The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is pushing the healthcare industry from a fee-for-service to a pay-for-performance delivery model. As a result, effective population health management is now more critical than ever. In addition, as Value Based Purchasing (VBP) and a number of related bundled payment alternatives are currently being trialed to determine how hospitals will soon get paid, demand for solutions that effectively combine and distill the underlying data is booming.

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Whether in Hong Kong, Brussels, New York or Dubai, getting enough sleep can be a challenge for many workers and travelers across the globe. Businesses have long capitalized on our sleep deprivation, offering customized mattresses and other high-tech solutions to solve our sleep needs. Now, a different offering for the sleep deprived has appeared on the market: nap lounges. In several major cities, people can pay to take a midday snooze. This concept seems like a natural (and monetized) next step in the trend of offices offering nap lounges for workers.

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Nancy Thornberry is the CEO of Kallyope. . Nancy was formerly Senior Vice President and Franchise Head, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Merck & Co. Inc. In this role she led discovery and clinical research in diabetes, osteoporosis, fertility and contraception. Prior to her role as Franchise Head, Nancy initiated and was a leader of Merck’s dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) project, which resulted in the discovery of JANUVIA® for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes. Among other notable scientific accomplishments is the identification of the first caspase, interleukin-1β converting enzyme (ICE/caspase-1). For her scientific contributions she has received numerous awards, including the Merck Presidential Fellowship, Merck Directors Award, Heroes of Chemistry Award by the American Chemical Society, and in 2011 received the Pharmaceuticals Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Discoverers Award, which honors research scientists whose work has been of special benefit to humankind. In addition to her role at Kallyope, she serves as a Director at Intarcia Therapeutics and Abide Therapeutics.

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Digital channels have become an easy way for citizens to connect with their local governments.

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It seems we all have a memory of a particularly cool, young teacher that really shaped our sense of self as we grew up. You know the one — just a little hard on you because he “knew you could do it,” the one who taught you how to build a fire at summer camp, and spent a whole lunch period explaining girls to you when your first girlfriend broke your heart.

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If the “hints” of new particles turn out to be nothing but noise, it’s a nightmare scenario for many. But one physicist hopes for the nightmare to be real.

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Intel finally launched the highly anticipated “Knights Landing” (KNL) version of their Many Integrated Core (MIC) Xeon Phi processor at this years’ international supercomputing event (now called ISC High Performance), targeting High Performance Computing (HPC) and the white-hot market for training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). DNNs are used to power everything from the ads you see on Google to autonomous cars to natural language processing to image recognition. The announcement started a bit of a food fight: Intel claims that they can beat NVIDIA in Deep Learning by over 2x, to which NVIDIA responded that, no, actually their new accelerators beat Intel by, you guessed it, by over 2x.

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Game of Thrones only really had a few key scenes that made the entire season worthwhile. Forbes contributor Todd Kenreck recaps the entire season in just two minutes.

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