Morning Headlines 1/16/17
Justices Will Hear Challenges to Mandatory Employee Arbitration
The Supreme Court agrees to hear a case brought by Epic and two other corporations seeking clarification on the use of arbitration clauses in employment agreements that prohibit employees from banding together to take legal action over workplace issues.
Hospital closes systems after IT attack
In England, Barts Health NHS Trust shuts down several of its IT systems after suffering a “non-ransomware” cyberattack.
The Biggest Changes Obamacare Made, and Those That May Disappear
The New York Times offers point-by-point analysis of the real impact of repealing ACA and outlines possible replacement legislation.
Rudeness and Medical Team Performance
Researchers in Israel finds that when nurses are scolded by rude patients, their performance decreases across all measured clinical quality categories for not only that patient, but all of their patients. Preventative cognitive bias modification programs were shown to help neutralize the impact rudeness has on performance.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.