If you work in healthcare, chances are you are familiar with the U.S. Institute of Medicine’s landmark report, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System.” The report has inspired the name of a ...

Just over a week ago, I attended an AI-focused entertainment industry event hosted by the nonprofit AI LA. It was the first formal event of its nature I’d gone to, so I had no idea what to expect when ...

A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine estimates that hospital-acquired infections cost $9.8 billion every year. These costs impact public payers, including Medicare and Medicaid (read: ...

Patient safety in the U.S. health care system is the subject of a new documentary to be shown at Rochester Institute of Technology on April 5. A special viewing of To Err is Human: A Patient Safety ...

I was delighted to see a couple recent F1000 evaluations that strayed from traditional peer-reviewed literature. F1000 Members Frank Harrell, a biostatistician at Vanderbilt Medical School, and Daniel ...

Employees can cause a lot of trouble for their employers if they mislead customers or give them inaccurate information. The same is true for a company's bots, as several recent cases show. In Utah, ...

Elon Musk said he would rehire Marko Elez, a former staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), who resigned after racist social media posts surfaced. The decision, which Musk ...

“To err is human”? Wrong! To err is life. Everything that has ever lived has been a product of natural selection. Those that learn from their mistakes survive. Even the lowly virus responsible for ...