Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

The scrub nurse clicked “medication administered” in the hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) at 02:03 a.m. Two hours later an infusion pump alarmed, and by dawn a previously stable patient was ...

One of the difficulties in deciding what litigation e-tools to use is trying to figure out what companies are dependable enough to even take a look at. Well, dependability isn’t a problem with ...

In the Big Data era, data is not only becoming bigger and bigger; it is also becoming more and more complex. This translates into a spectacular increase of the dimensionality of the data. For example, ...