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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

Medical device companies are catching on to the financial potential of these devices and are beginning to add medical wearables to their product lines. For example, an insurance company that gains access to a person’s health records could use information about a pre-existing condition to limit the insurance coverage it offers.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. The call center logs customer complaints. Or as Intel Corp.’s

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Gender equality, employee experience and HCM compliance: the top-read posts of 2017

MBO Partners

We’ll see this continue to trend in 2018, with greater use of AI technology and analytics, and a greater focus on the employee lifecycle as a whole. Deb LaMere and Allianz Life Insurance Company’s Tracy Bruckschen discussed strategies to avoid a bad hire in a webinar. Other hot topics? Evolving the employee experience. Culture clash.

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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

On June 2, 2018 Jason Zweig’s article in the Wall Street Journal was titled, “ The Fanciful Alphabet Soup Companies Use to Fool You.” Medical insurance expense. And a recent one I’ve seen, the expense for research and development (for a company with a patented propriety product). as if all owners don’t deduct these). Conclusion.

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3 Kinds of Jobs That Will Thrive as Automation Advances

Harvard Business

Many of us are also becoming more demanding — we are less and less willing to settle for standardized, mass market products when it is far easier to seek out the niche products that are tailored to our specific needs and context. Internet users had almost doubled between 2014 and 2018, reaching almost one third of the user base.

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New Technologies in the Insurance Landscape (Part 2 – Blockchain)

Tom Spencer

Insurance industry observers, for their part, believe that the innovative distributed ledger could introduce a variety of improvements and efficiencies to the insurance landscape, and have the following four applications: Fraud detection. Peer-to-peer insurance. Peer-to-Peer Insurance. Identity management.

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Helping Remote Workers Avoid Loneliness and Burnout

Harvard Business

It’s a weekday and Jeff, the director of technology at Economical Insurance, kisses his daughter and waves goodbye as she enters the doors of her public school. The 2018 Future Workforce Report by Upwork claims 63% of U.S. According to the 2018 State of Remote Work , loneliness is the biggest struggle to working remotely.