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Improving the Patient Experience: People, Process, Place Model

Tom Spencer

1 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) increased this incentive to approximately 2% of Medicare payments in 2017. Some ways to improve night-time noise include introducing practices for staff such as guidelines for night-time care, quiet voices, and procedures for resupply and equipment movement. Image: Pexels.

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China's Bill for Cleaning Air Pollution Mounts; State TV Promotes Benefits of Smog

MishTalk

A safe level under WHO guidelines is 25 micrograms per cubic meter. Pollution in China''s Heilongjiang Province Local residents travel on a tricycle in the smog in Harbin, northeast China''s Heilongjiang province, on October 21, 2013. dollars) for its air pollution treatment plan from 2013 to 2017, an environment expert has estimated.

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Robot Truck Convoy Tests in Nevada; Driverless Trucks Before Cars, and Before the End of the Decade

MishTalk

The technology, developed by Peloton Tech, uses radar and a wireless link so that the following trucks travel at the same speed, braking simultaneously for safety, and doing so on an automated system that doesn''t have the delays of human reaction time. These guidelines open the door for driverless tests of all kinds.