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Can AI Address Health Care’s Red-Tape Problem?

Harvard Business

Using AI-powered tools capable of processing vast amounts of data and making real-time recommendations, some hospitals and insurers are discovering that they can reduce administrative hours, especially in the areas of regulatory documentation and fraudulent claims. Easier and Improved Documentation. Automated Fraud Detection.

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business

Other research has documented that the pay gap between firms is contributing to increased income inequality, but our work makes two additional contributions. One of them has clearly been information technology. First, we use new OECD data that is representative of the whole population of businesses in 16 countries. .”

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What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Harvard Business

These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising. Because no one likes to fund fundraising. It’s sales. And you get the capacity to handle program growth, but you don’t get any actual program growth.

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Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?

Harvard Business

.” Associate Justice Stewart probably didn’t know how new data technologies would soon begin to blur those boundaries.

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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Trainees with AR assistance are 35% more time efficient than trainees using traditional 2D documentation, and 90% more likely to perform an operation correctly the first time. Conducting research for the School of Information Systems, she is invested in obtaining a career that advances information technologies.

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How to Accelerate the Adoption of Digital Health Technology

Harvard Business

In 1997, health information technology and digitial health pioneer Warner Slack wrote his bold and prophetic book, Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Care. Jamie Jones/Getty Images. And while patient-oriented digital solutions have proliferated in number, their clinical impact has been limited.

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Researchers at the OECD have documented the rise of superstar firms and their relationship to wage inequality, and found that use of IT is one of the primary drivers.