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The implementation and effectiveness of geographic information systems and location intelligence technology in  Times of India

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Declining Stock and Decent Financials: Is The Market Wrong About Medlive Technology Co., Ltd. (HKG:2192)?  Simply Wall St

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Yakama Nation's 'deadliest intersection' to be monitored with new technology  Yakima Herald-Republic

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New disruptive financial technology from the startup nation Offers a new perspective on digital wallets, loyalty programs, and multi-channel services: The CREDOPLUS - All-in-One digital wallet is transforming the experience of fintech consumers USA - English  PR Newswire

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New SMART and ATTAIN Programs Support Innovation that Advances American Competitiveness, Fights Climate Change, Improves Safety and Helps Americans Save Time and Money

WASHINGTON- The U.S. Department of Transportation announced today that it is accepting applications for two programs that will make approximately $160 million available annually for the next five years for projects that use technology to improve our transportation infrastructure and make communities safer.

The first program is the new Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program. The SMART Grants Program is made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by President Biden on November 15, 2021. The program will offer up to $100 million in grants annually over the next five years and will fund projects that use data and technology to solve real-world challenges facing communities today.

As we undertake the most ambitious infrastructure investment in generations, thanks to the Presidents Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we can and must plan for the transportation needs of the future, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. From connected vehicles that make driving safer, to smart traffic signals that reduce congestion, to sensors to detect the quality of pavement to help prioritize repair, our SMART grants will fund technology that makes peoples lives better in communities across America.

The SMART program will fund purpose-driven innovation and focus on building data and technology capacity and expertise. The Program seeks proposals from public sector entities that will carry out demonstration projects in the following domains to address key transportation priorities:

Achieving our transportation priorities related to safety, economic strength, equity, and climate requires bold investment in new technologies and approaches, said Dr. Robert C. Hampshire, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology and Chief Science Officer at US DOT. SMART supports a broad portfolio of projects across the country that will serve as beacons as we move toward a transportation system that is data-driven, values-based, and technology-enabled.

The second is the Federal Highway Administrations $60 million Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN) program to promote advanced technologies to improve safety and reduce travel times for drivers and transit riders and that can serve as national examples. As a result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, ATTAIN-eligible projects will be evaluated on how they consider climate change and environmental justice impacts including how they reduce transportation-related air pollution and address the disproportionate impacts on disadvantaged communities. In addition, projects are evaluated on their economic impact and potential to create jobs.

As we level the playing field and improve the travel experience for everyone, we need to promote the use of state-of-the-art technologies, and the ATTAIN program does just that, said Acting Federal Highway Administrator Stephanie Pollack. The Biden-Harris Administration has taken a program with a track record of delivering innovation through the use of advanced technologies and made it truly forward-looking by refocusing its goals to include promoting equity and tackling climate change, in addition to creating jobs and delivering positive economic impact.

The SMART Notice of Funding (NOFO) is open now and can be found at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=SMART. Applications must be submitted by 5:00 PM EDT on Friday, November 18, 2022. Eligible entities are state, local, and tribal governments and agencies. For more information visit https://www.transportation.gov/grants/SMART.

The ATTAIN NOFO can also be found at http://www.grants.gov. State departments of transportation, local governments, transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations and other eligible entities are invited to apply. Applications must be submitted by Friday, November 18, 2022. For more information, visit the FHWA web site.

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by MICHAEL MCCAUL

America has always been a country at the forefront of innovation. As a nation, we imagine the impossible and then execute.

When John F. Kennedy committed to putting a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, he encapsulated the spirit of American determination, stating: We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.

That speech personified American greatness, and we built our national strength on our technological prowess. Yet over the last few decades, we have seen American innovation stolen and sold to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), putting our technological leadership at risk of being overtaken.

Specifically, our export control system has failed to protect U.S. technologies from fueling the rise of our adversaries militaries and surveillance regimes. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) within the Department of Commerce is overseeing a system that keeps very little technology away from the PRC.

Technological leadership will determine the outcome of our great global competition with the Peoples Republic of China. They are using their Military-Civil Fusion Strategy to remove any barriers for its military to access technology being used in, or developed by, the commercial sector. If BIS continues to mindlessly green light sensitive technology sales, the PRC will use it against us.

We recently witnessed a PRC hypersonic missile test which circled the globe and landed with precision. This was only possible through U.S. technology that was sold to them. This should be a wakeup call to all Americans that we must take export controls seriously.

Make no mistake the BIS has one of the most critical national security jobs within the U.S. government. This agency can stop the transfer of U.S. technology to our adversaries who use it for military applications and human rights abuses. With the stroke of a pen, the BIS can constrain the PRCs military and disrupt its surveillance state.

Yet for BIS, it is business as usual.

A recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) study found that of the roughly $125 billion in U.S. exports to China in 2020, BIS required licenses for 2.1 percent of exports.

Alarmingly, 99 percent of controlled technologies went to China without a license. This raises the question why is the BIS failing at its job and how can we make it the effective agency it needs to be?

The answer is to actually follow the law and pursue new legislation to ensure there are effective technology controls and more robust involvement from other national security agencies.

BIS can no longer look the other way or rubber stamp licenses when American companies are transferring sensitive technology to the PRC. The times have changed, and BIS needs to step up.

Moreover, BIS can no longer hide information and avoid transparency from Congress and the American people.

We must fortify BIS and ensure they are carrying out their mission to protect American intellectual property and innovation.

Our future depends on it.

Michael McCaul represents the 10th District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves as the Republican Leader of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and is Chairman of the House GOP China Task Force.

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China is Stealing Our Technology and That Will Come to an End - The Ripon Society

You dont have to be in the retail to know what a big deal Black Friday is. The promotions for sales the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday are everywhere, from billboards to online. The Balance, a personal finance content website points out that Black Friday is one of the biggest and most profitable retail days of the year.

And the phenomenon extends far beyond the U.S.: Bustle.com reports that nearly 20 different countries have Black Friday sales of their own. But what if a retail company faced the prospect of its core digital systems being down during this pivotal four days?

Building on a solid foundation

And that brings us to Carrefour a French group and a leading global retailer. Carrefour has been a pioneer in the large food retail business for 60 years. The company reaches more than 100 million households a year and gets over a million single visits to all of its online shopping websites every day.

Thats impressive, right? But the leaders of Carrefours Brazil unit were concerned that their old Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system would not be able to keep up with the demands of a post-pandemic world. It was time to take their technology to the next level a new ERP in the cloud, that would be able to move more quickly and at the same time. Plus, save a great deal of money.

For whom the clock ticks

As they confronted this reality, the people at Carrefour were hearing the loud sound of a clock ticking. Black Friday was just a few months away. If there was any delay in the delivery of the project, the current data center would have to be shut down. In other words, the company would increase its costs for demand in November, when Black Friday takes place, said Paulo Henrique Farroco, the CIO of Carrefour Brasil. At that point, they had a little over three months to get it done.

The power of partnership

Carrefour chose SAP S/4HANA as the only system that would cover their entire process from origination, risk management, and logistics through back-office processes like finance, accounting, and tax to operational processes. And they picked partner Mignow for the project because it was the most innovative option, where all the steps of their data migration could happen automatically, through software. Using artificial intelligence tools, it understands the database, diagnoses the project, automates the conversion steps, and performs automatic updates.

Hitting the mark

With all the pieces of the plan in place, Carrefour completed the migration to a new data center and connectivity services structure in just three months. The highly complex project included migrating from the old on-premise system to a Cloud Software-as-a-Service environment updating the integration architecture using new middleware, and installing the very latest version of the new ERP. It was a major step into the future, and just as important, everything was ready well before Black Friday.

Adding it all up

Carrefour is already seeing the benefits from the project. Its reducing operating costs by 40%. The migration opens up the possibility for stores to predict whether the quantity of products ordered will increase or decrease, being ready for whatever their customers need. With more robust and faster analysis of sales orders, theyre predicting an increase in profitability.

Carrefour is even reducing energy consumption by 45% by moving from on-premise data centers to the cloud. The project minimized service disruption for shoppers and employees with seamless migration across on-premises apps. And Carrefours Paulo Farroco adds, As we continue to implement best practices and adapt our operations to the cloud, well be able to reduce our costs even further into the future.

This project earned Carrefour a winners position at the 2022 SAP Innovation Awards, honoring organizations that have used SAP products, services, solutions, and offerings to benefit both business and society. You can read the details behind Carrefours accomplishment in their Innovation Awards Pitch Deck.

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Timing, Technology, and Staying in Touch with Your Customer - CIO

David Lundquist, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Augmedix

Burnout is a growing situation that has been slowly undermining the productivity of physicians and their staff. And in recent years, its gotten worse as demands from patients, documentation, and regulatory requirements increase.

Adding to the situation are challenges related to added technology, the need to be virtual and to meet patients where they are, and the need to keep up with constantly changing information and landscape in terms of what our patients need from us.

Kirk Davis, executive director of operations at Dignity Health, calls it time poverty, as the demands on physicians increases, calling for more time in the office and less time spent at home with family, tipping the scale of work-life balance toward burnout.

Those who become physicians go into medicine because it gives them meaning and a sense of purpose. Yet many feel that their altruistic reasons have been washed out of the field of medicine, which has become very robotic and documentation centric as relationships with patients are de-emphasized. Adding to the mix are the challenges of RVUs, which determine reimbursements for services provided, and its easy to see how much of the work physicians perform seems unrelated to patient care.

Distracted Doctors

I compare the application of technology in medicine to distracted drivers and their cell phones. Cell phones are great, but when behind the wheel, drivers should be focused on the road and not texting and doing silly things that would keep them from being safe.

And I think in many ways, our physicians and staff are distracted clinicians. They have technology thats barking at them and asking them to pay attention and look at tasks and alerts and information. And during the pandemic, we added video visits, forcing physicians to fumble with another layer of technology to interact with patients but distancing them even more in some ways.

On top of this, add in the demands of EHRselectronic health recordsand documentation; its no wonder our docs are distracted. More clinicians are retiring early, switching professions, reporting burnout and depression, and even committing suicide.

Can Technology Lessen the Burden?

The promise of technology in medicine certainly makes sense. We see it in other industries, making it more efficient to book travel, look up a restaurant and figure out where were going to eat or buy movie tickets, or whatever it is in our lives that has been made a little bit more accessible and easier to do.

And yet, in healthcare, it feels like the promise of technology hasnt quite hit it yet. Were a little bit behind other industries. Businesses were already conducting video teleconferences, but pre-COVID, virtual visits were only being piloted on a tiny scale. The pandemic forced clinicians to embrace virtual visits quickly. And while virtual visits are not the solution for every patient, its a solution for many, as providers and patients utilize the available technology to make the pathway for patient-provider contact easier.

Are Algorithms Replacing Experience?

On the one hand, technology does make patients safer. Data-driven programs provide predictive modeling, and some physicians use drop-down menus to make decisions. But when do years of training and experience outweigh algorithms? When data replaces experience, does it take the meaning from the work as physicians lose the sense that their training and experience are relevant? At what point does a physician rely on their training and experience and not the data? Were still trying to figure that out.

But at the end of the day, were still treating unpredictable humans who may be facing stressors contributing to their condition, which the computer cant account for.

As humans, we have this unique ability to take a lot of complex data and bring it together and find the nuance in all of that. And I think that computers, technology, and automation can do some of the heavy lifting work. And when we pair that with our unique humanness, we can arrive at a patient-centric diagnosis for the person sitting across from us versus a generalized answer.

The Electronic Health Record

In no place has technology expanded to meet documentation and regulatory demands more than the EHR. From the Dictaphone and transcriptionists to voice to text, voice to transcription into the EHR, to the use of scribeswere seeing greater use of technology to work in the EHR.

Technology has helped clinicians stay up to date on charting instead of working late and having stacks of incomplete paper charts on their desks.

Patients are embracing this technology as well because its improving access, its speeding up care, and probably most importantly, its making things convenient for them. Because all records are a click away, theres never the risk of a misplaced chart. And a physician on call has access to charts while at home.

Technology can support the work-life balance.

Technology can make it easier for patients to see their clinicians and make them feel more comfortable. Technology can help fill staffing shortages. And technology can help physicians work at the top of their licenses and work with patients in the way we want to. If we incorporate the right tech into our day-to-day, it becomes a blessing.

In my opinion, technology is our North star, and we need to embrace it.

About David Lundquist, MD

In December 2019, Dr. Davin Lundquist joined Augmedix as Chief Medical Officer.In this role, Dr. Lundquist drives rapid technological innovation across Augmedix product development teams while maintaining clinical excellence and tight alignment with the ever-changing US healthcare landscape. Dr. Lundquists portfolio includes introducing next-generation natural language processing automation modules into the Augmedix workflow and advancing Augmedixs real-time support systems prompting doctors to close care gaps and tend to other critical quality initiatives. Dr. Lundquist also supports the companys commercial efforts as it expands its footprint among major US healthcare systems.

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