Collect Data, Tell Stories: Utilizing Available Data to Improve Wound Product Selection, Reduce Costs, and Improve Outcomes

Utilizing Untranscribed Training Data to Improve Performance

In the past few years, the Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition (LVCSR) community has attempted to address the problem of speech recognition on languages other than English. Work on the CallHome Corpora has veri ed that current technology is largely language independent, and that the dominant factor with regards to performance on a certain language is the amount of training data a...

Disaggregated data to improve child health outcomes

BACKGROUND The District Health Information System was developed in South Africa to collect aggregated routine data from public health facilities. In Amajuba District, KwaZulu-Natal, ward-based data collection has been initiated to facilitate improved responsiveness to community health needs and improve health outcomes and patient satisfaction. AIM To assess the application of the municipal wa...

Linking data to improve health outcomes.

Does intermediate care improve patient outcomes or reduce costs?

ICUs are an essential but expensive part of all modern hospitals. With increasingly limited healthcare funding, methods to reduce expenditure without negatively influencing patient outcomes are, therefore, of interest. One possible solution has been the development of 'intermediate care units', which provide more intensive monitoring and patient management with higher nurse:patient ratios than ...

A method to solve the problem of missing data, outlier data and noisy data in order to improve the performance of human and information interaction

Abstract Purpose: Errors in data collection and failure to pay attention to data that are noisy in the collection process for any reason cause problems in data-based analysis and, as a result, wrong decision-making. Therefore, solving the problem of missing or noisy data before processing and analysis is of vital importance in analytical systems. The purpose of this paper is to provide a metho...