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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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How Hospital Security Breaches Devastate Local Communities

Smart Data Collective

Private health information can net a large profit on the dark web , making even just one patient’s personal records a potentially lucrative discovery. Their objective is only to create fear and distrust— something they can accomplish quite effectively by making people feel unsafe at their hospitals. Then, the pandemic hit. More closed.

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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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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. I like to call the IT department ‘information decision systems.’ For us this is fundamental.

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Global Hospitals Embark On A Worldwide Medical Data Initiative

Smart Data Collective

One of the biggest developments was the implementation of the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care , which took data from 50,000 patients dating back to 2001. More than 15,000 hospitals around the world collect real-time data on their patients. What advantages does it offer in the realm of biomedical R&D? Conclusion.

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5 tips for maximizing ROI of IT projects

CIO

For organizations to work optimally, “information technology must be aligned with business vision and mission,” says Shuvankar Pramanick, deputy CIO at Manipal Health Enterprises. Suppose a hospital develops an app for patients’ appointment and consultation.

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How CareSource IT is addressing data interoperability challenges in healthcare

CIO

One key challenge facing the healthcare industry today is the inability to easily access and share electronic medical information between healthcare providers, clinicians, and patients. Improving interoperability and eliminating roadblocks, however, is not an easy task.

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