Artificial Intelligence

While traveling to and from the American Records Management Association (ARMA) annual conference in Nashville two weeks ago, I read an interesting and entertaining book. Written in 2015, Rejection Proof is about overcoming rejection in the business world.

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The ROT use case involved acquiring first-generation file analytics software to identify and eliminate duplicates, aged out content and non-relevant information from repositories across the enterprise. The benefit was the lower cost of operations and measurable hard dollar cost savings. Savings were calculated per gigabyte and reflected not only actual reduced storage capacity but the operational, compliance and process costs of managing content on-premises.

The challenge many of my clients face is the ever-accelerating growth of a demanding client base and requirements to change to align with that demand. But before making any decisions on what goes and stays, both from an information and platform perspective, you first need to understand what you have and where it is

The pandemic changed a lot of things; most notably how people worked alone AND together outside the office. Without an office to go to during lockdown meant that we learned how to recreate at home our work-based creature comforts – free coffee, office supplies and a cafeteria. Another office creature comfort for which we had to figure out workarounds during COVID centered on the file cabinet, desk drawer or remote warehouses to access physical records.

Held in Indianapolis, Indiana, organizers of the MER Conference – in my humble opinion, the best venue for learning about the information governance industry – braved the COVID threat and limited corporate travel budgets to deliver an innovative and highly effective event that was genuinely packed with great content.  

There has been much written on how all of us have had to modify our working habits as a result Covid. The pandemic was an accelerant to change; but it was not the reason why employees began to embrace collaboration tools such as Teams to do their most important work.

Rebate management is a business process that intersects every aspect of the pharmaceutical business, from manufacturer to provider to payer and, of course, consumers of pharmacology itself.