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Minnesota hospice is recognized for their adoption and innovation in caring for patients.

ST. PAUL, Minn., June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --MUSE Healthcare (www.musehc.com), the premier organization used to enhance end-of-life care with world-class analytics, has announced St. Croix Hospice as the winner of the MUSE Trailblazer Award. The award signifies the successful use of MUSE's technology and insights to achieve the highest quality of patient care. St. Croix Hospice is the first ever organization to receive the award. The award is given to one hospice provider annually that truly shows adoption and innovation in caring for patients.

Co-founder and CEO, Bryan Mosher and Co-founder and President, Jennifer Maxwell, formed a detailed selection committee to review all customers that use MUSE technologies. The selection criteria reviewed the number of patients impacted by the technology, the use of the tools to care for patients at the end of life, and feedback throughout the process. St. Croix Hospice was an early adopter and continues to provide quality feedback that will enhance the technology for years to come. Their expertise and innovative thought leader programs will truly change the way hospice patients are given care.

Executive Director of Quality at St. Croix Hospice, Ashley Arnold (RN), noted the importance of the award for the agency. "It is an honor for the staff at St. Croix Hospice to be recognized for the care we provide every day. The partnership with MUSE has been amazing. It's helped us to ensure we are there for our patients when they need us most."

Chief Clinical Officer at St. Croix Hospice, Mandy Cogswell (RN), was especially eager to share how MUSE has shaped their clinical strategy. "MUSE has helped us identify patient needs. It's not only allowed us to increase our nursing visits at the end of life, but also support provided by our chaplains, social workers and hospice aides. We only have one chance to care for these patients, enabling our clinicians to have all the tools needed to make the right decision at the right time is the St. Croix Hospice way."

About St. Croix Hospice

Founded in 2009 in Oakdale, Minnesota, St. Croix Hospice delivers expert hospice care to patient with life-limiting illnesses. St. Croix Hospice prides itself on providing personalized care to meet each patient and family's individual needs. The agency serves more than 75 percent of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin; eastern Kansas and Nebraska; and western Missouri from 35 branch offices. St. Croix Hospice provides care in private residences, skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities. Care is available 24/7, and appointments and admits are offered via telehealth when needed. Unique services such as the North Star Dementia Program and Voyage Vigil Program offer comprehensive support and proactive symptom management to patients and their families.For more information, visit stcroixhospice.com

About MUSE Healthcare

Muse Healthcare was founded in 2019 by three leading hospice industry professionals-- Jennifer Maxwell, Tom Maxwell and Bryan Mosher. Their mission is to equip clinicians with world-class analytics to ensure every hospice patient transitions with unparalleled quality and dignity. Muse's predictive model considers hundreds of thousands of data points from millions of visits to identify which hospice patients are most likely to transition within 7-12 days. The science that powers Muse is considered a true deep learning neural network the only one of its kind in the hospice space. When hospice care providers can more accurately predict when their patients will transition, they can ensure their patients and their patients' families receive the care that matters most in the final days and final hours of a patient's life. For more information, visit musehc.com.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Kumar Sreekanti, the driving force behind the new HPE Ezmeral container platform and artificial intelligence machine-learning Ops software, said Ezmeral is the undisputed leader in the race to bring AI and ML to the enterprise.

HPE has built AI applications, said Sreekanti, a software innovator who started AI superstar BlueData, which was acquired by HPE in 2018. When it comes to the [AI] PaaS [Platform-as-a-Service] layer, we are the undisputed leader. Not only are we the undisputed leader but it is open source. So if somebody wants to run DataRobot they can. We have one customer who runs DataRobot on top of the Ezmeral platform. So we are the clear leader [with AI] in front compared to anybody. Tell me where a [Red Hat] OpenShift or a [VMware] Tanzu is running an AI ML application? We are in front.

As for AWS SageMaker AI offering, Sreekanti pointed out that it comes up short because it effectively prevents customers from moving seamlessly to another cloud. AWS sits in a walled garden with SageMaker, he said. The problem with AWS with SageMaker is that when you end up with SageMaker you are stuck with SageMaker. You cant lift it and go where you want. Whereas if you run on top of the BlueData Ezmeral software you can take that and run it somewhere else.

Sreekantiwho sometimes is referred to as the professor inside HPE, this week unveiled HPEs Ezmeral software platform, which essentially provides the IaaS {Infrastructure-as-a-Service] and PaaS platforms for partners and customers to build a new generation of intelligent applications that take advantage of the platforms robust AI and machine-learning capabilities.

Among HPEs big advantages with Ezmeral is the BlueData AI machine-learning software that Sreekanti delivered to customers at BlueData. That software is designed to run both stateful and stateless workloadsessentially allowing HPE to provide the same cloud experience in a cloud-native or on-premises workload in the data center or even in real time at the edge.

It is the only one that runs AI ML Spark [real-time data] workloads while running CICD [Continous Integration, Continuous Delivery], said Srkeenati.

The machine-learning operations for Ezmeral run with the Kubernetes open-source platform on the same hardware as the HPE MapR file system. What that does is give the customer the ability to get the best out of the whole organized stack from the top to the bottom, said Sreekanti.

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Caitlin Foord was just 16 years and eight months old when she had her first taste of World Cup football, a one-nil loss to Brazil in the first round of the 2011 women's World Cup in Germany.

Today the 25-year-old from the NSW south coast is a veteran of three World Cups and believes hosting the tournament in Australia and New Zealand would be a game-changer for the sport domestically.

"To have any major football tournament in Australia let alone a World Cup is something Australia has never seen before," Foord said.

"I think it will do massive things for the game in Australia for both girls and boys growing up playing football.

"It gives younger generations and upcoming footballers a chance to see what they can strive to be and drive towards.

Australia will learn at 2:00am AEST on Friday whether it will be hosting the women's FIFA 2023 World Cup alongside New Zealand with Colombia remaining the only rival bid after Japan withdrew from contention.

With the memories of Australia's unsuccessful bid for the 2022 men's competition lingering, the FFA will be reluctant to count its chickens before they hatch.

But Foord said if the bid was successful, hosting the tournament would be a testament to the growing popularity of the Matildas.

"As the years have gone on you can feel Australia has grown to love the Matildas as a team," she said.

"You see that when we have games at home and we get 18,000 to 20,000 people showing up."

Stepping onto the field in Mnchengladbach in 2011, Caitlin Foord became the youngest player, male or female, to play at a World Cup and was determined to make the most of her chance.

"I just grabbed it with two hands as I didn't want to miss my opportunity," Foord said.

"I was converted to a right back and the national team needed a right back at that time and it opened the door for me to start my international career."

Foord quickly locked down a place in the Matildas starting line-up and featured in all Australia's games.

Despite the Matildas exiting the competition in their first knockout game, Foord's performances in Germany turned heads and earned her the inaugural best young player accolade.

Nine years later her performances both domestically and abroad, she caught the eye of one of the biggest clubs in world football.

Foord signed with Arsenal in January this year but was only able to play a handful of games before COVID-19 prematurely ended the season.

"It was obviously not the start I wanted. I guess that's what happens."

"I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else when the lockdown hit, just because how the club looked after us and everyone was so positive it felt like you were still part of the team.

"It gave me an opportunity to get to know some of the players as well, so I think that's only going to help when we go back for next season."

Foord also said she was looking forward to working with highly regarded Australian coach Joe Montemurro when training resumed in July.

"I didn't know Joe before, but I'd only heard good things and after my first conversation I was sold.

"I haven't really got the chance to work with him that much yet so definitely looking forward to that when the season starts."

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Quantum computing has the promise to reshape industries by unleashing computing power well beyond what traditional computers have. Logistics, pharmaceuticals and financial services all stand to benefit from applying the new technology.

JPMorgan Chase (ticker: JPM) published data last week about one of its quantum-computing experiments demonstrating the banks growing expertise in that realm. The academic-style paper is a little Byzantine, but investors should pay attention, because they will be hearing more about quantum computing from other players, including Honeywell (HON), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) in the near future.

In this paper, we present a novel, canonical way to produce a quantum oracle from an algebraic expression, the authors of the JPMorgan paper wrote. Thats a mouthful. Canonical, in this instance, appears to mean authoritative. And according to Microsoft, a quantum oracle is a is a black box operation that is used as input to another algorithm.

Microsofts definition only raises more questions and probably doesnt help many of the uninitiated, Barrons included. Classically, an oracle answers questions about the future. That isnt a bad analogy for quantum computing. The technology is mysterious and its power not completely understood by many peopleinvestors included.

The use of a quantum oracle, in this instance, makes doing complicated math with fibonacci numbers easier than with traditional computing systems. Fibonacci numbers form a sequence in which each number is the sum of the prior two. The sequences have applications in investing and information security, among other areas.

The Morgan team ran their experiment on the new Honeywell computer based on trapped-ion technology with quantum volume 64.

Honeywell has the hardware. And just before the JPMorgan paper was released, the industrial conglomerate announced it had created the worlds most powerful quantum computer, achieving a quantum volume of 64. Essentially, Honeywell has successfully tethered six q-bits, or quantum bits, together.

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Quantum volume is an industry term. The number 64 comes from 2 raised to the power of 6. A big reason quantum computers can do more is the q-bits can have two values at the same time. Six bits can have, essentially, 64 states at once. Quite frankly, its all a little confusing.

Today, quantum computers can still be beaten in most applications by traditional computers. But quantum power is growing. The first Wright brother flight went 600 meters, Christopher Savoie, founder and CEO of quantum computing firm Zapata Computing, said. He was explaining how to think of the current generation of quantum-computing technology. The Wright brothers flight happened in 1903 and by 1918 there were air forces around the globe.

Zapata partners with Honeywell to help develop quantum programs, applications and algorithms. Zapata helps with the software running on Honeywell hardware used by JPMorgan.

The capability of [quantum computing] is exponential, Savoie said. There is a hockey-stick-like pattern that develops as more q-bits are added to the system. It will be tough to find an area of human activity where this wont help.

It is a little mind bending. But paying attention early will give investors an edge down the road.

JPMorgan stock was down more than 2% last week, worse than the 1.9% and 1% respective gains of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 over the same span. Honeywell shares gained 0.6% last week.

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Honeywell says its new quantum computer is twice as fast than any other machine.

In the race to the future of quantum computing, Honeywell has just secured a fresh lead.

The North Carolina-based conglomerate announced Thursday that it has produced the worlds fastest quantum computer, at least twice as powerful as the existing computers operated by IBM and Google.

The machine, located in a 1,500-square-foot high-security storage facility in Boulder, Colorado, consists of a stainless steel chamber about the size of basketball that is cooled by liquid helium at a temperature just above absolute zero, the point at which atoms stop vibrating. Within that chamber, individual atoms floating above a computer chip are targeted with lasers to perform calculations.

While people have studied the potential of quantum computing for decades, that is, building machines with the ability to complete calculations beyond the limits of classic computers and supercomputers, the sector has until recently been limited to the intrigue of research groups at tech companies such as IBM and Google.

But in the past year, the race between those companies to claim supremacy and provide a commercial use in the quantum race has become heated. Honeywells machine has achieved a Quantum Volume of 64, a metric devised by IBM that measures the capability of the machine and error rates, but is also difficult to decipher (and as quantum computing expert Scott Aaronson wrote in March, is potentially possible to game). By comparison, IBM announced in January that it had achieved a Quantum Volume of 32 with its newest machine, Raleigh.

Google has also spent significant resources on developing its quantum capabilities and In October said it had developed a machine that completed a calculation that would have taken a supercomputer 10,000 years to process in just 200 seconds. (IBM disputed Googles claim, saying the calculation would have taken only 2.5 days to complete.)

Honeywell has been working toward this goal for the past decade when it began developing the technology to produce cryogenics and laser tools. In the past five years, the company assembled a team of more than 100 technologists entirely dedicated to building the machine, and in March, Honeywell announced it would be within three months a goal it was able to meet even as the Covid-19 turned its workforce upside down and forced some employees to work remotely. We had to completely redesign how we work in the facilities, had to limit who was coming on the site, and put in place physical barriers, says Tony Uttley, president of Honeywell Quantum Solutions. All of that happened at the same time we were planning on being on this race.

The advancement also means that Honeywell is opening its computer to companies looking to execute their own unimaginably large calculations a service that can cost about $10,000 an hour, says Uttley. While it wont disclose how many customers it has, Honeywell did say that it has a contract with JPMorgan Chase, which has its own quantum experts who will use its machine to execute gargantuan tasks, such as building fraud detection models. For those companies without in-house quantum experts, queries can be made through intermediary quantum firms, Zapata Computing and Cambridge Quantum Computing.

With greater access to the technology, Uttley says, quantum computers are nearing the point where they have graduated from an item of fascination to being used to solve problems like climate change and pharmaceutical development. Going forward, Uttley says Honeywell plans to increase the Quantum Volume of its machine by a factor of 10 every year for the next five years, reaching a figure of 640,000 a capability far beyond that imagined ever before.

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