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JERSEY CITY, N.J., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --ElectrifAi, one of the world's leading companies in practical artificial intelligence (AI) and pre-built machine learning (ML) models, announced today its collaboration with Temple Health,which is a leadingPhiladelphia-based academic health system that is driving medical advances through clinical innovation, pioneering research and world-class education.Temple Health will leverage ElectrifAi's pre-built machine learning models for spend and contract to drive operational efficiency, cost savings, spending control, increased revenue and risk reduction.

ElectrifAi's 17 years of practical machine learning expertise with regard to spend analytics, contract management, customer/patient engagement and machine learning models will help optimize and improve the operations of Temple Health.

Edward Scott, CEO of ElectrifAi said: "For years, our customers in financial services, telecommunications and retail have been leveraging practical machine learning. It was only a matter of time before we integrated pre-built machine learning models into the healthcare environment. The healthcare community can now accelerate their machine learning efforts with our solutions to drive revenue uplift, cost reduction as well as profit and performance improvements in today's fast-changing business climate."

"ElectrifAi's advanced technology will significantly facilitate efficient contracting and financial accounting for Temple Health, with increased data-driven granularity," said Michael A. Young, MHA, FACHE, President and CEO of Temple University Health System and Temple University Hospital. "We look forward to a productive working relationship."

About ElectrifAi

ElectrifAi is a global leader in business-ready machine learning models. ElectrifAi's mission is to help organizations change the way they work through machine learning: driving revenue uplift, cost reduction as well as profit and performance improvement. Founded in 2004, ElectrifAi boasts seasoned industry leadership, a global team of domain experts, and a proven record of transforming structured and unstructured data at scale. A large library of Ai-based products reaches across business functions, data systems, and teams to drive superior results in record time. ElectrifAi has approximately 200 data scientists, software engineers and employees with a proven record of dealing with over 2,000 customer implementations, mostly for Fortune 500 companies. At the heart of ElectrifAi's mission is a commitment to making Ai and machine learning more understandable, practical and profitable for businesses and industries across the globe. ElectrifAi is headquartered in New Jersey, with offices located in Shanghai and New Delhi. To learn more visitwww.electrifAi.netand follow us on Twitter@ElectrifAiand onLinkedIn.

About Temple Health

Temple University Health System (TUHS) is a $2.2 billion academic health system dedicated to providing access to quality patient care and supporting excellence in medical education and research. The Health System includes Temple University Hospital (TUH);TUH-Episcopal Campus; TUH-Jeanes Campus; TUH-Northeastern Campus; Temple University Hospital Fox Chase Cancer Center Outpatient Department; TUH-Northeastern Endoscopy Center; The Hospital of Fox Chase Cancer Center, together with The Institute for Cancer Research, an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center; Fox Chase Cancer Center Medical Group, Inc., The Hospital of Fox Chase Cancer Center's physician practice plan; Temple Transport Team, a ground and air-ambulance company; Temple Physicians, Inc., a network of community-based specialty and primary-care physician practices; and Temple Faculty Practice Plan, Inc., TUHS's physician practice plan. TUHS is affiliated with the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

Temple Health refers to the health, education and research activities carried out by the affiliates of Temple University Health System (TUHS) and by the Katz School of Medicine. TUHS neither provides nor controls the provision of health care. All health care is provided by its member organizations or independent health care providersaffiliated with TUHS member organizations. Each TUHS member organization is owned and operated pursuant to its governing documents.

Non-discrimination notice: It is the policy of Temple University Hospital and The Hospital of Fox Chase Cancer Center, that no one shall be excluded from or denied the benefits of or participation in the delivery of quality medical care on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, disability, age, ancestry, color, national origin, physical ability, level of education, or source of payment.

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US President Joe Biden yesterday announced a goal for 70 percent of the adult US population to have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot by July 4.

Cities are playing a key role in this historic vaccination effort, not only in terms of logistics and administration but also with respect to the critical component of resident engagement.

To maximise vaccine uptake, local governments are working to mitigate any resident concerns; to counter misinformation and distrust; and to clear up confusion about practicalities. To do this effectively they need to understand in close to real-time and at scale how citizens are feeling about vaccines.

Thats why nineteen US cities and counties, including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Newark, are using advanced sentiment analysis to help shape and scale their vaccine programmes.

The initiative is a collaboration between Israeli start-up Zencity and the Harvard Kennedy Schools Ash Center, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and support from Bennet Midland.

Through the programme, the cities and counties are using Zencitys tools to collect and analyse organic feedback from publicly available sources such as social media posts, online channels and local news sites, alongside proactive resident input from community surveys.

Zencity uses artificial intelligence (AI) to classify and sort the data to identify key topics, trends, anomalies, and sentiment.

Each city will receive a report including insights on how opinions about the vaccine break down across demographic groups; trends and themes in community sentiment toward vaccination; misinformation that might need to be addressed; and recommendations for how to communicate about vaccines. Each citys results are benchmarked against the average results from the cohort.

Assaf Frances, Director of Urban Policy, Zencity,said: These results will enable cities to make data-informed decisions as they continue to navigate vaccine rollout. This could mean anything from making the appointment scheduling process more accessible if the results show that logistical hurdles have been a major barrier to mass vaccination, to providing more education around vaccine safety and efficacy to a particular segment of the population where the data is showing more hesitancy.

Deana Gamble, Communications Director, City of Philadelphia, told Cities Today: Were currently in a pivotal moment where vaccine supply has never been greater yet there is still a significant amount of vaccine hesitancy, especially among communities of colour. We need to provide accurate and up-to-date information to those who are still unsure about the benefits of getting the vaccine and how to do so.

With this in mind, Philadelphia has launched the six-month #VaxUpPhilly marketing campaign.

Gamble said one key insight from Zencity was that Philadelphia residents report similar levels of intention to get the vaccine as the cohort average, but they are more likely to wait longer.

This speaks to intention to get vaccinated yet less urgency with residents indicating that they require more information or evidence, specifically by seeing more people they know get the vaccine, Gamble commented. This shows us that the education efforts of our #VaxUpPhilly campaign including use of myth busters and trusted, credible messengers are critical.

Philadelphia faced controversy early in its vaccine rollout. In January, the city cut ties with Philly Fighting COVID, a young start-up which was running the citys largest vaccination site, after it emerged the company had cancelled testing efforts and become a for-profit entity, and concerns were raised about its privacy policy. Philly Fighting COVID said it had the best intentions and had not sold or shared any data but the incident was still damaging for the city.

Gamble said: We certainly acknowledge the mistakes the administration made working with the group which has necessitated rebuilding trust with the public about our vaccination programme. The insights gleaned from Zencity can help us better communicate with residents, which can help us overcome the challenges caused by Philly Fighting COVID.

Liana Elliott, Deputy Chief of Staff for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, said that although New Orleans vaccine rollout is going well, we also are hitting our plateau a little bit earlier than we thought.

Understanding nuances around vaccine sentiment can help the city push through this.

Generally, the hesitancy that we thought we were going to find was not nearly as prevalent in the communities that we expected, Elliott commented, noting lower levels of concern than anticipated in communities of colour and more of a tendency for conservative white men to have reservations.

Further, as in Philadelphia, while many people are willing to get vaccinated, some dont want to go first.

Elliott said: We worked really hard to make sure that we are working with our community partners and getting proactive about talking to people about the vaccine and bringing vaccine events into communities.

This includes encouraging people to share when they have been vaccinated on social media, urging hospitality businesses to incentivise and support staff vaccinations and making the inoculation process a positive one. For example, a brass band played to mark the opening of the vaccination site at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and local bars hosted shots for shots events, which Elliott described as very New Orleans.

These approaches have really encouraged people to go check it out and just go get [their vaccination] done, she said.

The Zencity analysis has also helped New Orleans to shape vaccine messages and understand who are the trusted ambassadors best placed to deliver them.

Research published in March by global communications company Edelmanfound that US residents most trust doctors, scientists and public health officials about vaccine information and are more likely to trust someone like themselves or their organisations CEO than a government official. However, Zencity data showed that New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is one of the most trusted messengers for residents.

Feedback also highlighted some ways the city needed to simplify appointment booking. It then analysed sentiment to check the improvements were working, and this is a continuous process.

If we start seeing more chatter about [something being] hard or [people not knowing] when or where to go, then that means something is broken in that chain of communication we have got to go back and fix it, Elliott said.

She added that a key benefit of the programme with Zencity is: It really helps us confirm that what we are seeing and experiencing anecdotally and locally as staff is in fact holding up across not only our city but across the country and across all the other cohort cities as well.

Sometimes its not necessarily that it informs or changes how were doing things but it affirms that were going the right way and that what were doing is working, she said.

A national report on getting residents on board with vaccinations will be published by Zencity, Harvard Kennedy Schools Ash Center, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Bennett Midlandlater this month.

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To the editor: A well-written letter to the editor ("Letter: 'Well-regulated' an important part of 2nd Amendment," Eagle, April 23) pertaining to the Second Amendment of the Constitution was lacking one important fact.

The Second Amendment was submitted for ratification on Sept. 25, 1789, and the ratification was completed on Dec. 15, 1791, taking 2 years, 2 months and 20 days.

Thats 15 years after the revolution and many years before the Civil War. Neither of those conflicts had much more than black powder muskets.

Based on that knowledge, is it possible to assume that the same framers of the Constitution who forgot to include such an important item were never the less considered brilliant enough to foresee the type of weapons available today? How about the many citizens who voted for ratification?

In the late 1950s, after the Korean War, the standard weapon carried by the U.S. soldier was the .30-caliber M-1. Its capacity was nine rounds eight in a clip and one manually inserted in the chamber. Nothing like those magazine-capable, rapid-fire assault weapons available today.

Was the well-regulated militia referred to in the amendment really describing the "Minute Men" of the revolution? Did America at that time have a sanctioned standing military presence, or was it the farmers, merchants and others who rallied to the defense of the nation when its existence was threatened from foreign invasion?

If reasonable people can interpret the word "arms" to include high-powered, multi-shot, magazine-capable assault weapons, then where does it end? How about flame-throwers, grenades, shoulder-mounted guided missile launchers, etc.?

Reasonable people should also be willing to limit if not completely ban the ownership of such unreasonable weapons by other than a completely well-regulated military.

Al Nadeau, Dalton

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Although the COVID-19 pandemic affected many areas of industry, it did not lessen the impact of Artificial Intelligence in their daily lives. Thus, we can assume that AI-powered solutions will undoubtedly become more widely used in 2021 and beyond.

Here are the top 10Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation trends to watch out for this year:

Knowledge will become more available in the coming years, putting digital data at higher risk of being hacked and vulnerable to hacking and phishing attempts. AI and new technologies will help the security service in combating malicious activities in all areas. With strengthened safety initiatives, AI can help prevent cybercrime in the future.

More unstructured data will be organized in the future using natural language processing and machine learning methods. Organizations can take advantage of these technologies to generate data that can be used by RPA (Robotic Process Automation) technology to automate transactional operation. RPA is one of the tech industrys fastest-growing segments. Its only drawback is that it can only work with structured data. Unstructured data can be easily translated into structured data with the aid of AI, resulting in a valuable performance.

Many industries and companies have deployed AI-powered chatbots in the previous years. Better customer service automation is possible with AI chatbots. These conversational AI chatbots will begin to learn and develop their understanding and communication with customers in 2021.

The Covid-19 pandemic is quickly shifting automation priorities away from front-end processes toward back-end processes and business resilience. Intelligent Automation can, in reality, combine robotic and digital process automation with practical AI and low-code devices. While growing their operations, these innovations will help companies become more competitive and robust.

Quantum AI is set to grow in popularity as more businesses seek to implement the technology in supercomputers. Using quantum bits, quantum computers can tackle any possible problem much faster than traditional computers. This can be useful for processing and analyzing large sets of data in real-time, as well as rapidly predicting specific patterns. In the next decade, quantum AI is predicted to make significant advances in fields such as healthcare and banking.

RPA is one of the most revolutionary AI systems for automating repetitive tasks. On the desktop, it can effectively execute a high-volume, repetitive process without making a mess. Its possible that the job entails invoicing a customer. Furthermore, it can repeat the process several times a day, freeing up human time for more productive activities.

AI is now assisting the healthcare industry in a significant way and with high precision. AI can help healthcare facilities in a variety of ways by analyzing data and predicting different outcomes. AI and machine learning tools provide insights into human health and also propose disease prevention measures. AI technologies also enable doctors to monitor their patients wellbeing from far away, thereby enhancing teleconsultation and remote care.

Artificial intelligence is a wonderful technology that, when combined with the power of the Internet of Things (IoT), can provide a powerful business solution. The convergence of these two technologies in 2021 would lead to significant changes in the automation domain.

Face recognition technology will evolve at a rapid pace in 2021 as a result of the recent Covid-19 problems. It uses biometrics to identify facial characteristics from photographs and videos, and then compares the information to an existing database.

Businesses can use edge computing to convert their daily data into actionable insights. It provides servers and storing data solutions for computers and apps to ensure a smooth operation while allowing for real-time data processing that is much more efficient than cloud computing. Edge computing will also improve the efficiency of cloud servers because it can be carried out on nodes.

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Concealed weapons on campus? HB102 directly raises that issue. But in spite of arguments to the contrary this is not a Second Amendment issue as it relates to campuses. What is at issue is the Regents constitutional right to manage Montanas University System.

Our history is rife with examples where politics and vested interests have interfered with our higher education system. In 1915, at the behest of the Legislature and the Anaconda Company ACM University President Craighead was fired for not towing the ACM line. Later a law professor was terminated for the same reason and a popular teacher was forced out for documenting the blatant favorable taxation granted to mining interests. Throughout the 1950s and 60s mineral and timber interests in the state exercised considerable control in the Legislature. Eventually the people had enough.

The frustration of Montanas people about politics in higher education resulted in the 1972 Constitution creating Montanas Board of Regents and granting it full authority over the higher education system: The government and control of the Montana university system is vested in a board of regents of higher education which shall have full power, responsibility, and authority to supervise, coordinate, manage and control the Montana university system . That broad power underwent judicial review and was affirmed in 1975 by the Montana Supreme Court in State ex rel. Judge. That opinion forms the basis for the Regents sole authority over the university system since that time.

The regents and the university system are responsible for more than 50,000 students, faculty and staff statewide. Many students are under the age of 18, making the university system responsible to a degree for these minors. How to manage weapons within this large and diverse population is a serious responsibility, and one which the Regents have embraced to the apparent consternation of certain members of the legislative branch.

With the concealed carry law, the Legislature attempts to substitute its judgement for that of the regents. Knowing that implementing concealed carry will impose costs on the university system, a million dollars was added to the budget bill in a transparent attempt to bribe or extort their way out of their unconstitutional overreach. A caveat to the budget provides that the right to the extra money is void if the regents challenge the constitutionality of HB102. Not win the case, just challenge the Legislature. The Legislature does not want the regents to oppose HB 102, apparently hoping to buy their way out of a constitutional challenge.

The Legislature is going about this backward. The regents are constitutionally charged with management of the university system. If the Legislature believes the regents policies regarding guns on campuses are unconstitutional, as some have asserted, their path is to challenge the regents and university systems rules in court, not to simply substitute their judgement for that of the regents. If a court determines the university systems current gun policies must be revised the regents will follow the orders of the court. The Legislature has no legitimate role in this process.

The long-term efforts of Montanans to remove politics from higher education came to fruition in the Constitutional Convention in 1972. HB 102, along with the million-dollar bribe, invades the province of the regents to manage the university system. If the regents exercise their legal right to challengeHB102 they are punished. This intrusive precedent should not be tolerated. If the budget amendment and HB102 are not constitutionally challenged the regents and the university system can anticipate that future legislative overreach coupled with blackmail funding amendments will become commonplace. The hard-earned and longstanding constitutional independence of the Montana University System from political control is at stake. We shouldnt let that happen.

Steve Barrett is a retired practicing attorney and former chair of the Montana Board of Regents

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