Sharon Moran
Sharon is a former Senior Functional Analyst at a major global consulting firm. She now focuses on the data pre-processing stage of the machine learning pipeline for LLMs. She also has prior experience as a machine learning engineer customizing OCR models for a learning platform in the EdTech space.
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Elevance Health is a health insurance provider headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was founded 20 years ago as a merger between Anthem and Wellpoint Health Networks. The company offers medical, dental, pharmaceutical, behavioral health, and long-term care plans.
Technological advancements have contributed to an increase in more efficient and sustainable transportation solutions. Predictions made decades related to autonomous vehicles were wildly optimistic. The automated transportation industry might not align with those early predictions, but there have still been noteworthy developments.
Business processes are defined in large part by the data within an organization. Value-driven data, by definition, represents higher-quality data. The importance of high-quality data cannot be overlooked. Research from MIT, even from before the pandemic AI boom, showed that insufficient data can cost as much as 25% of the revenue for most companies.
As a rule, AI adoption tends to take more time for legacy industries compared to digitally-native sectors. As a profile from June 2021 in Harvard Business Review explains, insurance companies are data-rich but have long relied on actuarial approaches to data and analytics. The insurance industry has several concerns regarding the integration of AI. Insurance companies obviously have regulatory compliance as a top priority, so any AI solution implemented needs to comply with existing regulations regarding consumer protection and data security, among others.
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Whether or not AI will replace humans depends on who you ask. Opinions vary, but part of the difficulty of answering the question has to do with the difficulty of quantifying what even counts as AI from a technology standpoint.
Humana Inc. is the fourth most significant health insurance provider in the U.S. Founded in 1961, Humana is based in Louisville, Kentucky. Humana was ranked 42 on the Fortune 500 list in 2023. Humana employs over 67,000 individuals and is one of the most prominent publicly traded managed care companies in the U.S.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Einride is a Swedish transport company specializing in electric and self-driving vehicles. The company believes climate change is the most crucial challenge facing our world today, and makes that more desirable and ecologically sustainable future possible through developing sustainable transportation solutions.
Sanofi is a global healthcare and pharmaceutical company. Founded in 1973, it aims to unlock and maximize the potential of critical medicines, vaccines, and self-care solutions for individuals. It accomplishes this across four global business units: Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, and Consumer Healthcare.
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Intermountain Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system comprised of 385 clinics and 33 hospitals dedicated to creating healthier communities and helping patients thrive. Intermountain Health merged with SCL Health in 2022 and now employs more than 58,000 people. They serve patients in Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.
AI and data science have seen increased use in life sciences, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry. However, despite the multitude of AI use cases, pharmaceutical companies tend not to embrace every emerging AI trend eagerly.
Companies that use AI copilots experience numerous benefits, including streamlined processes, improved customer experience, and cost savings. Large language models (LLMs) form the basis of many AI copilot applications. While LLMs have a remarkable capacity to generate humanlike text, that same capability is the reason businesses need to exercise caution in order to prevent misapplications of this otherwise transformative technology.
Duke University Health Systems is composed of a world-renowned hospital and healthcare network. Duke University Hospital, one of their three hospitals in North Carolina, is nationally ranked in 14 adult specialties.
Originally founded as Fair, Isaac and Company, FICO is a data analytics company founded in 1956. Based in Bozeman, Montana, the company is focused on credit scoring services, most notably its FICO score, which measures a person's creditworthiness.
Communications surveillance in financial services involves both monitoring and analyzing electronic communications within a financial institution to prevent fraud, ensure regulatory compliance, identify and manage risks resulting from inappropriate activity, and maintain integrity in financial markets.
AI and machine learning have promising potential in the field of healthcare. However, there is one significant hurdle healthcare companies often encounter when trying to implement AI and machine learning. The data architecture of current legacy systems in healthcare settings prevents implementing many use cases and limits a company’s ability to benefit from these technologies fully.
Due to technological advancements, automakers are uniquely positioned to benefit from an industry-wide transformation. Technology now allows a direct connection between car manufacturers and the customers who purchase those cars. Such a relationship has never before been possible in the history of the automotive industry.
Founded in 1833 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, since 2019, McKesson is a leading distributor of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. They also provide health information technology and care management tools.
Founded in 1982, Cigna is a healthcare and insurance company based in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Cigna is a Fortune 15 global company and employs over 70,000 individuals. Cigna offers health, life, and accident insurance. They also offer Medicare and Medicaid products.
Morgan Stanley was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in New York City. They are an American multinational investment bank and financial services company recognized as a leader in wealth management. With over $1.19 billion in assets, Morgan Stanley is among the top 15 biggest banks in the world.
The healthcare industry has experienced several changes in recent decades. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), signed into law in 1996, represents one such change. HIPAA was initially intended to simplify how healthcare is administered. However, the law also contributed to the increased administrative burden for healthcare practitioners.
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While accounting as a discipline has roots going back to the 13th century, current-day accounting software is still based on manual record-keeping just as it was in the 1990s, only with digital checks in a digital checkbook register, allowing users to keep track of their finances on a computer.
As AI becomes increasingly interwoven in the fabric of our everyday lives, the insurance sector is finding new business challenges and opportunities in all of the ways these emerging technologies bring increased risk - and security - to our lives.
Market surveillance refers to activity authorities conduct to ensure that products available to consumers adhere to applicable laws and regulations. Additionally, market surveillance in banking and finance takes a somewhat specific form.
Knowledge graphs have grown into a major trend in life sciences since the term was introduced by Google in 2012. However, despite this recent uptick in use, they significantly impact the space. Knowledge graphs enable several critical functions within life sciences, including drug development, literature review, and regulatory reporting.
The manufacturing industry has changed in recent years. Humans on the shop floor have always used their senses and experience to anticipate machine failure before it occurs. Now, AI can be used in conjunction with human expertise.