A physician's take on Outliers

EMRs for specialists: physicians take the helm.

E822 CMAJ, December 10, 2013, 185(18) © 2013 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors The invitation extended to Dr. Vandana Ahluwalia to purchase an electronic medical records system for her Brampton, Ontario, rheumatology practice was both welcome and challenging. On the one hand, the offer came with a tantalizing cash incentive — up to $28 000 in free money from the Ontario and federal ...

A Pragmatic Guide on How Physicians Can Take Over Financial Control of Their Clinical Practice

Control of clinical cost is becoming increasingly important in health care worldwide. Physicians should accept the limitation of resources and take responsibility to improve their clinical cost-reimbursement ratio. To achieve this, they will need basic education in clinic management to control and adjust costs and reimbursement, without impacting professional quality of care. Rational use of di...

Bristol and Kennedy: the 'take-home' messages for physicians.

The obligation of physicians to medical outliers: a Kantian and Hegelian synthesis

BACKGROUND Patients who present to medical practices without health insurance or with serious co-morbidities can become fiscal disasters to those who care for them. Their consumption of scarce resources has caused consternation among providers and institutions, especially as it concerns the amount and type of care they should receive. In fact, some providers may try to avoid caring for them alt...

On Detecting Spatial Outliers

The ever-increasing volume of spatial data has greatly challenged our ability to extract useful but implicit knowledge from them. As an important branch of spatial data mining, spatial outlier detection aims to discover the objects whose non-spatial attribute values are significantly different from the values of their spatial neighbors. These objects, called spatial outliers, may reveal importa...