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

Steve Shu Consulting

Charlene provides some additional perspectives on customer lifetime value and net promoter score, the latter which is a personal favorite for tying brand management and social technologies together in an instructional context (e.g., Openness Covenants – This part of the book covers social media guidelines and policies.

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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business

One service, called UpToDate , employs 6,300 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers to manually review the most recent medical information to produce synopses for practicing doctors. Another strategy is to translate consensus clinical guidelines to standardized practice protocols with clinical decision support algorithms (e.g.

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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. The partnership and its results will not solve all our health care problems.

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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. In a nutshell, an IT consultant focuses on advising organizations on the best ways to use information technology (IT) to achieve their business goals. Why should you choose Consulting?

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Finally, policymakers should establish international trust and ethics guidelines to govern the development and implementation of ever more advanced AI products and systems. But they should also begin to explore steps to deal with when smart devices become even more sophisticated and potentially set and follow their own objectives.

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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. Second, health care providers will have to break down the barriers that usually exist between customized and conflicting information technology systems in different departments.

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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. Detailed prompts can standardize and improve care.