Agile working practices are already widespread in companies in German-speaking countries. But there is still a lot of catching up to do in many areas. This is shown in a recent study by the management and technology consultancy BearingPoint. Companies in Austria and Germany were surveyed for this.
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Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI are Joining Forces
Artificial intelligence is becoming good at many “human” jobs – diagnosing disease, translating languages, providing customer service – and it’s improving fast. This is raising reasonable fears that AI will ultimately replace human workers throughout the economy. But that’s not the inevitable, or even most likely, outcome. Never before have digital tools been so responsive to us, nor we to our tools. While AI will radically alter how work gets done and who does it, the technology’s larger impact will be in complementing and augmenting human capabilities, not replacing them.
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Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare: benefits, use cases and evolutions
The usage of the IoT in healthcare has sharply increased across various specific Internet of Things use cases. At the same time we see how other healthcare IoT use cases are picking up speed and the connected healthcare reality is accelerating, even if hurdles remain.
Thus far, most IoT initiatives in healthcare revolved around the improvement of care as such with remote monitoring and telemonitoring as main applications. A second area where many initiatives exist is tracking, monitoring and maintenance of assets, using IoT and RFID. This is done on the level of medical devices and healthcare assets, the people level and the non-medical asset level (e.g. hospital building assets).
However, these deployments and use cases are just the beginning and, at the same time, are far from omnipresent.
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