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How Marketplaces Fill The Global Covid-19 Talent Gap

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Freelancers worldwide found themselves impacted by the new coronavirus as it shuttered businesses and stalled payments, with many gig workers now fulfilling critical roles to keep society moving as consumers retreat inside of their homes. Around The Gig Economy Payments World. About The Tracker.

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CES 2020 Opens The Door On A New Decade

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If it’s not the holiest of holies for those involved in payments and commerce, it sure comes reasonably close. In short, CES will help set the payments and commerce agenda for 2020 and likely beyond. PYMNTS keeps taking a deeper focus on uses and potential use cases of artificial intelligence (AI) in payments and commerce.

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Good Healthcare Requires Good Data — And Blockchain And Biometrics, Too?

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Not only that, but healthcare is infinitely more complicated than it was in the 19th-century Doc Baker days — thanks to scientific advances and the collection, analysis and use of sophisticated patient data. Proper care, consumer and insurance payments flow, and fraud prevention all depend on those factors. Healthcare Friction.

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How Will CES Set The 2019 Payments And Commerce Agenda?

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What follows is a look at some of the most important topics in the worlds of payments and commerce, and how they will be treated and discussed at the upcoming CES. CES helps sets the payments and commerce agenda for the coming year. A reasonable sense of that comes from the published program. Autonomous Vehicles.

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Microsoft Joins Offensive Against Major Botnet

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Victims attacked with Trickbot also have included municipalities and healthcare systems. Payment systems also have become an increasingly common target of ransomware , which freezes computer systems and usually can only be deactivated by the perpetrators who caused it to be installed.

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Healthcare Payments’ ’30 Pct Of The 30 Pct’ Problem

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Much has changed in healthcare over the last decade. We could go on (and on) about the changes toward the better, but when it comes to payments, among the changes that are less palatable — indeed, at times a bitter pill to swallow — has been the rise of the self-pay patient, carrying the self-pay receivable. More Comes Out Of Pocket.

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Virtual Cards Run Into Payroll Card-Like Legal Troubles

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The debate involves virtual cards and their use by insurers to pay healthcare providers. The Georgia Dental Association and the Medical Association of Georgia, along with groups representing pharmacists, hospitals and other healthcare providers, all backed the legislation, according to reports. The rules become effective Jan.