November 9, 2026
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6 stories
Predicted census is accurate. Predicted acuity is not, and the schedules built on it are producing shifts that the model considers adequately covered.
Ethicists argue that burying model disclosure in admission paperwork satisfies a legal requirement and defeats the purpose.
An audit found the strongest feature was distance to clinic, and the resulting overbooking policy fell hardest on the patients least able to absorb it.
An experiment found that adding plausible explanations raised agreement with the model regardless of whether the model was right.
Nearly two-thirds of surveyed systems now run subgroup performance audits. Fewer than a fifth have ever changed a deployed model because of one.
Waitlists are long and the tools are cheap. The safety literature is limited to short trials in low-acuity populations.