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Making Sense of Pathogen Surveillance
Pathogen surveillance—collecting and sharing data about infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance—informs key public health decisions. What pathogen surveillance initiatives exist currently? And what are the main challenges they face?
Nov 15, 2023
Commentary
How Might AI Affect the Rise and Fall of Nations?
As artificial intelligence continues to advance, geopolitics may never be the same. The AI development path that ultimately unfolds will matter enormously for the shape and contours of the future world.
Nov 3, 2023

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For Health IT to Reach Its Potential to Improve Patient Care, New Focused Efforts Are Needed
Despite significant investment in health information technology such as computerized health records and clinical decision support, leveraging the technology to improve the quality of care will require significant and sustained effort by health systems.
Oct 27, 2020
News Release
Facebook Users May Spread Russian Propaganda Less Often When They Are Aware of Its Source
Russian propaganda is hitting its mark on social media—generating strong partisan reactions that may help intensify political divisions—but Facebook users are less apt to press the “like” button on content when they learn that it is part of a foreign propaganda campaign.
Oct 15, 2020
News Release
Coordinated Efforts on Twitter to Interfere in the U.S. Presidential Election Are Likely Foreign
A coordinated effort on Twitter to influence the upcoming U.S. presidential election—using trolls (fake personas that spread hyper-partisan themes) and super-connectors (highly-networked accounts)—aims to sow distrust, exacerbate political divisions and undermine confidence in American democracy.
Oct 8, 2020
News Release
Telemedicine Can Help Safety-Net Providers Expand Specialized Medical Services
Safety-net medical providers can substantially increase their telemedicine services with modest investments in new staff and technology, a move that can help them expand patients' access to specialized medical care.
Jul 29, 2020
News Release
Project Will Create First Digital Health Dataset That Includes Traditionally Underrepresented Groups
An initiative to create the first large-scale digital health dataset of Americans that is fully representative across all socio-demographic groups—including ethnic and economic groups usually underrepresented—has been launched by the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, the RAND Corporation and Evidation Health.
Jul 28, 2020
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Future Quantum Computers May Pose Threat to Today's Most-Secure Communications
Quantum computers that are exponentially faster than any of our current classical computers and are capable of code-breaking applications could be available in 12 to 15 years, posing major risks to the security of current communications systems.
Apr 9, 2020
News Release
Pentagon's Ambitious Vision and Strategy for AI Not Yet Backed by Sufficient Visibility or Resources
The U.S. Department of Defense has articulated an ambitious vision and strategy for artificial intelligence (AI) with the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center as the focal point, but the DoD has yet to provide the JAIC with the visibility, authorities and resource commitments needed to scale AI and its impact across the department.
Dec 17, 2019
News Release
One-Third of Americans Use News Sources They Consider Less Reliable
One-third of Americans rely on news platforms they acknowledge are less reliable, mainly social media and peers. The other two-thirds of the public consider their primary news sources trustworthy, mainly print news and broadcast television.
Dec 10, 2019
News Release
Hostile Social Manipulation by Russia and China a Growing but Poorly Understood Threat
With the role of information warfare in global strategic competition becoming much more apparent, a new RAND Corporation report delves into better defining and understanding the challenge facing the United States by focusing on the hostile social manipulation activities of the two leading users of such techniques: Russia and China.
Sep 4, 2019
News Release
Child Psychiatry Telephone Consultation Programs Help Increase Mental Health Services for Children
Telephone hotlines that allow primary care doctors to immediately consult with a child psychiatrist about urgent patient problems appear to increase the number of children who receive aid, offering one strategy to help more children receive mental health services.
Jul 15, 2019
News Release
Social Marketing Campaign to Reduce Mental Illness Stigma May Have Helped Those in Need
People who recalled seeing or hearing aspects of a social marketing campaign in California intended to reduce stigma about mental health issues were more likely to seek treatment for their symptoms of mental distress than those who did not recall the campaign.
Jun 26, 2019
News Release
U.S. Journalism Has Become More Subjective
U.S.-based journalism has gradually shifted away from objective news and offers more opinion-based content that appeals to emotion and relies heavily on argumentation and advocacy.
May 14, 2019
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The 'Telephone First' Approach by GPs Does Not Work for All Patients
The 'telephone first' approach in general practice does not work for all patients and can lead to challenges for primary care staff. The system clearly suited some patients, avoiding the need to visit the surgery, but was difficult for others.
May 8, 2019
News Release
RAND Report Evaluates Possible Economic Benefits of Using 5.9 GHz Band for WiFi
Opening up the 5.9 GHz frequency band for WiFi use could result in significant economic benefits, both in terms of contribution to GDP and in economic surplus.
Nov 29, 2018
News Release
Youth-Oriented Mental Health Campaign Shows Evidence of Success
A community engagement campaign launched by Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health to address mental health barriers had an impressive reach with the younger audience it targeted and showed signs of changing attitudes.
Nov 14, 2018
News Release
Complex and Rapidly Changing Payment Models Challenge Physician Practices
Physician payment models are becoming more complex and the pace of change is increasing, creating challenges for physician practices that might hamper their ability to improve the quality and efficiency of care despite their willingness to change.
Oct 24, 2018
News Release
Mobile Phones and Smartphone Apps Hold Promise for Allowing Patient Participation in Improving Medical Record Matching
Mobile phones and smartphone apps offer a promising approach to ensure that an individual's medical records when shared between different health care providers are matched correctly.
Aug 22, 2018
News Release
Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine Can Deliver Routine Care to Affected People Following Natural Disasters
Direct-to-consumer telemedicine is a viable way to deliver medical care in the days following a natural disaster, although most people who use such services do so for routine matters rather than disaster-caused illnesses.
Apr 25, 2018
News Release
By 2040, Artificial Intelligence Could Upend Nuclear Stability
Artificial intelligence has the potential to upend the foundations of nuclear deterrence by the year 2040. While AI-controlled doomsday machines are considered unlikely, the hazards of artificial intelligence for nuclear security lie instead in its potential to encourage humans to take potentially apocalyptic risks
Apr 24, 2018
News Release
RAND Identifies New Strategies for Countering Russian Social Media Influence in Eastern Europe
Russia is waging a social media campaign in the Baltics, Ukraine and nearby states to sow dissent against neighboring governments, as well as NATO and the European Union.
Apr 12, 2018

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Cyber and Data Sciences

Topic Synonyms:
Computer and Information Science and Technology;
Computer Science;
Computer Technology;
Computing;
Informatics;
Information Science;
Information Technology;
IS;
IST;
IT

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Hsin Sheng Ma

Ph.D. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School, and Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND

Michael Ma is a Ph.D. student in the Research, Analysis, and Design stream at Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy analyst at RAND. His research interests include demographic changes, aging, pension, labor economics, data science, quantitative modeling, and international…
Brenna O'Neill

Research Programmer

Brenna O'Neill (she/her) is a research programmer in the RAND Corporation's Research Programming Group. She works primarily in RAND Healthcare, and performs database management as well as analytic tasks including extracting, cleaning and maintaining large complex datasets, as well as performing…

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