Robot ‘Personal Assistants’ Could Become Your New Best Friend
You may not have unwrapped a robot on Christmas, but your new year will be filled with artificial intelligence. Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies, large and small, are making rapid advancements with virtual personal assistants that can solve problems and even complete tasks. “We’re going to start to see more personal assistants, and the ones that are already online will get more useful,” said Brian Blau, an...
Apprenticeship Stories: ‘It Has Changed My Life’
An incomplete transcript. A layoff notice. For Ashley Williams and Charina Canete, the adversity they experienced in summer 2014 became, as the saying goes, the seed of opportunity. Today, Williams and Canete are medical assistants at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center who can look back at the bad news they received as opening the door to a new career with good pay, benefits and unlimited career growth potential. They were among the...
Cover Story: Build Your Own Workforce
A perfect storm was brewing at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center — hundreds of job openings to fill, few qualified applicants to fill them, many current employees nearing retirement — and the gathering tempest was raising concerns about patient care. “At Heater Road, we had to shut down to new patients for some time last year because we did not have the ability to get patients through fast or efficiently enough,” said Barbara...
