July/Aug 2019

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Understanding smart technology – and ourselves

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Part 4: The Known Knowns of Smart Automation: Man and Machine

The interaction between man and machine is the next stop on our journey toward a better understanding of what we know about smart technology. Most see robots as distinctly separate and increasingly intelligent beings with whom we either compete or cooperate. In this scenario, one known factor is that humans are biological, organic, living creatures with emotions – traits that nonliving robots cannot have.

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ReCAP

Name: Kathryn Walter
Employer: ORTEC
Job Title: Analytics & Optimization Consultant

Name: Ben Harlander
Employer: Principal Financial Group
Job Title: Data and Operations Research Scientist

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Inside Story

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Reality Check and Checkup for the Healthcare Industry

The healthcare industry, specifically healthcare analytics, has long been a topic of concern (and commentary) for Analytics magazine, and the July/August issue is no exception.

Analyze This!

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Different Career Paths Reach Common Ground

The story of two analysts who met in college and took two very different career paths before uniting 30 years later at a tech conference. At the reunion, their diverse backgrounds taught each one valuable life lessons, inside and outside the world of technology.

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State of the Healthcare Technology Industry: A Mid-year Review

Review of how the healthcare analytics industry did during the first half of the year and what potentially lies ahead. So far 2019 is turning out to be a year when some of the exuberances of the last couple of years has come down to a more moderate level.

Model Building

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Digital Representation & AI

Digital representation and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the way new supply chain applications are built and used. You’ve heard all about AI; here’s what you need to know about digital representation. Together, AI and digital representation are rekindling corporate interest in operations research.

Five-Minute Analyst

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Cycling and Power Curves

A recent trend in the statistics literature considers changes in methodology such as ditching the “p-value,” moving toward explainable models and understanding all the various ways that standard methods – particularly regression – can go wrong. This column shares an application of regression that totally worked.

Conference Preview

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2019 INFORMS Healthcare Conference

The 2019 INFORMS Healthcare Conference co-hosted by the MIT Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts General Hospital will be held July 27-29 in the Boston area.

Healthcare Analytics

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Year-end review reveals many positive developments around the globe in healthcare industry

In the last few articles I tried to put the spotlight on new developments in healthcare around the world. As we are getting closer to the end of 2019, I am energized to see positive movements in the healthcare analytics and health information technology space continuing worldwide. Let’s look at what is happening at home first.

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Part 6: The Unknown Knowns of Smart Automation: The Machine Mind

Our next stop in the examination of smart technology explores the issues on the edge with respect to the machine and man’s relation to machine.

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