The most exciting use of artificial intelligence in healthcare is usually on the clinical front, with the development of decision support tools and drug discovery, for example. But the technology can also be of great use on the administrative side of the industry. About a third of every U.S. dollar is spent in the administrative burden ...

Application programming interfaces, or APIs, are a double-edged sword in today’s IT infrastructure. They are a driving force behind many digital transformation efforts, but they are loved by threat actors for many of the same reasons developers love them. APIs allow integration between numerous applications to enable modern web and mobile experiences, and this makes them ...

The bias in artificial intelligence has gained exponential attention as large companies are accused of unfair decisions resulting from their sophisticated algorithms. Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Goldman Sachs are just some of those that found themselves involved in such discussions. The problem with AI is that the models look like “black boxes.” Unlike ordinary software ...

The global vaccination against COVID-19 is one of the biggest challenges ever faced by the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to managing the complexity of clinical trials and the supply chain involved in vaccine manufacturing, companies need to scale production at great speed while complying with regulations in multiple countries. Business challenges like these are the ...

Software-as-a-service vendors looking to enter the lucrative public sector market often go a long way in meeting security and compliance rules. What if this could be done quickly and automatically on a pre-engineered platform? This is what Anitian Inc. promises to offer. The company is a provider of a prepackaged compliant architecture that can promptly ...

Smart cities are no longer just science fiction elements, as “internet of things: devices and self-driving cars and trucks are already a reality and produce a lot of data. The ability to capture, store and analyze the immense volumes of log data generated across these networks is no small feat. This is a challenge for ...

Every time someone visits a doctor or hospital or undergoes a test, data is created, but that information is often locked in legacy healthcare technology systems without creating business value. When insurers, healthcare providers and patients have better access to this data, they can make choices that ultimately lead to better outcomes and lower costs, ...

When energy, commodities and services company World Fuel Services Corp. — ranked 91st on the Fortune 500 — decided to migrate to the cloud, it encountered challenges common to many organizations on this journey: the need to build strong security foundation, create a cloud security operating model and find the skilled people for it. Two ...

While developers have always played a pivotal role in business innovation, this position came to prominence recently when they drove companies’ response to the pandemic – whether it was developing solutions from a medical standpoint, supporting call centers and online retail, or improving systems to enable working-from-home and homeschooling. Creating tools and services that facilitate ...

The partnership between Docker Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. to provide developers and administrators a reliable way to build, ship and run distributed applications at any scale has been around for many years. And with the increasing modernization of businesses’ IT infrastructure, that collaboration is continuing to evolve. AWS services such as Fargate, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS ...