| PolyAnalyst Improves Patient Safety At The Department Of Veterans ...
The National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) implements text mining technologies to enhance the analysis of patient safety reports. The VA NCPS analysts are utilizing the PolyAnalyst™ data and text mining system from Megaputer Intelligence to detect common patterns, identify emerging trends, and determine root causes of issues in patient safety reports received from the 153 hospitals operated by the VA.
The goal of the VA NCPS is the reduction and prevention of inadvertent harm to patients as a result of care. To accomplish this goal, the VA analysts strive to learn from safety reports representing close calls, also known as "near misses," which occur at a much higher frequency than actual adverse events. This approach focuses efforts on continually identifying potential problems and proactively fixing them to improve patient safety and quality of care.
Romney opens up Republican race
Other contenders, including former Law and Order actor Fred Thompson, and Mr Giuliani, ranked in low single figures. Campaigning under the slogan "Washington Is Broken", a triumphant Mr Romney said a win had appeared impossible just a week ago, but the people of this beleaguered state had backed his call for change. "We are celebrating here in Michigan, I can tell you. Guess what they are doing in Washington? They are worrying," Mr Romney said. "Tonight is a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism." Hillary Clinton won a "dead rubber" Democratic primary vote with 56 per cent of the vote. But her main opponents, Barack Obama and John Edwards, had withdrawn from the race when the national party punished state for moving its primary to an earlier date.
Bob Jane's wife will stand trial
THE tyre magnate Bob Jane was 58 when he arranged for a teenage beauty queen he fancied to hitch a ride in a Lear jet with the Beatle George Harrison to meet him at the Adelaide Formula One Grand Prix in the mid-1980s. It was life in the fast lane for an 18-year-old from Bathurst but, after 20 years of marriage and three children, the souring of relations between the couple was yesterday played out in court. Laree Madonna Jane, 40, was committed to stand trial on four charges of assaulting her husband, including with a 30-centimetre carving knife, during an argument at her South Yarra apartment in December 2006. In a statement to police tendered to the Melbourne Magistrates Court, Bob Jane said the incident occurred when the couple had been separated for a month and he was invited to visit their eldest daughter Courtney, 18, who was recovering from surgery.
Scotland's best: Bannockburn, Bond or Baxter?
This means key dates such as the victory at Bannockburn in 1314, and the Act of Union in 1707 will be compared with the publication of a work of literature or a major achievement in the sporting arena. The series, with a budget in excess of £100,000, will be kick-started by TV promotions asking viewers to send in their nominations. Three half-hour programmes in November will use on-screen champions - celebrities and historians - to make their case for 30 key events. Viewers will then be encouraged to vote for their favourites online. The series will culminate in a one-hour studio debate among a seven-strong panel of Scotland's leading historians, chaired by Professor Tom Devine on St Andrew's Night (November 30), when the winner will be revealed. Events already certain to feature strongly are the Wars of Independence, in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the 18th-century publication of the works of Robert Burns, the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, and the 16th-century Reformation.
George Starr says, ‘I was born with a love for sports’
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