Customer experience is entering the sci-fi age: knowing and understanding customers on an individual level, providing personalized service, and dedicated moments. All of this is becoming possible thanks to technological innovation. And as it shifts, we're moving beyond the age of reactive service, where customer satisfaction was measured by stale, bi-annual surveys. We're entering an era of proactive, predictive customer care.
This is where alert fatigue sets in. DevOps and SRE teams working with cloud workloads, microservices, and rapid deployments see hundreds of alerts triggered every day. Many are duplicates, some are irrelevant, and only a handful actually point to issues that demand attention. Result? When every alert screams 'critical', nothing feels urgent. Engineers spend hours triaging false positives, and important signals risk being buried. That delay directly increases mean time to resolution (MTTR), which ultimately means frustrated customers and financial loss for the business.
CMS announced the start of the "Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off Competition" on Aug. 19, calling it "a market-based research challenge" to identify emerging technologies that can "detect anomalies and trends in Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) claims data that can be translated into novel indicators of fraud." The agency said it is "prioritizing the use of innovative, data-driven approaches, including explainable AI/ML" that can analyze large datasets to "uncover unusual patterns, anomalies, or trends that may signal fraudulent activity."
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