From now on it will take a lead role in co-ordinating and monitoring tougher financial regulations and serve (along with the IMF) as an early-warning system for emerging risks.

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It could also lead to higher compliance costs, as cloud monitoring practices become more rigorous on testing and prevention of outages.

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"There isn't going to be one magic bullet to solve the problem of diagnostic error, but we can start by consistently monitoring and measuring it, " says David Newman-Toker, lead author of the study and an associate professor of neurology at Hopkins.

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