Deep Learning: Hospital Readmissions

Deep Learning: Hospital Readmissions

Readmissions are a thorny and expensive problem for hospitals, which is why there is a growing emphasis on identifying patients most likely to be readmitted before they are discharged. Does deep learning have a role to play in helping to i.d. patients most at risk for readmissions? Let’s look at the numbers…

Earthling Chat: Black Mirror

Earthling Chat: Black Mirror

The British drama series “Black Mirror” is a quasi-scifi exploration of the morally ambiguous ways our relationship to (slash dependence on) technology can be exploited. In this Earthling chat we use the show to open a conversation about the responsibility (if any) developers, as engineers of tomorrow’s technology, have to mitigate the deleterious impacts of their “creations.”