Author: Connected World

At this year’s Inland Transport Committee roundtable hosted by the UNECE (UN Economic Commission for Europe), the panel identified three critical challenges facing global supply chains: labor shortages, equipment availability, and the ripple effect of global bottlenecks. Though the panel convened earlier this year, the challenges facing international supply chains across industries remain the same in the second half of the year. Can the newly passed CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 deliver on its promise to strengthen supply chains? Will it help alleviate the ongoing chip shortage? In January, Gartner predicted things like inflation, increased borrowing rates, and geopolitical…

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According to Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, healthcare is high up there on the list of experiences that “need reinvention.” Americans would tend to agree. A study published by Statista suggests 43% of people in the U.S. are not very satisfied or not at all satisfied with the American health system. But is Amazon the company to reinvent healthcare? The tech giant’s latest proposed acquisition has sparked a lot of discussion about the future of Amazon, the future of healthcare in the U.S., and the future of health data—and, more specifically, the privacy of health data. In…

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