Harnessing choice architecture to improve medical care

Harnessing technology to improve patient care.

The authors of “Electronic Prescribing: Improving the Efficiency and Accuracy of Prescribing in the Ambulatory Care Setting” write how e-prescribing can play an important role in enhancing safety and quality. E-prescribing allows prescribers to send prescriptions electronically to the pharmacy and can be a stand-alone system or part of an integrated EHR system. Research suggests medication erro...

Harnessing Protease Activity to Improve Cancer Care

Proteolysis plays critical roles in normal and pathologic physiology; these enzymes are intricately involved in cancer progression and spread. Our understanding of protease function has advanced from nonspecific degrading enzymes to a modern appreciation of their diverse roles in posttranslational modification and signaling in a complexmicroenvironment.This newunderstanding has led to next-gene...

Assessment: harnessing change to improve standards.

Harnessing User Data to Improve Facebook Features

The recent explosion of online social networking through sites like Twitter, MySpace, Facebook has millions of users spending hours a day sorting through information on their friends, coworkers and other contacts. These networks also house massive amounts of user activity information that is often used for advertising purposes but can be utilized for other activities as well. Facebook, now the ...

Harnessing Technology to Improve K–12 Education

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