Bloomberg—How big is the coronavirus outbreak? A lot bigger than we were initially told, it turns out. On Thursday, confirmed cases of Covid-19 in China’s Hubei Province—the epidemic’s epicenter—jumped by almost 15,000. It’s not that there was a sudden wave of new infections. Rather, the increase reflects a change in how China counts patients; it… Read More »
The vast majority of U.S. hospitals and health systems — 86%, all told — are concerned about their supply of face masks and other personal protective equipment as the global spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus strains the supply chain. According to purchasing data in Premier’s survey, hospitals and health systems across the country typically buy… Read More »
As a recruiter, Emily Yeager greets a lot of people every day. But there’s one handshake she’ll never forget. It was early 2010, during the height of the swine flu outbreak — the colloquial term for what was then a novel variant of the H1N1 influenza virus — and Yeager had a meeting with a… Read More »
Bloomberg—IBM called for rules aimed at eliminating bias in artificial intelligence to ease concerns that the technology relies on data that bakes in past discriminatory practices and could harm women, minorities, the disabled, older Americans and others. As it seeks to define a growing debate in the U.S. and Europe over how to regulate the… Read More »