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Exploring the digital impact in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

CIO Business Intelligence

The pandemic accelerated the urgency for reform in health and social care around the world, which strained resources to unprecedented levels. It all reduces the ability to arrive at a budget settlement that shifts resources into the health and social care space. So you can see how my job has had to react to all of those stimulants.”

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Healthcare Now Third-Most Targeted Industry for Ransomware

SecureWorld News

Attackers are not only encrypting systems but also targeting sensitive data, including Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as diagnoses, therapy records, genetic data, and Social Security numbers. We just have to accept the risks and rely on insurance to recover.'"

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The potential massive social impact of gamification for weight loss and savings

Trends in the Living Networks

As such, we certainly need to apply what is being learned in the field of gamification, particularly its social aspects, to see how it can help positively change behaviors. The insurer also has a mobile app for smartphones, called OptumizeMe, in which users can create and challenge each other to fitness competitions.

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Celebrating the pioneers of Saudi IT: Winners of the inaugural CIO50 KSA Awards

CIO Business Intelligence

The awardees represent over 15 industries, from financial services and banking to telecommunications, healthcare, aviation, real estate, insurance, and government. By showcasing the Kingdom’s top technology minds, the CIO50 KSA Awards cements its position as the premier awards program for technology leaders in the region.

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Making data matter at Mathematica

CIO Business Intelligence

-based research firm is proud of its mission to deliver accurate data to ensure goods and services are distributed with equity and precision in a socially just manner. Mathematica employs roughly 500 social scientists and researchers and about 130 data scientists, Bell says. “A We set the vision together,” Bell says.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO Business Intelligence

Zillow Offers was a program through which the company made cash offers on properties based on a “Zestimate” of home values derived from a machine learning algorithm. High-risk care management programs provide trained nursing staff and primary-care monitoring to chronically ill patients in an effort to prevent serious complications.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Data analytics draws from a range of disciplines — including computer programming, mathematics, and statistics — to perform analysis on data in an effort to describe, predict, and improve performance. For example, how might social media spending affect sales?

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