Posts Tagged ‘AI’

Artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive computing, and machine learning are becoming more common in the industry. The need to scour and analyze large sets of data is giving life sciences companies new intelligence that would never have been realized before. The technology is making a big impact on healthcare decisions and patients. When it comes to […]

It is hard to believe we are less than a month away from #HIMSS18, where the world connects for health. This years conference will take place at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, March 5-9. At this year’s event, I will be co-presenting a session with Jennifer Kotwicki, Director of Operations, BayCare […]

What happens in Vegas from March, 5-9, 2018, at the Venetian-Palazzo-Sands Expo Center, hopefully won’t stay in Vegas. The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference has returned to Sin City! Roughly 45,000 health professional, from across the globe are expected to attend this year and given the current state of healthcare, we are […]

Data is king for many reasons, and the amount of data we produce every day grows exponentially. According to some estimates, 90% of the data in existence today was created within the last two years. IBM estimates that we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, or enough to fill 10 million Blu-Ray discs. […]

  When you think of Einstein, what comes to mind? Perhaps the German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity or possibly a chain retailer of moderately priced coffee and bagels? If you use Salesforce, the term “Einstein” means a totally different thing: artificial intelligence (AI) for CRM. Einstein has made AI a reality […]

It is no secret that a data science and analytics specialty was one of the hottest and fastest growing careers in 2017, leading to resource shortages (as denoted by the picture below). However, in 2018 and beyond, a data scientist will evolve into data engineer, a data steward, and a governance lead. Every field will […]

Knowing for certain what the future holds is impossible. Trends, on the other hand, are more predictable. In fact, there’s probably no better indicator of emerging or future trends than recent history. That is exactly how we determined the trends we anticipate seeing in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries in 2018. This guide does […]

Artificial intelligence has arrived, according to a recent survey by ServiceNow. According to their data, nearly 90 percent of the 500 CIOs they surveyed across 11 countries and 25 industries are at least dabbling with machine learning, with 53 percent calling it an area of strategic focus for their companies. Most poignant within the survey […]

Here at the American Health Insurers Digital Experience Conference (AHIP), Jeff Cribs of Gartner and Ang Sun of Cambia Solutions gave an interesting presentation on AI trends to Watch in 2018. Example: the imageNet large scale challenge. Over the last 7 years it’s improved. in 2010, there was a 30% error rate. Today, Microsoft and […]

Before the holiday season arrives, IT professionals get their own holiday gift by way of IDC’s annual FutureScape, presented by their internal analysts. These predictions are meant to guide the industry through trends and issues of importance for the next 3 years ahead, including a strategic a blueprint for what CIOs and IT leaders will […]

Stock market investment has been a topic of discussion for much of the last century. From maximizing returns to understanding trends, the process has generally been manual. The cognitive cloud is changing that. Disruptive technologies are fundamentally altering the financial technology industry. They’re reducing the complexity of investment decisions by making offers and products more […]

OK, it’s not really versus because in many cases, AI will enhance the work doctors and surgeons are doing. But that said, we should monitor just how good AI is getting in the healthcare world.   Given the complexity of these scenarios, you can see how this would extend to other industries.  All that said, ieee.org […]