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Virtual Reality – The Next Frontier in Health Care

May 21st, 2022 |
Virtual Reality – The Next Frontier in Health Care

What do mitigating pain, overcoming phobias, changing harmful behaviors and calming anxiety have in common? They’re all addressed through virtual reality. In this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, we speak with Dr. Walter Greenleaf, a behavioral neuroscientist [See the full post…]

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The Social and Emotional Tax of Sleep Loss

April 15th, 2022 |
The Social and Emotional Tax of Sleep Loss

When we talk about sleep and health, our conversations usually focus on the physical impact of sleep loss. Far less discussed, but just as important, are the social and emotional changes taking place when we don’t get the sleep we [See the full post…]

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The Maternal and Infant Mortality Crisis

April 1st, 2022 |
The Maternal and Infant Mortality Crisis

A recent report from the National Center for Health Statistics provided unwelcome news – during the first year of the pandemic the number of deaths among pregnant women and new mothers rose 14%, with Black women most affected. Why does [See the full post…]

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How Hybrid Cloud Helps Healthcare IT

March 30th, 2022 |
How Hybrid Cloud Helps Healthcare IT

U.S. healthcare expenditures are expected to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028. Still, many CIOs can’t shift their healthcare IT systems fast enough to modern technologies that are proving to benefit providers and patients, according to Geoffrey Bakeman, vice president of [See the full post…]

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Living With COVID in 2022 – Considerations for Now and the Future

March 25th, 2022 |
Living With COVID in 2022 – Considerations for Now and the Future

Although the U.S. is in a more positive phase of the pandemic than two years ago, many are wondering how long it might last (especially in light of surges abroad) and how we should best prepare for the future. In [See the full post…]

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Subscription Businesses Grow During Pandemic

March 16th, 2022 |
Subscription Businesses Grow During Pandemic

The pace of innovation and change has affected not only technology development but the business models that make those technologies available. The subscription model – which has been around since 17th century Britain when it was used to sell books [See the full post…]

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Security Isn’t Something to Set and Forget

March 4th, 2022 |
Security Isn’t Something to Set and Forget

In this podcast, David Hake, UC Berkeley lecturer and co-founder of Resilience Insurance, talks about the rise and spread of cyberthreats facing governments, enterprises and individuals.

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Are Psychedelics the Next Big Breakthrough in Mental Health Treatment?

February 25th, 2022 |
Are Psychedelics the Next Big Breakthrough in Mental Health Treatment?

While once deemed to have no medical value, there’s currently a race underway to study and gain FDA approval for the use of psychedelics as a mental health treatment. In this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, we [See the full post…]

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Explore the Tiny Universe Researchers See in Topsoil

February 23rd, 2022 |
Explore the Tiny Universe Researchers See in Topsoil

The world’s farmland is in crisis. The earth is not creating enough new fertile soil to mitigate what our agricultural activity is losing. According to the U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization, the world’s topsoil could be depleted by 2080.   [See the full post…]

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Combatting Climate Change as a Prescription for Health and Equity

February 4th, 2022 |
Combatting Climate Change as a Prescription for Health and Equity

Climate change touches everything important to us, according to Dr. Renee Salas, and that includes our health and well-being. And perhaps there’s no clearer example of how we’re all bound together by the effects of climate change than the 2021 [See the full post…]

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Race to Hybrid Multicloud Forging IT Industry Partnerships

February 1st, 2022 |
Race to Hybrid Multicloud Forging IT Industry Partnerships

Interoperability across owned and rented IT systems is essential and a major challenge for IT departments evolving their hybrid multicloud operations. As more IT leaders ask for tighter integration between Red Hat OpenShift and Nutanix software, the two companies joined [See the full post…]

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How to Fall in Love with Backup: Get Hit by Ransomware

January 24th, 2022 |
How to Fall in Love with Backup: Get Hit by Ransomware

Rick Vanover handles product strategy at VEEAM, a backup and replication services firm. In this segment, learn about the service most companies hope they’ll never need. But Vanover says a good backup service is the best thing ever after [See the full post…]

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Lowering CO2 Emissions Is a Daunting Task and the Finance Sector Must Lead the Way

January 18th, 2022 |
Lowering CO2 Emissions Is a Daunting Task and the Finance Sector Must Lead the Way

There are many parts of the solution to climate change from scientific research to each person’s daily lifestyle choices. Perhaps the most critical piece is getting the world’s industries to make carbon neutral or negative products, and to cut emissions [See the full post…]

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Cyber Threats Are Becoming More Sophisticated, So Should You

January 18th, 2022 |
Cyber Threats Are Becoming More Sophisticated, So Should You

Cybercrime has become a sophisticated enterprise. Hacking tools built on the latest technologies such as AI or hybrid cloud are available on the black market, where stolen data is also bought and sold. And digital tools used in cinema have [See the full post…]

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How to Think About the Nursing Shortage for Patients and Policymakers

January 18th, 2022 |
How to Think About the Nursing Shortage for Patients and Policymakers

There was a shortage of health care workers before COVID. Now that the dwindling labor pool is a top news headline, the realization has set in – which medical professionals were trying to communicate from the beginning of the pandemic [See the full post…]

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Building Secure Apps for Government Defense

December 1st, 2021 |
Building Secure Apps for Government Defense

BAE Systems contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense. It’s in the difficult business of handling military and intelligence secrets. And while there is a lot the company can’t talk about, there are plenty of useful insights they can share, [See the full post…]

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Centering our Conversation about Quality Through a Health Equity Lens

November 25th, 2021 |
Centering our Conversation about Quality Through a Health Equity Lens

Over 20 years ago the Institute of Medicine included “equitable” as one of six domains of quality, but when we talk about equity and quality today, we don’t often discuss them in tandem. To reach health improvement goals, that must [See the full post…]

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Tech’s Slow, Intertwining Disruption of Healthcare

November 25th, 2021 |
Tech’s Slow, Intertwining Disruption of Healthcare

Medicine has eluded the tech disruptions which seemingly overnight rewrote business models in media, telecommunications, transportation and other industries. That doesn’t mean healthcare is untouched by technology. Hospitals are keen on innovations for diagnosis and medical procedures such as AI [See the full post…]

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Building the Future of Government Defense with Hybrid Multicloud IT

November 15th, 2021 |
Building the Future of Government Defense with Hybrid Multicloud IT

One of the world’s biggest defense contractors, BAE Systems, has to navigate the world of cloud computing just like everyone else. But the stakes are much higher. The company not only provides weapons systems to the U.S. military but [See the full post…]

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How to Make Work and Family Work: An Economist Weighs In

November 5th, 2021 |
How to Make Work and Family Work: An Economist Weighs In

Parenting is a deeply personal journey with profound professional implications. And never has it been more important for employers to acknowledge and adopt strategies to help employees and their families navigate pregnancy, the baby years, and beyond. In this episode [See the full post…]

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Equality, Inclusion and Belonging for LGBTQ Employees: Insights from Accenture

October 8th, 2021 |
Equality, Inclusion and Belonging for LGBTQ Employees: Insights from Accenture

How can workplaces create equality, inclusion and belonging for LGBTQ+ employees? That’s the topic of this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, in which we speak with Beck Bailey, Managing Director of Inclusion & Diversity at Accenture. A [See the full post…]

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Cloud Technologies Speeding Organ Transplant System

September 24th, 2021 |
Cloud Technologies Speeding Organ Transplant System

If a child, family member or friend was in an accident tomorrow or had an organ failure, there’s a good chance United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) can help find a donor with the necessary attributes. Donated organs are managed [See the full post…]

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Moving Forward with Empathy: Messaging to the Unvaccinated

August 20th, 2021 |
Moving Forward with Empathy: Messaging to the Unvaccinated

For decades, the Ad Council has brought together the advertising industry to serve the social good through public service engagement; today, they’re providing critical information to Americans across the country about the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on building [See the full post…]

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The Verdict is In: The Pandemic Has Accelerated the Future

July 30th, 2021 |
The Verdict is In: The Pandemic Has Accelerated the Future

In July 2020, we spoke with Professor Mauro Guillén, author of 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything, on the global factors influencing the next decade and the role of COVID-19 as an accelerant [See the full post…]

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Restaurants Order More Tech to Survive COVID-19 Pandemic

July 27th, 2021 |
Restaurants Order More Tech to Survive COVID-19 Pandemic

Restaurant owners and experts explain how the industry responded to the COVID-19 lockdown with technologies that keep them connected to customers. Two sisters, Shanny Covey and Deborah Mok, tell how they evolved their central California coast restaurants through the pandemic. [See the full post…]

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