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Why Vaccine Delivery May Need to Lean Heavily on Technology
Recent news around vaccine progress and the prospect of vaccine distribution on the near horizon has the world buzzing. A vaccine will be the most in-demand item everywhere once it becomes available. However, when it comes to market, there will be one significant hurdle standing between the vaccine and people—distributing it at scale. How do …
Arizona courts lean on technology as they transition back to in-person proceedings
These days the majority of cases coming through Pima County courts are being heard via technology, but June marks the first phase of resuming more in-person proceedings. Arizona courts, including the Court of Appeals, are following administrative order 2020-79, which outlines how and when the court can transition back to pre-pandemic operations. Ron Overholt, a …
Local hospitals lean on technology
Jefferson City’s hospitals are leaning on technology to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Even before the threat posed by the current pandemic, hospitals faced significant challenges preventing hospital-acquired infections. Each year, about one in 25 hospital patients nationwide is diagnosed with an infection related to hospital care, according to the Centers for Disease Control …
‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81
Bill Withers, who wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including “ Lean on Me, ” “Lovely Day” and “Ain’t No Sunshine,” has died from heart complications, his family said in a statement to The Associated Press. He was 81. The three-time Grammy Award …
CIOs lean on cloud as C-suite dependence on technology execution grows
Dive Brief: Dependence on technology execution is growing as 95% of IT leaders say at least two of the C-suite’s top-three priorities rely on them, McKinsey found. The research firm interviewed technology leaders at 52 enterprises — 78% of which had at least 5,000 employees — earlier this year. To achieve agility and increase the …
Naval Engineers Must ‘Lean In’ to Advance Technological Agility > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Story
Rebuilding “strategic momentum” and growing advantages in the maritime domain are challenges Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John M. Richardson addressed in “A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority, Version 2.0,” which updated a 2016 document. At an annual meeting of the American Society of Naval Engineers today in Washington, Richardson said meeting those challenges is a “human …