Truth and Trust in Science: Are They Negotiable?

from The Health Care Blog at https://bit.ly/3BWm0nq on September 30, 2022 at 05:33PM BY MIKE MAGEE “The key is trust. It is when people feel totally alienated and isolated that the society breaks down. Telling the truth is what held society together.” Those words were voiced sixteen years ago in Washington, D.C. It was October […]

Neues HCHE Research Paper vergleicht DRG-Reformen in 10 OECD-Ländern

from HCHE News at https://bit.ly/3Cnk5tw on September 30, 2022 at 02:54PM In vielen Mitgliedsländern der OECD werden nach neuen Wegen gesucht, um Krankenhäuser für stationäre Leistungen zu bezahlen. Das bislang vorherrschende DRG-System steht auf dem Prüfstand. Die Länder experimentieren derzeit mit neuen Formen der Vergütung, woraus sich vier Reformtrands ableiten lassen. Sie zeigen eine Verlagerung […]

What is needed to gain support for effective algorithms in hiring, etc?

from Market Design at https://bit.ly/3UNBJ0N on September 29, 2022 at 01:11PM  Here’s an experiment motivated in part by European regulations on transparency of algorithms. Aversion to Hiring Algorithms: Transparency, Gender Profiling, and Self-Confidence  by Marie-Pierre Dargnies, Rustamdjan Hakimov and Dorothea Kübler Abstract: "We run an online experiment to study the origins of algorithm aversion. Participants […]