The Black Box of Implementing Strategic Decisions

Implementing Black Box Warnings (BBWs) in Health Information Systems

Objective: To develop a practical approach for implementing clinical decision support (CDS) for medication black box warnings (BBWs) into health information systems (HIS). Methods: We reviewed all existing medication BBWs and organized them into a taxonomy that identifies opportunities and challenges for implementing CDS for BBWs into HIS. Results: Of the over 400 BBWs that currently exist, the...

Inside the Black Box: Organisational Buying Behaviour and Strategic Purchasing in Healthcare: A Response to Recent Commentary

Knowledge Extraction from the Neural ‘Black Box’ in Ecological Monitoring

Phytoplankton biomass within the Saginaw Bay ecosystem (Lake Huron, Michigan, USA) was characterized as a function of select physical/chemical indicators. The complexity and variability of ecological systems typically make it difficult to model the influences of anthropogenic stressors and/or natural disturbances. Here, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) were developed to model chlorophyll a con...

Beyond the black box

As developers of SageMath, we show how open software facilitates corrections. “Commercial computer algebra systems are black boxes, and their algorithms are opaque to the users,” complained a trio ofmathematicianswhose “misfortunes” are detailed in a recent Notices article [2]. “We reported the bug on October 7, 2013...By June 2014, nothing had changed ...All we could do was wait.”

Opening the Black Box

Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address this gap by: (i) specifying a structural model of the main relationships; (ii) estimating the impact of aid on a range of final and intermediate outcome...