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"The most dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers will naturally make better, more objective decisions. Making consistently timely, effective, informed decisions takes hard work. Trust me – it’s worth it. Effective decision-making is the essential common ingredient behind every successful step, initiative, and strategy that people, organizations, and national governments undertake."
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Ozzie Paez
Jul 23, 20232 min read
Analysis and the Bias of Proximity
We are most affected by people, events, and other aspects of our world that are closest to us. It’s an important consideration when...
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Ozzie Paez
Jun 16, 20222 min read
Improving patient engagement with Biobeat's 24BP
This week I will discuss how the Covid pandemic and innovative new technologies are affecting hypertension control programs and patient...
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 18, 20222 min read
Patients and innovators in healthcare
My last post demonstrated through an actual case how wearable health monitors and continuous patient monitoring are empowering patients...
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 6, 20222 min read
Patients driving healthcare innovation
Discussions of innovative medical technologies such as BioBeat’s remote patient monitoring system are usually framed from the...
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 18, 20211 min read
Sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT)
This post focuses on sensing technologies indispensable to many #AI applications in fields like agriculture, medicine, and #epidemiology....
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Improving models and predictions
My previous post illustrated modeling through the SIR epidemiological model. This one describes how models are updated based on how well...
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Ozzie Paez
Feb 18, 20211 min read
Modeling Infectious Diseases (SIR)
My last post discussed how #AI, #modeling, and #analytics complement each other and synergistically drive performance and...
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Ozzie Paez
Feb 9, 20211 min read
AI's indispensable enablers
Artificial intelligence is most effective when complemented with other technologies, particularly modeling and analytics. These are...
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Ozzie Paez
Oct 5, 20203 min read
Availability heuristic and decisions on thin ice
THIS POST was first published in April 2012. It follows my previous post on heuristics and decision-making. It has been updated to...
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Ozzie Paez
Aug 1, 20201 min read
The future of medicines
COVID-19 is helping illuminate how our genetic makeup affects our response to viruses, medicines, and therapies.
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Ozzie Paez
Jul 21, 20201 min read
Prepare for 2021
Sometimes conditions beyond their control leave business leaders with few good choices...
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Ozzie Paez
Jun 27, 20201 min read
Benchmarks and uncertainty
he COVID-19 crisis has been exasperating for many of us in part because of contradictory explanations from experts and news sources...
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 17, 20201 min read
Assessing COVID-19 risks
To understand my odds and make good decisions, I needed representative data and context...
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 14, 20201 min read
NYC best source of COVID data
he city and State are providing better data on Coronavirus than has been available from other trusted sources.
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 10, 20201 min read
Riding bad data to lousy decisions
...we often lend automatic credibility to information and decisions based on data. It’s reasonable in many instances, but not always.
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 7, 20201 min read
Shortcomings in our response to Corona
Does it make sense to deal with this bug through policies that will drive the world-economy to an also deadly economic recession?...
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Ozzie Paez
Apr 24, 20193 min read
Healthcare's changing landscape – Part I
It’s a foregone conclusion that healthcare will be dramatically different in ten years or less. All the pieces are in place for a broad...
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 9, 20193 min read
Artificial intelligence and stock markets
It’s impossible to miss the wild, record swings in the stock market. Scary things for investors accustomed to more sensible market...
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Ozzie Paez
May 11, 20182 min read
Alan Dershowitz - Data analyst?
Politico reported shock in the legal community over Alan Dershowitz's frequent defense of President Trump[1]. They shouldn't and wouldn't...
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