Author: Anita M. Harris

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Art collector to share his vision at Lacoste starting Feb 3, 2018, Concord, MA

Cambridge writer, photographer, consultant and art lover Anita Harris plans to attend the opening of “Through the Eyes of a Collector,”at the  Lacoste Gallery, in Concord, Ma.T he exhibit offers an insight into the art collecting practices of Steve Alpert, an avid ceramic art lover and collector who has been a board member of MFA Boston, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Contemporary Art, Chair of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.

Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part I

At a recent MIT/Sloan Management School conference on Health Systems Innovation, MIT-Sloan Professor Retzef Levi laid out problems besetting a troubled US health care system. He emphasizing the need to “sow seeds now”  for a “visionary, futuristic system”  to reduce future illness–and health care costs. The conference featured experts from health, science, business and industrial fields who described promising technologies and roadblocks to change. Part I in this series of blogs describes some current and potential uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning–including IBM’s Watson. Part II lays out potential solutions in health care delivery and long term care. Part III focuses on issues and efforts in behavioral and population health–and roadblocks to change.