Healthcare recovering from CrowdStrike outage

Many affected health systems say they’re back up and running, days after a global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update that took millions of Microsoft systems offline on July 19. The outage affected industries around the world – not least healthcare, where it caused some providers to revert to pen and paper after … Read more

Apocalypse not now: Google’s cookie carpet pull points to ‘deprecation by default’, but the market has already moved on – and regulators are lining up

Google has clearly taken negotiation lessons from my teenage children: I’ll get it, I’ll get it, I’ll get it. Oops. Yesterday’s announcement by the digital advertising leviathan that after four years of creating fear, uncertainty and doubt that it would abandon plans to deprecate cookies and instead move to a browser-based consent model was shocking. … Read more

Australia’s phone companies are giving away free phones and gift vouchers in a last-minute bid to lure customers off 3G

Briefly: Almost 200,000 Australians still rely solely on 3G devices, which will stop working within weeks. Telstra and Optus are now giving away phones and vouchers to help vulnerable Australians get better. What is expected next? The 3G network is being phased out to make way for 4G and 5G technologies. Telstra and Optus are … Read more

Or Hen: Getting to the Core of Matter

Occasionally, Ose Hen, who recently took over as an associate professor of physics at MIT, will refer to a file he’s kept since high school. The file is a comprehensive assessment of Hen’s learning disabilities stemming from dysgraphia – a neurological condition in which one has difficulty translating their thoughts into written form. Hen was … Read more

Video Quick Take: Unisys’ Peter Altabef on Empowering Businesses Through AI and Quantum Computing

Unisys is a global technology solutions company that powers breakthroughs for the world’s leading organizations. Unisys’ solutions – cloud, AI, digital workplace, logistics and enterprise computing – help clients challenge the status quo and unlock their full potential. To learn more click here. Todd Pruzan, HBR Welcome to the HBR Video Quick Take. I’m Todd … Read more

AdventHealth virtual MRI program reduces inpatient transfers by 94%

Not too long ago, AdventHealth had a high demand in its Central and East Florida divisions for advanced MRI services. The health system’s centralized MRI services at its Orlando campus, though effective, presented areas where AdventHealth could deliver a more consumer-centric experience. THE PROBLEM Expanding advanced MRI services to the community hospitals presented its own … Read more