Latest updates from the Joint Commission

The Joint Commission clarifies key compliance issues.

Joint Commission targets fatigue from clinicians' extended hours.

New/Revised diagnostic imaging standards from Joint Commission.

T he Joint Commission (Oakbrook Terrace, IL) announced on December 20 changes to its standards for accredited hospitals, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory health care organizations that provide diagnostic imaging services, including ambulatory organizations that have achieved Advanced Diagnostic Imaging certification. The changes will be effective July 1, 2014, with additional requireme...

A Model Explanation System: Latest Updates and Extensions

We propose a general model explanation system (MES) for “explaining” the output of black box classifiers. This paper describes extensions to Turner (2015), which is referred to frequently in the text. We use the motivating example of a classifier trained to detect fraud in a credit card transaction history. The key aspect is that we provide explanations applicable to a single prediction, rather...

Polymers in Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery System-latest Updates

Bioadhesion can be defined as a phenomenon of interfacial molecular attractive forces amongst the surfaces of the biological substrate and the natural or synthetic polymers, which allows the polymer to adhere to the biological surface for an extended period of time. Bioadhesive polymeric systems have been used in the development of products for various biomedical applications and surgical glue....