Remember the Y2K bug, the computer coding flaw that was predicted to cause global havoc when the two-digit dates embedded in software rolled over from 1999 to 2000? After organizations around the world spent a year checking and upgrading their systems to deal with the issue, few major problems ended up occurring.
The world is now on the brink of what could be called the Y2K bug of data privacy – the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), tough rules that require companies to be more transparent about the information they collect on individuals and how it is used.
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Brain Change and #DigitalTransformation | @ThingsExpo #IoT #API #AI #DX #SmartCities
The renowned military strategist John Boyd taught that people and institutions collect favorite philosophies, strategies, theories and ideologies over a period of time, and then try to align the future to fit them. The problem with this is the future is rarely like the past, and trying to fit new data into old paradigms often forces us to perform irrational mental gymnastics, which leaves us farther from the truth.
[slides] Enterprise #DevOps Journey | @DevOpsSummit @Amdocs #AI #DX #Microservices
When you focus on a journey from up-close, you look at your own technical and cultural history and how you changed it for the benefit of the customer. This was our starting point: too many integration issues, 13 SWP days and very long cycles. It was evident that in this fast-paced industry we could no longer afford this reality. We needed something that would take us beyond reducing the development lifecycles, CI and Agile methodologies. We made a fundamental difference, even changed our culture.
NextGen Buys EagleDream Health
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a part of Quality Systems, has paid $26 million to buy EagleDream Health. This deal is likely to close by the end of this month.
NextGen is a company that specializes in providing the foundation for any organization that wants to promote healthy living and way of life among different communities. Headquartered in Horsham Pennsylvania, this company’s products are geared towards user management of healthcare records, Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) and Electronic Practice Management (EPM).
Some of its products include:
- Ambulatory EHR
- Inpatient Clinicals
- Health Quality Measure
- Patient Portal
- EDI Services
- Data Protection
- Revenue Cycle Management
To boost these products, NextGen has accquired EagleDream Health, as the latter focuses on cloud-based analytics for the healthcare industry. In a big way, the products of both these companies are complementary, so it makes sense for them to come under the same unit.
In fact, EagleDream Health takes clinical, financial and administrative data and comes up with an optimal practice performance that enhances productivity and performance of client organizations. It’s intuitive and user-friendly platform converts data from disparate sources into actionable information that can help an organization to understand its current position. Such deep insights can help with decision-making and add value to an organization.
This deal is expected to give a big boost for NextGen because the entire healthcare industry is moving away from a fee-based model to a value-based one, so any service that provides more value will be able to surge ahead of competition. And that’s exactly what NextGen is aiming to do with this acquisition.
This company has clear vision and objectives and it is moving well in the right direction. Earlier this year, it acquired another company called Entrada to increase the value offerings it can provide to its clients. This acquisition of EagleDream Health is another important milestone on this direction.
From EagleDream Health’s perspective too, this deal is a good one because it gets access to a wider customer base and possibly even a greater revenue. Since both these companies operate in the same sphere, it makes sense to align the products of all these companies together.
Such acquisitions reflect the changing landscape of the healthcare industry and in some ways the tech industry too, as value is taking center stage over other aspects.
For the healthcare industry, this is a good move because it has the potential to reduce the per-capita cost of healthcare and also improve the overall work-life balance for all employees in the healthcare industry including clinicians.
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Meet the Parallels Desktop Support Team!
The well-established customer support team at Parallels provides a marvelous service to our users globally. Excellent customer service means going beyond what’s expected to delight every customer. Meet the Amazing Parallels Desktop® for Mac Support Team: Since the beginning of 2017, Parallels support team has achieved many milestones when it comes to finding a solution […]
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[slides] #IoT and Security | @ThingsExpo #IIoT #AI #ML #DX #DigitalTransformation
In the enterprise today, connected IoT devices are everywhere – both inside and outside corporate environments. The need to identify, manage, control and secure a quickly growing web of connections and outside devices is making the already challenging task of security even more important, and onerous. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Rich Boyer, CISO and Chief Architect for Security at NTT i3, discussed new ways of thinking and the approaches needed to address the emerging challenges of security in the enterprise. With a focus on the challenges and specific technical solutions possible using distributed trust, mutability, autonomy, and disposability, he showed how a single cohesive security management infrastructure can be created for the enterprise while still allowing the distributed value of IoT to exist anywhere.
[slides] Accelerate Test Automation | @DevOpsSummit #CloudNative #AI ML #DevOps #Serverless
“Why didn’t testing catch this” must become “How did this make it to testing?” Traditional quality teams are the crutch and excuse keeping organizations from making the necessary investment in people, process, and technology to accelerate test automation. Just like societies that did not build waterways because the labor to keep carrying the water was so cheap, we have created disincentives to automate.
In her session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Anne Hungate, President of Daring Systems, discussed how to break the cycle of manual testing as de-facto – empowering development and quality to lead with automation. Learn about the changes in reporting, behaviors, and communication necessary to make automation the first choice.
Announcing @App2Cloud_USA to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | #Docker #Containers #CloudNative
SYS-CON Events announced today that App2Cloud will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct. 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
App2Cloud is an online Platform, specializing in migrating legacy applications to any Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
[slides] How Is Deep Learning Used in Trading | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #FinTech #BigData
Deep learning has been very successful in social sciences and specially areas where there is a lot of data. Trading is another field that can be viewed as social science with a lot of data. With the advent of Deep Learning and Big Data technologies for efficient computation, we are finally able to use the same methods in investment management as we would in face recognition or in making chat-bots. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Gaurav Chakravorty, co-founder and Head of Strategy Development at qplum, discussed the transformational impact of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in making trading a scientific process. This focus on learning a hierarchical set of concepts is truly making investing a scientific process, a utility.
[slides] #IoT for #DigitalTransformation | @ThingsExpo @Ocean9Inc #BigData
IoT is at the core or many Digital Transformation initiatives with the goal of re-inventing a company’s business model. We all agree that collecting relevant IoT data will result in massive amounts of data needing to be stored. However, with the rapid development of IoT devices and ongoing business model transformation, we are not able to predict the volume and growth of IoT data. And with the lack of IoT history, traditional methods of IT and infrastructure planning based on the past do not apply either.