Many countries face the reality of demographic aging: Fertility is plummeting and people are living longer. This raises critical challenges for the labor market, healthcare, and long-term care markets, as well as retirement systems and financial planning.
Readers of my blog might be aware that I appreciate the nuances of cybernetic constructivism. Cybernetic constructivism rejects the idea that we have access to an objective reality. It doesn’t deny that there’s an external reality independent of an observer.
In statistics class we learn that we can reduce the uncertainty in our estimates by using more and more data.
Health systems across the country are unknowingly paying multiple times for the same medical equipment—once to own it, and again to rent it. The issue isn’t always an increase in clinical demand; it’s often availability and visibility to medical device inventory.
As artificial intelligence takes off, how do we efficiently integrate it into our lives and our work?
Spreadsheets are usually the first tool used to manage suppliers, and the first to become a liability. Important updates get buried. Repeat supplier problems start popping up.
Members of the UMass Amherst and MIT research team pose next to the 3D-printed patch. Haden Quinlan (front, kneeling) of the Center for Advanced Production Technologies at MIT, is one of the researchers leading MIT’s efforts on the project.
More than half of the nation’s 623,218 bridges are showing significant deterioration.
The corrective and preventive action (CAPA) process is one of the most important elements within a medtech company’s quality management system (QMS).
Ever had that moment when a project seemed crystal clear during a meeting, only to find out weeks later that everyone had completely different interpretations?
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