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Without further ado,
here is your daily industry news briefing
for today, March 4th.
First, some CIOs are struggling to keep pace
with a huge explosion in outside vendors.
That has con coincided with the hype over ai,
the Wall Street Journal reported March 4th.
Besides ai, CIOs are also sifting through a growing number
of digital tools and are also looking for smaller vendors
so they don't rely so heavily on a handful of big companies.
Gartner IT researcher, Steven White told the newspaper
Carhartt, CIO Katrina, August told the journal quote,
you just can't keep pace.
The Workwear company software
as a service subscriptions are up to 121
and 2024 compared to 59 5 years ago
and 20 a decade ago, some organizations have been able
to shift the other way.
Pharma Company, Moderna stated, working with a bunch
of software firms as it raced to get out
of a vaccine amid a pandemic.
According to the story, Moderna, CIO, Brad Miller,
to the news outlet quote, A lot
of times my business partners were running crazy fast
because they needed something, so they just went
and signed licenses
and there wasn't really a tech review end quote.
But since spending more time analyzing costs
and value, Moderna has decreased its ven vendors from 257
last year to 200 this year.
The newspaper reported second
Larry Ellison's cancer focused software startup Project.
Ronan is shutting down. The register reported March 1st.
The company is set to undergo a permanent mass layoff due
to its closure, resulting in the termination of as many
as 150 employees.
The news outlet reported
that Project Ronan received initial funding from Mr.
E Mr. Ellison,
but faced challenges in attracting paying customers
and eventually ran out of funds to sustain its operations.
The startup founded in 2018 had an objective
to enhanced cancer care by aiding physicians
and patients in making more informed decisions
regarding treatment.
Mr. Ellison is currently the chief technology officer
of Oracle, a company he co-founded.
Third, Amazon is training an AI chatbot
to handle incoming patient messages
and address administrative curries.
For one medical former employees told the Washington Post.
When asked about this,
the company refrain from confirming specific details about
its AI initiatives.
For one, medical for the post is February 28th. Story.
- However, Amazon emphasized its continuous investment in
technology aimed at reducing healthcare providers time spent
on administrative task.
This comes as former employees also told the news outlet
that Amazon, in response to the surge in telehealth,
patients initiated the rerouting of inbound messages
through a central call center known as mission control.
But due to the recent reduction of some front desk roles
during the Amazon layoffs,
mission Control experienced an initial influx
of additional calls as indicated an employee Slack messages
were viewed by the Post One Medical,
told the news outlet mission control wasn't overwhelmed
and that the new system is improving response time.
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