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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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AARP Innovation Labs takes a holistic approach to age-tech at CES

TechCrunch

When young (or youngish) people think of age-tech, they may picture mostly clinical solutions—telemedicine platforms, for instance. It connects users with a health coach and features nutrition and workout plans created for older adults. Growing older, however, doesn’t just have a physical component.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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Ensuring the Safety and Efficacy of Clinical Trials

Perficient

CLIENT An American multinational corporation that develops medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods. In early 2021, our Life Sciences experts presented a Clinical Data Review Platform (CDRP) that demonstrated our strong industry perspective and expertise.

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Digital Therapeutics: How Software Can Treat Diseases

Altexsoft

The new page has recently been turned by the innovative tech solutions that come under the name of digital therapeutics (DTx). This article is going to explain what digital therapeutics are, how these products are different from other digital health technologies, when to use them, and why you should care about the topic in the first place.

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Remojo is building tools to combat digital addiction, starting with porn

TechCrunch

But while the early wave of tech businesses mostly aimed to provide (easier) access to pharmaceuticals for treating health issues like erectile dysfunction (e.g. If the tech really works that would imply major user churn every three months. Hence ‘ Re’ mojo.). Paired pulls in $3.6M

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The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This is the gold standard in scientific measurement used in clinical trials for medical research, biological studies, pharmaceutical trials, and now to test business ideas. Moreover, the companies represented are all relatively young and either in the tech sector or leverage technology as a medium for their business.