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Impact Signals #135: Athens Hospital Reports 40 Percent Drop in Under-Triage, Google Adds 100 Million Dollars to Gates Farm AI, Texas Counts 8 of 160 Wildfire Plans An Athens military hospital has put nine months of emergency-department triage results on the record: 2,500 patients, a 40 percent reduction in under-assessment of severity. In Texas, a legislative committee counted how many utilities in fire country have actually filed the wildfire plan state law requires, and the answer was 8 out of 160. A survey of 51 state technology chiefs put AI above cybersecurity for the first time, while just 53 percent reported a formal IT investment governance policy. Today's signal is measurement: who is publishing the outcome, who is counting the filings, and who moved the priority before the governance caught up. --- Top Stories **1. Athens Hospital Reports 40 Percent Reduction in Under-Triage Across 2,500 Emergency Patients** NIMTS, the Nursing Institution of the Army Share Fund hospital in Athens, is running an algorithmic patient-triage system in its Emergency Department as part of a formal study, and has released nine months of preliminary results covering about 2,500 patients. The hospital reports a 40 percent reduction in under-assessment of case severity, meaning fewer patients sorted into a lower-urgency queue than their condition warranted, and roughly a 50 percent reduction in waiting times. The same hospital is six months into a separate home telemedicine programme for th…