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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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Startups at CES showed how tech can help elderly people and their caregivers

TechCrunch

It presented nine companies at the virtual show. Mighty Health is an app that pairs users with health coaches, certified trainers and personalized nutrition plans, while Zibrio , a scale that assesses users’ balance to predict if they are at risk for a fall, can also be incorporated into at-home routines.

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

TechCrunch

AARP Innovation Labs, the incubator program, highlights the many facets of aging in its CES’ virtual presentation with a roster of startups that were divided into five groups: community, clinic, wellness, financial services and housing. It connects users with a health coach and features nutrition and workout plans created for older adults.

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Digital Therapeutics: How Software Can Treat Diseases

Altexsoft

In many cases, digital medicine deals with pharmaceuticals combining prescription medications and ingestible sensors. It also incorporates training, personalized health coaching, and ongoing support of certified diabetes care specialists. Digital therapy platform for heart failure medication monitoring. Source: gameChange.

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Highlights from AWS CEO Adam Selipsky’s Keynote at re:Invent

Perficient

Selipsky welcomed 50,000 in-person attendees and 300,000 virtual attendees from around the globe. Financial services and pharmaceuticals, researchers and retailers, freight carriers, phone carriers, NGOs, energy firms, entertainment studios, the list goes on and on.”. Entrepreneurs bring their dreams to the cloud and change the future.

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Digital Therapeutics: Swallowing the “Digital” Pill

Mentormate

Customization allowed genomics, pharmaceuticals , and the power of our own immune systems to cooperate and deliver treatments that were most effective for our unique biologies. These coaches can reinforce our education by educating ourselves through various content mediums, all delivered through digital apps. InMotion VR.

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 1

Accenture

We made nine site visits in three countries, four US States, and one virtual visit. Experienced Agile coaches and consultants have regularly observed that the greatest impediment to transforming organizations is transforming the mindsets of its members. But I tell you what I will do, I will send you the Agile coach who helped me.”

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