The concept of an electronic health record has existed for decades, the technology is ready, the need is clear, the desire is there, yet despite all this there are very few success stories. A nationwide electronic health record remains an elusive goal that few countries have achieved.
Now everything has changed, in 2021 the world is a very different place to what we imagined a year ago. Peoples’ attitudes have changed, our use of technology has changed, and the need for a united healthcare system has changed. The barriers that have held back the success of an electronic health record have begun to lift.
In the news recently was Southern Cross’ launch of their CareHQ app, which enables New Zealanders to immediately see a GP for a telehealth consultation, using their mobile device. …
Be afraid, 5G has been proven to cause red necks, spontaneous mullet growth, a serious drop in IQ and a sudden fondness for country and western music. Be very afraid.
Let’s cut to the chase on this one, 5G does not cause Coronavirus or COVID-19. It does however cause some people to act very stupidly, and that’s got nothing to do with microwave frequencies altering our DNA sequences.
Yes, 5G has been shown without a doubt to cause negative behavioral changes in susceptible parts of the general population. (Yes, I wrote that in the full knowledge that someone will quote it, and that just proves my point). So, grab your pitchforks, light your torches, and ring the town bell, because 5G is messing with your heads.
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Faster mobile. Deadly radiation? Population mind control? Disruption of weather satellites? There’s a lot of noise and confusion about what 5G will mean, so let’s clear it up.
This article is part one of two, it will focus on what 5G is and does and will be based on fact, part two covers the far more interesting conspiracy theories, health risks, and doomsday predictions that are associated with 5G.
What is 5G?
First, the G stands for Generation, 5G being the fifth generation of mobile network. What do I mean by a generation? Well it’s just like different iPhone models, with each new…
The holy grail of AI, the pinnacle of human achievement, the ultimate weapon, our future master, and the end of the world as we know it. Is that plain enough?
Don’t Panic… yet.
In the words of Douglas Adams, Don’t Panic. Siri, Cortana, Alexa and Google Assistant are not plotting to take over the human race. Let’s be really clear on one thing, although there are examples of AI everywhere we look, Artificial General Intelligence hasn’t been invented yet, and is probably several decades away.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Let’s have a quick refresher. AI is just software, it’s just an application written to do a task…
Chatbots have the potential to dramatically improve customer service, reduce the cost to serve, and provide vast amounts of detail about customer interactions. They are one of the hottest new technologies in improving the customer experience. But as with all technology, a bad implementation will result in a bad experience. In this article, I’ll discuss the keys to successfully using chatbots to improve, not destroy, your customers’ experience.
Quantum computers are one of the trickiest but most colorful things to try and explain in the entire technology sector. What other technology is explained by talking about zombie cats that aren’t dead or alive until you look at them, spooky action at a distance, quantum-mechanical phenomena, superposition, and teleportation?
“We know from history that we just don’t have the imagination to anticipate where new information technologies can carry us.”
John Preskell, Professor of Theoretical Physics
Introduction
Let me start by stating that explaining today what quantum computing can be used for would be like explaining what electricity could be used…
In the good old days viruses were almost friendly, they very rarely did that much harm, were easy to get rid of, and were typically written by bored geeks with no social lives. Today it’s a very different story, viruses have become a multi-million dollar industry, and they are doing very real harm, not just to our computer systems but as with the WannaCry virus, they can threaten human lives.
I’m a Kiwi, and in New Zealand we have lot to be proud of, first to climb Mt Everest, first to split the atom, first to win the America’s Cup…
The robots are coming! Be warned, they will automate our jobs, and they will take work away from us.
But wait, if the office of the future is full of robots doing our jobs, who will feed Santa Paws the office dog? Will Friday night drinks still be fun, will the robots still break into the boss’ liquor cabinet? Will they finally be able to do the tasks that have always been beyond human intellect, such as unjamming the photocopier and cleaning the office microwave after heating a bowl of unfeasibly pungent tuna?
Robotic Process Automation is the latest disruptive technology that is hyped to change the way we work. When they hear robotic automation most people will picture…
Need to explain Neural Networks to your 5 year old? Or to anyone that doesn't have a data science degree? Here’s the explanation you are looking for.
If you Google ‘neural networks’ you’ll find millions of articles explaining how Naive Bayesian regression is used to drive reverse propagation across hidden layers of artificial neurons, with cool pictures of lots of circles connected to lots of other circles. Unfortunately, very few of those articles explain neural networks in plain English, hopefully this becomes one that does.
What is a Neural Network?
It’s software, let’s be clear on that, it’s just an application. Sorry to disappoint you but it’s not a physical network of brains floating in slimy green liquid, or an army of cognitively connected robots, it’s just an application. In fact, it’s often just part of another application, such as Snapchat.
A neural network is just a particular type of application that is very good at taking a bunch of data and giving you an answer to a question. There are dozens of examples of where neural networks are used in applications, such as:
- Spotting fraudulent financial transactions
- Detecting faces…
What is the optimal business process for delivering a disruptive product that has never been made before? That question is like asking Ikea to write assembly instructions for an item of furniture that hasn’t yet been invented.
In the past when the world was simple, when phones just made phone calls, when business models lasted for decades not days, when offering to digitally disrupt someone was a lewd act, the life of an organization designer was easy. Almost every business on the planet could be described by the steps needed to produce the product. Want to make a car? Here’s the material, machinery, people and processes you need, its written down, its been tested, proven and documented hundreds of times over.
Now we live in a world where we are delivering services that were invented weeks, if not days ago. There’s no proven business model, no defined processes, no organizational structure blueprint to start from. You could say we have no idea how to deliver the outcome, the only thing we do know is what we want the outcome to be.
How do you build and run an organization to deliver an outcome when you have no…
