Lalo Perez The economic downturn that began in 2008 has been a nightmare for private sector chief financial officers everywhere. But public sector CFOs, forced to juggle myriad interests beyond the balance sheet on many fronts, have had an even harder time of it.

Salesforce COO Bret Taylor says effective AI depends on good data, with clearly defined business outcomes focused on customers. AI is no longer the exclusive domain of large enterprises. It’s entering the business mainstream—but it’s successful only somet

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In one of the largest healthcare deals to date, Kaiser Permanente is acquiring Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health and investing $5 billion to fold it into a new nonprofit subsidiary called Risant Health, which is set to purchase additional medical groups

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Now that it’s upending the way you play music, cook, shop, hear the news and check the weather, the friendly voice emanating from your Amazon Alexa-enabled smart speaker is poised to wriggle its way into all things health care. Amazon has big ambitions fo

Medical professionals have been storing personal health information in electronic form for more than a decade, but it is cumbersome for patients to gather disparate computer and paper records scattered across doctors’ offices, hospitals and medical labs.