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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. The rest is spent in front of computers, performing administrative tasks.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

Instead, they should use a portfolio tool that classifies all existing, planned, and potential digital investments into four categories based on an assessment of their current and future contribution to business success. They are about achieving cost reduction and efficiency improvements through automation or meeting government requirements.

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How Mayo Clinic Is Combating Information Overload in Critical Care Units

Harvard Business

When layered on top of existing information infrastructure, ambient-intelligence applications can cut through the clutter and deliver the right information in a digestible form that clinicians can use, quickly and effectively at the patient’s bedside. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. In 1967, still early days in the Information Technology revolution, John Culkin had a brilliant insight. “We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”

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Personalized Recommendation Engines Are Coming to Health Care

Harvard Business

At the same time, improved care coordination, site-of-care efficiency, lifestyle improvement, reduction in overtreatment, and higher medication adherence could result in more than $500 billion a year in healthcare savings. Today, significant hurdles exist to realizing this vision.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business

Thus, as the population ages, health care services will naturally expand, as will the pressure to find efficient ways to deliver those services. Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

This method is widely used online to accurately and efficiently target customers and sell customised products and services. This has resulted in consulting firms hiring graduates with knowledge of new tools and techniques that were not previously used by senior consultants such as basic coding and analytics. Image: Pexels. References.

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