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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

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More than 70% of IHG’s hotels — a portfolio that includes InterContinental, Kimpton Hotels, and Holiday Inn — are franchises, making parent company IHG in essence a technology product development company that bolsters the occupancy rates and revenues for the 6,100 hotels owned by franchisees.

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RN Coders Can Improve Hospital Data Strategies

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Healthcare providers are investing more heavily in big data technology, as they strive to deal with growing challenges such as declining operating margins and an increasingly complex regulatory environment. However, many healthcare providers lack the technology or knowledge to use data prudently.

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How Hospital Security Breaches Devastate Local Communities

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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. They don’t necessarily need to break into the hospital’s network.

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

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However, the effort to build, train, and evaluate this modeling is only a small fraction of what is needed to reap the vast benefits of generative AI technology. This is where the healthcare industry has a distinct advantage because payers and providers are sitting on an enormous amount of existing data. Consider the iceberg analogy.

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Data Analytics Technology Proves Benefits of an MBA

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Data analytics technology is constantly shedding new insights into our lives. Many things are well observed through anecdotal experiences, but we have had a hard time proving them before data analytics technology became mainstream. How can data analytics technology help back it up? What value does an MBA provide? Better pay.

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

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During this time, thanks to the period of reflection the health crisis afforded and the opportunity to dedicate time to innovate, González-Peralta initiated a stronger shift to technology and digitalization to better realize the transformation plan the multinational started shortly before his arrival. We made everything new from scratch.

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