Colombia's health system administrator ADRES, partnering with AI services provider Blend360, has launched PAACME to automate medical claims auditing for traffic accident victims. The system uses Claude AI models on Amazon Bedrock to process claims from clinics and hospitals treating victims of accidents involving uninsured vehicles, as well as terrorist incidents and natural disasters. PAACME reduced audit processing times by 96%, from five hours to 5-10 minutes per case, whilst cutting costs by 75%. The AI achieved 87% accuracy in medical components. ADRES aims to reduce overall claims processing from over four months to under two weeks. In 2025, ADRES paid COP 702 billion in related claims, with healthcare providers submitting 432,234 new claims worth over COP 1.07 trillion.

Andrés Barrantes of Blend360 at ANDICOM 2026: AI That doesn't generate measurable value isn't strategy - it's cost. 07 Aug 2026 Blend360's SVP LATAM comes to Cartagena with real-world cases, practical methodologies, and a question every organization should already be answering. Twenty years turning AI from vision into business execution. Andrés Barrantes is Senior Vice President and LATAM Region Head at Blend360, a global company specializing in artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and technology engineering. His journey began with the founding of nuvu, a Colombian technology company that, under his leadership, achieved AWS Premier Partner status, placing it among the top 3% of AWS partners worldwide in cloud and AI competencies. That achievement reflects much more than technical expertise. Barrantes has not only spoken about digital transformation - he has designed, implemented, and scaled it across organizations in public safety, financial services, education, and digital government. His work includes predictive systems that optimize resource allocation for law enforcement agencies, large-scale analytics platforms that support strategic decision-making, and AI solutions that have delivered measurable improvements in revenue collection and operational efficiency. Recognized by Revista Gerente as one of Colombia's 100 Most Successful Executives, Barrantes combines executive leadership, technical expertise, and a results-driven approach. AI That Creates Value: from ROI to competitive advantage. The session Barrantes brings to ANDICOM 2026 addresses one of the most challenging questions facing AI initiatives today: how can organizations determine whether AI is truly delivering business value? AI That Creates Value: How to Turn Data Into Revenue, Efficiency, and a Competitive Edge explores this challenge through three measurable business dimensions: revenue growth, cost optimization, and competitive differentiation, supported by real-world cases that demonstrate how each can be measured and scaled. One of the session's key contributions is a practical methodology for measuring return on investment (ROI) in AI initiatives - helping organizations determine when an AI project is creating value, when it is not, and which indicators should guide investment decisions before additional resources are committed. The session also examines some of the most common pitfalls in AI adoption, including implementing technology without a clearly defined business challenge, while offering practical recommendations for launching initiatives that deliver measurable impact from the very beginning. Andrés Barrantes understands the challenge of scaling AI because he has spent two decades solving it. This September, he joins ANDICOM 2026. ANDICOM 2026 · September 1-4 · Cartagena, Colombia

Blend Recognized for Leadership in AI-Driven Decisioning with Customer Decision Hub Award at PegaWorld 2026. PR Newswire Today at 8:30am PDT NEW YORK, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Blend360, a premier AI services provider, has been honored with the Customer Decision Hub Award from Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company(TM). The award, announced at the PegaWorld Partner Summit on June 7, recognizes Blend's ability to turn first-party data into intelligent, real-time customer engagement using Pega Customer Decision Hub(TM)(CDH). Blend Recognized with Customer Decision Hub Award at PegaWorld 2026 for Leadership in AI-Driven Decisioning Today's consumers expect every interaction to feel like it was designed for them. Meeting that expectation at scale across channels, products, and the full customer lifecycle is where many enterprises stall. Blend's Decisioning Tools & Systems team closes that gap - combining AI, real-time decisioning, and 1:1 engagement expertise to help enterprises operationalize CDH, lift retention, and drive revenue. "Congratulations to Blend for receiving the Customer Decision Hub Award for excellence in delivering personalized, contextual, and relevant customer experiences. This achievement highlights their exceptional expertise in leveraging Pega's powerful capabilities to drive transformational customer experiences that lead to increased satisfaction and customer retention at leading enterprises. Together, we are committed to empowering our customers to continue to transform their businesses, using enterprise-grade AI to advance their ability to innovate, grow, and add value where it matters most. We look forward to our continued collaboration." Dan Kasun, Global Head of Partner Ecosystem, Pega Blend is at the forefront of defining how Pega CDH fits into the broader agentic personalization landscape, drawing on over 15 years of operationalizing the platform for large, complex enterprises and now extending that foundation into AI-driven, agentic customer engagements. Over the past year, the team has helped enterprise clients deploy and scale next-best-action programs that lift conversion, retention, and lifetime value while reducing the total cost of ownership of their omnichannel marketing stack. The Customer Decision Hub Award recognizes the depth of those engagements as well as Blend's leadership in shaping where deterministic decisioning meets agentic AI. "This award means a lot to our team. We're working with some of the world's largest, most complex enterprises to bring rigor and reliability into a moment that's getting more agentic by the day. When we get that right, every customer interaction becomes a real-time conversation, and the business sees it in stronger engagement, retention, and revenue." Steve Ashe, SVP Decisioning Tools & Systems, Blend As a 1:1 Customer Engagement Specialized Pega Partner, Blend brings a team of certified Pega architects, decisioning consultants, and data scientists with a track record across financial services, insurance, automotive, media, telecommunications, and healthcare. The Customer Decision Hub Award follows Blend's recognition with the 2023 Client Innovation in 1:1 Customer Engagement Award from Pegasystems. Blend360 is a premier data science solutions provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence. The company is dedicated to unlocking growth and fostering innovation, paving the way to value for its clients by harnessing world-class talent and a data-driven strategy. By blending in, Blend360 ensures its clients stand out, making the world a better place through the transformative potential of data science. For more information, visit www.blend360.com. SOURCE Blend360 This is a paid placement. For further inquiries, please contact PR Newswire directly.