lively discussion with NJ Gen AI Meetup Lead, Prasad and Procure.FYI's Co-Found
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Quantitative Data AnalysisReliability Analysis (Cronbach Alpha) Common Method...2023240532
Quantitative data Analysis
Overview
Reliability Analysis (Cronbach Alpha)
Common Method Bias (Harman Single Factor Test)
Frequency Analysis (Demographic)
Descriptive Analysis
The Building Blocks of QuestDB, a Time Series Databasejavier ramirez
Talk Delivered at Valencia Codes Meetup 2024-06.
Traditionally, databases have treated timestamps just as another data type. However, when performing real-time analytics, timestamps should be first class citizens and we need rich time semantics to get the most out of our data. We also need to deal with ever growing datasets while keeping performant, which is as fun as it sounds.
It is no wonder time-series databases are now more popular than ever before. Join me in this session to learn about the internal architecture and building blocks of QuestDB, an open source time-series database designed for speed. We will also review a history of some of the changes we have gone over the past two years to deal with late and unordered data, non-blocking writes, read-replicas, or faster batch ingestion.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
1. Using Big Data
and Predictive
Analytics in Healthcare
Chris Stout, PhD
Vice President
Clinical of Research and Data Analytics - ATI
and
The College of Medicine, University of Illinois at
Chicago
2. Who is in the audience today…?
PT students…?
PT faculty…?
Biomedical Sciences students….?
Biomedical Sciences faculty…?
Anyone else….?
Folks that just like to raise their hands…?
6. There’s an app for that… and how!
Roughly 200 new apps added
every day.
Those apps are increasingly being
used in clinical trials.
Right now, there are 860 trials
underway across the globe testing
health apps for clinical use.
If the evidence supporting some of
those apps pans out — e.g., if
they’re able to reduce ER visits or
improve medication adherence —
they could help cut health care
costs in the future.
10. Apple HealthKit
In 14 of 23 major hospitals are trialing
Google, Phillips, Samsung, IBM, and
others are getting deeper into health-
based technology applications
Healthcare + fitness apps =
comprehensive picture
Send to MD or case manager
16. >15,000 prior-managed bills were loaded and rerun
against the ODG Treatment UR Advisor for each ICD9-
CPT combination on frequency, number of visits,
recommendations from ODG Treatment, and the "Bill
Review Payment (or ODG Approval) Flags" divided
into Green, Yellow, Red…
17. Green, OK to auto-pay up to ODG Codes for
Automated Approval max number of visits;
Yellow, OK to auto-pay up to 25th %tile
number of visits
Red, need to review
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20. It’s nice to work with workers’ comp
outcomes because…
Outcomes are VERY Quantified
– RTW at the same job description and PDL
or not?
– How many days passed before RTW?
– Nice, clean, and tidy!
21. Surgeon’s Perspective on a
Good Outcome
• No anesthesia issues
• No surprises during or after
• No complications
• Good wound healing
• No post-op infection
22. But how does the story end?
Is the patient back at work?
Quickly?
At the same PDL as prior to injury?
With the same job classification?
37. Collaborative Opportunities
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Example Projects
Analyzing individual patient demographic,
baseline and outcomes characteristics to
predict risk for developing chronic
musculoskeletal pain
Analyzing clinic and clinician, patient
demographics, baseline and outcomes
characteristics to predict likelihoods for
appointment cancellation
38. Registry in Differentiation and Exposure
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ATI possesses > 2 million unique cases of clinical outcomes
Solid profile describing clinical-operational results
Building towards differentiation
Creating National Benchmarks for comparison purposes
Developing models to predict and profile best care behaviors
Using data to target improvements to differentiation
Partnering with world class research institutes to innovate, improve patient
management and clinical outcomes
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40. We are in the midst of some
wonderfully revolutionalry and
promising changes afoot…
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44. Please be in touch
Chris.Stout@ATIPT.com
or visit DrChrisStout.com
for these slides