Detecting and analyzing patient insights from social media enables healthcare givers to better understand what patients want and also to identify their pain points. Healthcare institutions cannot neglect the need to monitor and analyze popular social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook. To have a study success, a healthcare giver needs to be able to engage with their patients and adapt to their preferences effectively. However, data-driven decision-making is no longer enough, as the best-in-class organizations struggle to realize tangible benefits from their data-driven analytics investments. Relying on simplistic textual analytics that use big data technologies to learn consumer/patient insights is no longer sufficient as most of these analytics utilize sort of bag-of-words counting algorithms. The majority of projects utilizing big data analytics have failed due to the obsession with metrics at the expense of capturing the customer's perspective data, as well as the failure in turning consumer insights into actions. Most of the consumer insights can be captured with qualitative research methods that work with small, even statistically insignificant, sample sizes. Employing qualitative analytics provide some kind of actionable intelligence which acquires understanding to broad questions about the consumer needs in tandem with analytical power. Generating insight, on one hand, requires sound techniques to measure consumers' engagement more precisely and offers depth analytics to the consumer data story. On the other hand, turning relevant insights into actions requires incorporating actionable intelligence across the business by verify hypotheses based on qualitative findings by using web analytics to see if these axioms apply to a large number of customers. The first component of our visionary approach is dedicated to identifying the relationships between constituents of the healthcare pain points as echoed by the social media conversation in terms of sociographic network where the elements composing these conversations are described as nodes and their interactions as links. In this part, conversation groups of nodes that are heavily connected will be identified representing what we call conversation communities. By identifying these conversation communities several consumer hidden insights can be inferred from using techniques such as visualizing conversation graphs relevant to given pain point, conversation learning from question answering, conversations summaries, conversation timelines, conversation anomalies and other conversation pattern learning techniques. These techniques will identify and learn the patient insights without forgetting from the context of conversation communities, are tagged as “thick data analytics”. Additionally machine learning methods can be used as assistive techniques to learn from the identified thick data and build models around identified thick data. With the use of transfer learning we also can fine tune these models with the arrival of new conversations. The author is currently experimenting with these seven insights driven learning methods described in this paper with massive geo-located Twitter data to infer the quality of care related to the current COVID-19 outbreak.

Reports on the concept of the Internet of Everything (IoE). IoE is a notion for intelligently connecting people, processes, and data in one uniform way, enabling communications between machines (M2M), machine-topeople and technology- assisted peopleto- people interactions. IoE is expected to reinvent the business and the automation wheel all-together. From processes, models to business and manufacturing frameworks everything is expected to change with the change in data available and the smart connectivity between people and machines for critical decision making. It is bringing productivity and competitiveness to higher levels along with opening up many doors to new and exciting opportunities. IoE expands on the concept of the “Internet of Things” by connecting devices and people in one network. This connection goes beyond the basic M2Mcommunications to enable a democratization of skill and how it is being delivered globally. An integral part of this is to be able to transmit touch in perceived real-time,which is enabled by suitable robotics and haptics equipment at the edges, along with an unprecedented communications network capabilities.

It is argued that digitalization and the implementation of extreme automation as inspired by the Industry 4.0 will bring fundamental changes to industrial production and necessitate new products, solutions, and concepts. Robotization is the new reality that is going to change the manufacturing sector as well as our life. Robots are becoming smarter and cost-effective with time. Today a business may own few classical robots, but the day is not far when the significant parts of an industry would be managed by the new generation of robots. However, the main question that everyone asks is that we want robots to make our lives easier and safer, yet we do not want them to control our life and cause catastrophic loss of jobs. The challenge is to strike a balance between our fears and the benefits of such innovative technology, which can offer the enhancement to our life quality. This column has touched the surface of this exciting topic and we are encouraging you to contribute to this column by writing to the editor of this column via email.