Category: IT
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Is there an AI bubble?
There has been much talk lately about artificial intelligence being in a bubble on par with the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. Skeptics will point to Nvidia’s 62 per cent sales rise last month as evidence that no such bubble exists, and Nvidia’s shares rose 6.5 per cent in after-hours trading on Wednesday. But…
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IT, HIPAA, and the Medical Sole Practitioner
It is rare today to encounter a physician working as a sole practitioner. Between dealing with insurance companies, reimbursement rates, hospital privileges, and myriad regulatory requirements, the sole practitioner, we could say, is a critically endangered species. And yet last week I had a conversation with such a doctor working as a sole practitoner. He…
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I Hate Email!
Background The other day I posted about 1980s technology. Today I am going to expand a bit on that to give you an idea where things were and where things stand now. The technology in question is email (or, as we used to write it, “e-mail”). Email had been around since the 1970s, but really…