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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO

Moreover, IHG’s cloud backbone enables it to take advantage of emerging SaaS offerings, such as Speakeasy AI conversational chatbots, and deliver its own IHG Voice Cloud AI service to help guests and reception desk clerks at hundreds of hotels. The next wave of hospitality innovations may very well be driven by generative AI.

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RN Coders Can Improve Hospital Data Strategies

Smart Data Collective

One study found that 56% of hospitals do not have any data analytics or governance strategies. Hospitals that want to develop data strategies need to improve decision-making need to use the right technology. One technology data-driven hospitals should invest in is RN coders. RN coders can be very helpful in this regard.

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How Hospital Security Breaches Devastate Local Communities

Smart Data Collective

Their objective is only to create fear and distrust— something they can accomplish quite effectively by making people feel unsafe at their hospitals. This is all to say that hospital cyber-security breaches can have a devastating impact on the people impacted. Most hospitals operate on razor-thin margins. Then, the pandemic hit.

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Hospitals Make Massive Inroads on COVID-19 Battle with EMS Data

Smart Data Collective

COVID-19 has changed how hospitals and EMS services function dramatically. But how are hospitals using EMS data during COVID-19? Hospitals could be missing out on critical data before the patient comes through the doors. EMS provides hospitals with crucial data. EMS Data Changes the Roadmap to Fighting COVID-19.

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Healthcare organizations must create a strong data foundation to fully benefit from generative AI

CIO

This is where the healthcare industry has a distinct advantage because payers and providers are sitting on an enormous amount of existing data. In fact, the average hospital produces 50 petabytes of data a year. Nearly 80% of hospital data is unstructured and most of it has been underutilized until now. Library of Congress.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO

Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. I am in the business of hospitality.

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO

We closed three of our own data centers and went entirely to the cloud with several providers, and we also assembled a new data strategy to completely restructure the company, from security and finance, to hospitality and a new website. We made everything new from scratch. How many people, then, make up Radisson’s IT area worldwide?

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