Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year. Virtua Health had an early start to digital technology that included the implementation of an integrated electronic health record across its inpatient and ambulatory campuses. "Fast forward to 2020, the health system experienced what can only be described as a convergence of factors driving deployment of fully remote virtual digital health practices achieved within days of the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic," said Dr. Tarun Kapoor, the health system's chief digital transformation officer. In the summer of 2020, the Virtua Board of Trustees presented a strategic challenge to organize the rapid transformative learnings over the prior months into a structure that was sustainable and scalable.

The National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (2021-2025) is prepared by the Digital Transformation Office of the Presidency and the Ministry of Industry and Technology, taking the opinions of other stakeholders in order to determine a roadmap for the studies carried out in the field of artificial intelligence ("AI") in Turkey. Within this scope, Circular numbered 2021/18 on the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy ("Circular") was published in the Official Gazette dated 20 August 2021 and numbered 31574, and the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy Document ("Strategy") on Digital Transformation Office of the Presidency's website on 24 August 2021. It has been decided to establish a "National Artificial Intelligence Strategy Steering Committee" ("Steering Committee") with the participation of the Head of the Digital Transformation Office of the Presidency and the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Technology in order to develop policies at the national level, disseminate the use of artificial intelligence technologies and monitor the applications within this scope. The Steering Committee will convene at least once every three months and may form sub-committees, advisory and working groups when it deems necessary. The vision is determined as generating value on a global scale with an agile and sustainable AI ecosystem for Turkey.

Turkey is drawing a road map for its strategy in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), which can be defined as the realization of actions such as making decisions, discovering meaning and learning in dynamic environments specific to intelligent creatures, by a computer or a computer-controlled machine. Accordingly, the Presidential Circular on the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for 2021-2025 was published Friday in the Official Gazette. The document was prepared by the Presidency's Digital Transformation Office and the Industry and Technology Ministry in line with the 11th Development Plan. The country's priorities in the field and the steps to be taken were determined within the framework of the "Digital Turkey" and "National Technology Move" visions. Digital Turkey aims for a globally competitive Turkey with the increase in productivity it provides by using digital technology, products and services in its social, economic and public activities and the value it generates from data.

Infor COO, Pam Murphy: "Our customers kick ass." At the start of Inforum 2016, Infor's Chief Operating Officer, Pam Murphy, stood on stage and announced: "Our customers kick ass." The comment reflects announcements that Infor is extending its core strategy by adding solutions tied closely to its customers' digital business transformation. Infor itself is undergoing a transformation designed to maintain relevance as the market changes. During a private conversation with the company's President, Duncan Angove, he explained Infor is thinking of potential sources of disruption to its own business: "We want to disrupt ourselves before someone else does."