Thomas Osborne, MD - March 18, 2021 - 144 views

With large numbers of people suffering and dying from COVID every day, there’s no time to waste. As a result, we’ve been driven to meet this challenge with the most advanced care strategies and latest technological tools available. Key factors for success that we’ve identified include collaboration and the ability to understand complex interrelated factors […]

Risto Miikkulainen - March 11, 2021 - 132 views

The recently concluded XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge reveals the role advanced artificial intelligence (AI) can play in helping to find solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges.  The competition challenged AI practitioners to develop not only better models to predict where the COVID-19 pandemic is headed, but also to recommend what we should do about it: that […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, businesses had more questions than answers: Which policies would stem the spread? What’s the best way to distribute vaccines? How can we safely reopen? While many questions are still being debated, it’s clear what distinguishes leaders from laggards: preparedness with data, artificial intelligence (AI), the cloud and agile practices. The […]

Brian Williams - February 11, 2021 - 373 views

In previous blogs, I’ve discussed how the cloud, in its myriad dimensions, is central to disaggregation of care, value-based care and advanced AI/ML for both disease discovery and diagnostics. The cloud is also at the core of much of the innovation and evolution in life sciences. However, there is a widespread perception that life sciences […]

Babak Hodjat - February 4, 2021 - 201 views

My son graduated from college in March, but instead of pomp and circumstance, the graduation ceremony was a short Zoom call in which the dean of his college cried for much of it. Later, our vacation plans went down the drain due to the intense travel restrictions. As cases and deaths rose during the months […]

Bret Greenstein - January 5, 2021 - 660 views

As the curtain opens on 2021, there’s plenty of uncertainty mixed in with the overall hope for a better year. Amid the unknown, however, one thing is sure: Artificial intelligence will play a major role in whatever the next 12 months may bring. Second, even as businesses and governments jostle for AI domination, those who […]

Margaret Schweer - October 7, 2020 - 1633 views

Intensified by the global pandemic, a sense of belonging has become a pressing organizational priority.  Work routines have been upended for leaders and employees alike – office shutdowns, remote work, extended work hours, and furloughs and layoffs. Given the prolonged nature of the disruption, what does it mean to “belong at work” during a sustained […]

Surya Gummadi - September 29, 2020 - 244 views

COVID-19 gets too much credit for changing everything. In reality, it’s not the virus itself but how organizations and people respond to the pandemic that will – and in some cases, should – create lasting change. In healthcare, one such change is the concept of “care anywhere.” Care anywhere can mean care received at home, […]

Bret Greenstein - September 24, 2020 - 1082 views

For most of us, 2020 has ushered in unwelcome chaos and uncertainty. Who would have guessed in early March that within days, personal decisions that were once mundane – like where, when and how to get groceries – would spur paralyzing anxiety. What was missing – and still is – is information and, in particular, […]

Randal Kenworthy - September 17, 2020 - 452 views

It’s unseemly to include “silver linings” and “COVID-19” in the same sentence. The pandemic has claimed nearly a million lives worldwide. While optimism around a vaccine is reasonably high, for now it remains beyond our grasp. And we’ve barely begun to feel what the World Bank says will be the worst global recession since World […]