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Automation has been making human workers superfluous for centuries, but until recently, workers whose jobs required high-level cognitive skills have been able to rest easy, confident no machine could possibly replace them when it came to making nuanced decisions based on the evaluation of complicated, sometimes contradictory data. By Khal Rai, Senior Vice President, Product Development & Operations, SRS Health

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Accounts Payable Automation solutions enable you to scan, classify, and index paper documents as well as electronic invoices. EMC and partners offer Accounts Payable Automation solutions that help to improve the entire accounts payable process.
Pocket™ “Tablet” is Nurture’s new mobile workstation specifically designed to support the active work of healthcare professionals by accommodating both the demands of the task at hand as well as emerging portable tablet technology like the iPad, Xoom and Playbook.
DICOM medical imaging SDK
  • Create and view DICOM files
  • Support both still image and video files
  • Scanning and compression, including PDF
  • Viewing, annotation, and printing
Enterprise Resource Planning has been the ultimate solution to many sectors and healthcare is no exception. Hospitals require more connectivity because the information to be passed is vital and will not serve the purpose if it does not reach in time.
With rich feature sets and extensive model options, the Gryphon™ product series from Datalogic Scanning represents the premium level of data collection equipment for general purpose applications.
Confidential information abounds in healthcare, so healthcare providers must ensure that their records are easy and efficient to obtain, yet secure from unauthorized access.

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    The challenges facing healthcare during COVID-19 are more than biological. Already on the ropes due to the coronavirus, healthcare providers are weathering a perfect storm, as hackers take advantage of the commotion and ramp up their attack frequency and sophistication.

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