Achieve Success With AI

Providers have volumes of data in electronic health records, but struggle with how to bring that information to bear to improve patient care. Drawing in ever-changing patient information, and knowing what steps to take as a result, is crucial when dealing with conditions like sepsis and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which require careful and timely treatment. Getting real-time decision support in these cases, tailored to individual patients, is what VigiLanz Corp. does. Its enterprise Software as a Service approach is just an example of how providers may be able to call on third parties to layer services on top of existing clinical systems to derive benefits. VigiLanz takes in electronic data in real time from more than 400 hospital clients. It aggregates disparate transactional workflow and documentation data from the hospitals’ EMRs, and then analyzes it in real time. Doing so enables VigiLanz to identify clinical issues and enable organizations to react quickl

Governments transfer money to citizens for many reasons — student scholarships, old age pensions, subsidy for LPG cylinders etc. Such transfers are plagued by the problems of diversion, duplication and falsification, and a large part of the transfers does not reach the genuine beneficiaries. How do we get over these problems? The answer was to ‘identify’ each beneficiary by a ‘unique’ number linked to minimum biometric data. Unique number schemes were not new to the country: the income-tax department has PAN for each assessee and a credit card bears a unique number for the card holder. In 2009, the UPA government decided to introduce Aadhaar.  The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was established by an executive order and Mr Nandan Nilekani was roped in to steer the programme and the Authority. Mr Nilekani brought his tremendous knowledge of technology and proven entrepreneurship to the UIDAI. What might have otherwise turned into another lackadaisical depart

Aadhaar is  an immensely ambitious agenda, but how this agenda is fulfilled, and, in particular, what the consequences are for freedom in the world’s largest democracy, will depend on the fifth pillar of the new Digital India. This pillar is protection of all citizens’ right of privacy.   Here is an interesting analysis of provisions and possible consequences

Technology is a means of control. Human started with tool and gradually grew them into sophisticated system of technology. According to Britannica " By the early 20th century, the term embraced a growing range of means, processes, and ideas in addition to tools and machines. By mid-century, technology was defined by such phrases as “the means or activity by which man seeks to change or manipulate his environment.” Technology, the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human environment . An example:  The bow and arrow were an even more effective combination, the use of which is clearly demonstrated in the earliest “documentary” evidence in the history of technology

According to Wikipedia " Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so, and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistic" In the similar vein " Technology is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of control, particularly the human ability to do so, and a technology is any specific example of such as system. Today technology need to be considered as a new language. The scientific study of technology as a language is called "Tinguistic"