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6 tips to make flexible working work for you

07/01/2019

By Alison WrightCustomer Programme Manager, Microsoft UK

Since becoming a parent, I’ve had quite a lot of important decisions to make. Which way to feed, which vaccinations… One decision was easy. I financially need to work, but I also love my job and knew I wanted to come back to it. However, I was also aware that I didn’t want to sacrifice...

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12 days of an AI Christmas: Re-skilling the workforce with digital skills

23/12/2018

By Kelly LimonteHealth Industry Lead

With the pace of technologies such as AI, there’s no hiding from the urgent need to reskill the UK workforce. We take a look at how Microsoft is helping to close that gap through digital skills courses and organisations such as the NHS....

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12 days of an AI Christmas: Improving operational efficiencies in the NHS

22/12/2018

By Kelly LimonteHealth Industry Lead

The acute care crisis in the UK means hospitals are struggling to align capacity to the increasing demand, however predictive analytics and connected devices are offering a solution....

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12 days of an AI Christmas: Preventing falls in the elderly

21/12/2018

By Kelly LimonteHealth Industry Lead

The NHS is under huge strain to deliver care to more of us as we live longer. Microsoft has worked with partners to use machine learning tools to help prevent falls in the elderly....

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Challenging the millennial stereotype

21/12/2018

By Laura-Jane EllardMarketing Communications Manager, Modern Workplace

There’s more to millennials than you read online. What if we started thinking about them in terms of the entire business? And understanding employees as individuals? Let them choose for themselves how they do their best work and provide the tools to help them do it....

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12 days of an AI Christmas: Science fiction comes to life with HoloLens in healthcare

20/12/2018

By Kelly LimonteHealth Industry Lead

Microsoft HoloLens and Surface Go are being used with incredible impact in the NHS. From reading vitals remotely through a camera, to enabling remote collaboration for first line workers. We take a look at some incredible use cases to show how these devices are being used....

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12 days of an AI Christmas: Gamification technology to improve physiotherapy

19/12/2018

By Kelly LimonteHealth Industry Lead

Project Fizzyo, a research collaboration between Great Ormond Street Hospital, UCL, and Microsoft, is making huge steps in helping to improve the care for Cystic Fibrosis patients, thanks to big data and machine learning technology....

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12 days of an AI Christmas: 6 Office 365 tools to enhance productivity in the NHS

18/12/2018

By Kelly LimonteHealth Industry Lead

There are many ways that AI is working for us in the background while empowering us to be more productive. Particularly in healthcare, there’s a huge opportunity for AI to assist not only by giving more time to spend on what’s important and out of the back office, but also ultimately helping save money in...

12 days of an AI Christmas: The chatbot opportunity in healthcare

17/12/2018

By Kelly LimonteHealth Industry Lead

It’s not hard to see why the chatbot innovation triggers excitement in the NHS. Chatbots can ease staffing issues, triage patients to the correct services, and source intelligent information for patients to their smart devices whenever they need it. We explore the opportunities it presents for healthcare....

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12 days of an AI Christmas: Improving care for COPD patients

16/12/2018

By Kelly LimonteHealth Industry Lead

COPD is an incredibly isolating condition. However a research project is exploring how AI and machine learning can be used to recognise patterns in COPD patient conditions to aid intervention and prevention, and ultimately improve care for patients....

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