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Gamification: Effective Means of Event Management

Mummification, along with live video features and chatbots are one of the most talked about event trends today. Even though the term gamification is spread like wildfire throughout the event industry, there is still confusion about what gamification is and how it can enhance an in-person event.

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Enterprises are moving towards digital trends that are relevant to their business requirements. According to a survey, 85 percent of the enterprise leaders feel that they have just two years to make advancements in terms of digital innovations. 

According to a study, almost half of the organizations’ revenue will be influenced by digital trends by 2020. Here are some of the enterprise technology trends in the coming years.

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The (E-) Doctor Is In: What Trends to Spot in Healthcare Technology Today

“Disruptive technologies” are the trending watchwords du jour, a catchphrase that encapsulates the displacement of existing market models with change, innovation and upheaval, and this phenomenon is as relevant as ever right now in the field of healthcare and medicine.

Earlier in the year, three behemoth corporate players, who are not traditionally associated with Healthcare— Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase— forged a partnership to leverage state-of-the-art healthcare technology to provide to their employees “simplified, high-quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost.”

So what is in the cards for the ever-evolving face of healthcare technology today?

Artificial Intelligence

AI has transformed the way healthcare providers render their services and how patients experience their level of care, in areas such as clinical diagnostic accuracy, acute care rehabilitation, predictive disease analysis, hospital operations, and population health.

It is an area that is teeming with possibilities for growth: by 2035, workplace productivity is projected to spike by as much as 35 percent and surpass the $6 billion mark as AI continues to play an integral part in alleviating physician shortage and patient congestion, as well as adopting more optimal and precise treatment plans.

As patients increasingly want more control over personal healthcare decisions, AI, Deep Learning and digital image content analysis can be tapped to analyze and anticipate disease, devise optimal care approaches and design methodologies of diagnosis and treatment of medical malaise. Pathology and Radiology specialties are in the early stages of AI transformation.

Augmented Reality

Immersive technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) can be a huge opportunity for advanced visualization for healthcare providers and their patients, with a projected market share of $90 billion by 2020.

 For example, images from a real-world environment such as the OR can be embedded with computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, and graphics, enabling surgeons to navigate their way around minimally invasive procedures or to develop 3D reconstructions of tumors without resorting to radiation exposure. Virtual apps have also been used to educate patients on the use of AEDs or defibrillators.

Wearables, IoT and Mobile Health Apps

The growing business of preventative care in the form of wearables—whether as part of corporate wellness programs or individual health and fitness markets—is expected to rise to $12.1 billion by 2021.

Remote health monitoring via wearables and mobile health apps could lead to a notable decrease in hospitalizations and ensure that those who need urgent care will have access to it more readily and with greater ease. For instance, the digital contact lens can be worn by diabetics to measure and maintain their blood sugar levels.

The advantages of wearables are diverse: they have user-friendly interfaces and boast of connectivity features such as wireless data transmission, real-time feedback, and alerting mechanisms, granting patients secured access to their health records and providing quicker diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as arrhythmia, asthma, and COPD.

Telemedicine

Although the words telemedicine and telehealth are likely to become obsolete within five years, the use of the latest technology advancements to provide healthcare to patients will become commonplace globally.

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Engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts

Since the first airplane took flight over 100 years ago, virtually every aircraft in the sky has flown with the help of moving parts such as propellers, turbine blades, and fans, which are powered by the combustion of fossil fuels or by battery packs that produce a persistent, whining buzz.

Now MIT engineers have built and flown the first-ever plane with no moving parts. Instead of propellers or turbines, the light aircraft is powered by an “ionic wind” – a silent but mighty flow of ions that is produced aboard the plane, and that generates enough thrust to propel the plane over a sustained, steady flight.

Unlike turbine-powered planes, the aircraft does not depend on fossil fuels to fly. And unlike propeller-driven drones, the new design is completely silent.

“This is the first-ever sustained flight of a plane with no moving parts in the propulsion system,” says Steven Barrett, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “This has potentially opened new and unexplored possibilities for aircraft which are quieter, mechanically simpler, and do not emit combustion emissions.”

He expects that in the near-term, such ion wind propulsion systems could be used to fly less noisy drones. Further out, he envisions ion propulsion paired with more conventional combustion systems to create more fuel-efficient, hybrid passenger planes and other large aircraft.

Barrett and his team at MIT have published their results in the journal Nature.

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Payroll Software: Improved Decision Making for HR

It’s the last week of the month, the time that every employee awaits his/her paycheque. Unfortunately, some of the employees also dread that there might be a calculation mistake, which means that the employer has to go through a chain of daunting procedures to get it right. In a small scale business, employees can only hope that it doesn’t happen since error rate is scarily high during the manual processing of payroll. Read More

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Trends that are going to change the HR industry

Suitable candidates are considered as the assets for organizations. The hardships lead to be more strategic for the HR (human resource) team of organizations because HRs’ role is to recruit not only an employee but also understand if the employee can serve as an asset for the very organization and recruit accordingly.

Nowadays technologies have made HR industry evolving to become more efficient, profitable, and enjoyable for employees. This industry is converting into more productive one with the help of advanced technologies.

Following are some of the trends, which are transforming the industry:

Artificial intelligence (AI): Talent acquisition is one of the important responsibilities of HR departments, but even they cannot be entirely sure about the hiring. Artificial Intelligence technology streamlines this hiring process by relying more on the analytical process instead of by human observations. Also, AI helps in listing relevant interview questions according to the post, employee’s background.

Robotics Quotient: The HR department has many transactional activities that are ideally suited for robotic process automation (RPA). RPA enables HRs to automate tasks that are rule-based, repetitive, and standardized and results in free-minded HRs who can focus on more strategic and innovative functions as talent development, retention, and policy implementation.

Predictive analysis: HRs deal with large quantities of people data. With the help of predictive analytics, HRs need not rely on gut feeling or soft science; they can rely on proven and data-driven predictive models. Predictive analysis enables HRs to forecast the impact of people policies on the well-being and bottom-line performance of the employees.  

Cloud: Cloud applications play a significant role in the HR industry. Functions of organizations need fast and flexible IT frameworks. Cloud is redefining the frameworks and process of working of the organizations. The competitions in organizations on recruiting processes increase data of a number of candidates and push the organizations to move the information to the cloud. Moving data to the cloud makes HRs’ functions more efficient as it lowers the manual works of HRs.

By the advancement of technology, HRs are playing a leadership role in the growth of organizations. As HRs are adopting the change with the help of technologies, the organizations will become smarter and more productive.

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