Tech's Unceasing Influence on Information Exchange

Let's consider the ongoing, repeating impact of new tech on how we develop, integrate and share information.

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About 25 years ago I was doing a job that looked like I’d be doing the same thing over and over again, every day, for the rest of my career. So, I took a leap and got into the technology space. I had no experience coding, not even macros. I feared them.

I was handed an opportunity by a small consulting firm to help them solve a problem for one of their clients. The client was a pop-up business designed to support behind the scenes work in the big Dow Chemical lawsuit. I don’t recall the details, but this company had to staff medical professionals, legal professionals, and about 80 scribes that combined multiple document inputs from these two groups into a single database record. It was laborious and the management wanted to figure out how to speed it up, make it more accurate, and reduce their costs.