Millions of Americans live in areas without a readily available source of medical care that also lack Internet coverage with sufficient bandwidth to make telemedicine feasible. These areas, which tend to be poor and rural, face other obstacles that render residents sicker than average.
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
WaPo: Another Form of Social Media that Makes You Sad
Dating apps are a type of social media that is little more than databases of single people advertising to meet other single people. I met my wife that way and we have been together more than a dozen years. Dating apps are a highly efficient method to meet people you otherwise would never meet. Social media in general allows members to keep in touch with people they may lose contact with. Furthermore, I suspect similar studies would find a devastating impact on mental health from trying to meet people in person. For example, before we met my wife joined a social club that engaged in outdoor activities. She soon quit the club due to a stalker.
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Asian patients were 13.3 percentage points more likely to have their claim denials reversed and Hispanic patients were 5.7 percent more likely than non-Hispanic Whites. AI program displays mathematical genius. “That’s frightening,” one mathematician said. HT: Tyler CBO: Immigration since 2021 has cost state and local governments $10.1billion. US R&D tax incentives: we are “roughly 20 percent…