Making every photon count

Making every word count for nonresponsive patients.

IMPORTANCE Despite the apparent absence of external signs of consciousness, a significant small proportion of patients with disorders of consciousness can respond to commands by willfully modulating their brain activity, even respond to yes or no questions, by performing mental imagery tasks. However, little is known about the mental life of such responsive patients, for example, with regard to...

Making every minute count: tools to improve office efficiency.

nurse when I need help, the check-in process takes too long, we’re behind schedule, and there’s too much paperwork to complete. Sound familiar? These are all situations that raise our blood pressure as physicians. Often, they are symptoms of a larger office workflow problem, and fixing it requires that we review the symptoms, diagnose the problem and apply treatment, just as we do with our pa...

Making Every Bit Count in Wide-Area Analytics

Many data sets, such as system logs, are generated from widely distributed locations. Current distributed systems often discard this data because they lack the ability to backhaul it efficiently, or to do anything meaningful with it at the distributed sites. This leads to lost functionality, efficiency, and business opportunities. The problem with traditional backhaul approaches is that they ar...

STAT--how to make every minute count.

Several years ago, our community teaching hospital identified a need to improve patient care by streamlining the study performance workflow and hastening communication of critical study results to clinicians. "STAT" studies are a carefully selected subset of imaging studies that are prioritized due to their utility in assessing for emergent conditions including cerebrovascular accidents, pneumo...

Make every mother and child count.