Category: Healthcare

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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Limiting the Spread of AIDS

During my discussions about Development-in-a-Box™, I have often made the point that frontier economies progress faster when they have achieved a few pre-conditions that help them attract foreign direct investment. One of

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Good News about Measles

One of the fundamental efforts being made by the international community is to reduce the number of deaths caused by various treatable diseases. Among the targeted diseases are AIDS, malaria, and measles.

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Global Anti-Smoking Effort Launched

In 1947, singer/songwriter Merle Travis wrote the song “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!” for the famous country-western songwriter and entertainer Sollie “Tex” Williams. The song was a million seller. The chorus of that song

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Forecasting Pandemics

Resilience is normally defined as the ability to bounce back after some catastrophic event. Needless to say, resilience is a great characteristic for any system to have. Even better than resilience, however,

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Smoking and Development

One of the subjects I have repeatedly written about in this blog is healthcare in developing countries and how important it is to have a healthy population in order to attract FDI.

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Food as Medicine

Finding easy and inexpensive ways to provide prophylactic medications to people (especially children) in developing countries remains a goal for those involved with global health issues. Preventing diseases is much cheaper than

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Eradicating Polio

American’s of my generation and younger don’t really remember the fear of contracting polio that gripped much of the country before the early 1960s. That’s because the disease was pretty much eradicated

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Potential Cholera Outbreak in Iraq

In many post-crisis situations, cholera is a serious problem. The disease causes severe diarrhea, dehydration, and often death. People usually get infected with the cholera bacteria by eating contaminated food or drinking

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Good News About Measles

Very quietly — but very effectively — a global campaign has been waged against measles. This, of course, is good news. A healthy population is essential for development. It is one of

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