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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

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

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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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Healthcare providers focus on quality for the next phase of digital transformation

CIO

The key for success in many of these new digital transformation efforts will be collaborating with partners in areas such as technology modernization, security, data, and artificial intelligence (AI). Hospitals and large payer institutions are not in the core business of IT,” Sanders says.

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Global Hospitals Embark On A Worldwide Medical Data Initiative

Smart Data Collective

More than 15,000 hospitals around the world collect real-time data on their patients. Hospitals, medical research centers , health centers, clinics, industry, administrations, drug agencies, laboratories, health websites all generate large amounts of data, which will be key to the transformation of the health system.

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