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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

Today, many companies are exposed to intelligent device risks that could harm both their own operations as well as their customers. Managers have to figure out their higher and lower risk intelligent device vulnerabilities, add in redundant systems, and potentially set up the AI equivalent of tsunami early-warning systems.

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

Harvard Business

Administrative and operational inefficiencies account for nearly one third of the U.S. Labor is the industry’s single largest operating expense, with six out of every 10 people who work in health care never interacting with patients. health care system’s $3 trillion in annual costs.

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How the EMR Is Increasing Innovation and Creativity in Health Care

Harvard Business

Fifty-eight percent of patients referred to Virginia Mason, our medical center in Seattle, for back surgery would be more appropriately treated without an operation. Information technology has come late to health care delivery. Electronic medical records can help correct these systemic defects.

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Empowering Digital Societies - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business

Every citizen carries a digital ID card that allows him or her to vote remotely, pay taxes with a few clicks, manage health care, and much more. Estonia has only 1.3 million citizens but is larger in landmass than Switzerland; as a result, many towns do not have a nearby government office.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. These include infant safety and injury prevention, social work, legal advocacy, case management, tutoring, fitness classes, nutrition and lactation, mental health, and dental care.

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