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Review of “Open Leadership” Framework (Leadership and Social Technologies Book)

Steve Shu Consulting

Openness Covenants – This part of the book covers social media guidelines and policies. The use of checklists and case examples makes for a nice reference and workbook to drive an organization’s development process. Covenants are about how an organization defines the “safe area of the sandbox to play in”.

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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business

Another strategy is to translate consensus clinical guidelines to standardized practice protocols with clinical decision support algorithms (e.g. Through better connectivity, information technology is improving the practice of medicine as never before. A Harvard study found that such service could improve patient outcomes.

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Apple’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry

Harvard Business

The Argonaut Project, a voluntary private sector collaborative, has provided guidelines for an open source, standardized application programming interface (API) that provides ready access to data stored in providers’ electronic records. Those apps simply don’t exist at the moment. But they could really shake things up.

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5 Steps to becoming a Successful IT Consultant

QEmploy

A consultant can also give organizational advice, offer guidelines for sourcing and managing the client’s IT resources. The process can include strategic (developing a new IT strategy or cybersecurity approach) to tactical (such as the selection of an IT system) to highly operational (such as the development of an application).

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Since insurers cannot completely mitigate the outsized risks posed by extreme weather events, governments of many developed countries and international organizations provide natural catastrophe relief through government agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency and public flood insurance programs. AI International Protocols.

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How the EMR Is Increasing Innovation and Creativity in Health Care

Harvard Business

This same mistake-proofing process and technology embedded in the electronic medical record (EMR) can move us a great distance toward safer, higher quality, and more affordable health care. Information technology has come late to health care delivery. These applications of the EMR are in early development.

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

Harvard Business

Health care providers typically spend nearly $39 billion every year to ensure that their electronic health records comply with about 600 federal guidelines. This calculus changes when providers use an AI-powered tool developed in cooperation with electronic health record vendor Cerner Corporation.