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The Ethical Complications Of Electronic Pills

The Horizons Tracker

The growth in electronic medicines offers significant potential to better monitor the effectiveness of treatments, but new research from the University of Copenhagen also highlights the ethical and legal complications the technology brings. New capabilities. There are also issues surrounding the ownership of the patient’s data.

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Who Should Watch Over AI?

The Horizons Tracker

As AI has become more potent, there have been understandable concerns about how the technology can be policed so that it works for the benefit of all society rather than certain sections of it. A new paper from Lancaster University explores how AI can be effectively policed, and indeed who should do the policing. Trusting AI.

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Why AI Can Revolutionise Healthcare Possibilities

Strategy Driven

AI and machine learning are technologies which come with many promises. They are still advancing but, with the rate of development seen in recent years of numerous technologies in various industries, what it could look like in the very near future is potentially more impressive than we could imagine now. The promises are wide-reaching.

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New Insulin Price Cap Could End Up Saving Payers Money in the Long Run

HR Digest

By Mark Campbell, Senior Vice President of Clinical Solutions at RxBenefits , the employee benefits industry’s first technology-enabled pharmacy benefits optimizer (PBO) Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions. Some pharmaceutical companies said they fear government-set drug prices will ultimately reduce patients’ access to new therapies.

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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

Upwardly-mobile CEOs – who had been able to move up through the class system, largely as a result of strong educational attainment, which was higher than not only their parents but also the average CEO. Middle-class CEOs – these are those from more average family backgrounds in terms of both household income and education level.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. When does pharmaceutical pricing become price gouging? Yet we rely equally on social infrastructure. When does cost saving become worker exploitation?

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No Jab, No Job: Major companies take a hard line on mandated vaccinations

HR Digest

Ascension Health: The non-profit health systems company is requiring all of its associated to get the Covid-19 jab, regardless of whether they work on-site or remotely, by Nov. Cardinal Health: The global pharmaceutical distributor and medical products supplier sent a memo to U.S. Pfizer: The pharmaceutical giant’s U.S.

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