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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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This kit will give the DVO1000MD an audio narration feature enabling an audio track to be record onto a DVD as video is being recorded. This feature can later be used for review, training and to satisfy legal concerns. The kit contains a Rane Microphone Amplifier, Sony ECM-673 Microphone, XLR/RCA Adapter, XLR Male to XLR Female Cable and RCA/RCA Y Cable.
For years TEKLYNX bar code software has been working behind the scenes in healthcare, helping the industry that helps others. From medication labels to patient ID tracking to inventory control, TEKLYNX software solutions provide the reliability and security necessary when working with critical healthcare data.
Modernizing health IT is a key focus for economic recovery - governments around the world are funding strategic stimulus initiatives for IT investment in healthcare, such as the American Recovery & Reinvestment (ARRA) HITECH Act 2009.

The Intermec SG20 is an affordable, high performance family of handheld scanners available in tethered or cordless models. Designed to the needs of healthcare, the SG20 helps to ensure that patient safety standards are consistently met.

With StatCom’s Hospital Operating System™ hospitals achieve very real and demonstrable patient throughput gains in less than one year on the order of $3 to $11M depending upon their size and throughput improvement opportunity.
BariAnalytics EMR is specially constructed for bariatrics providers and dietitians with extreme analytical capabilities for predictive analysis. BariAnalytics EMR is a SaaS-based solution, providing access anywhere, at any time. It not only stores patient data electronically but also facilitates improving the provider/patient relationship.

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    DICOM has been used in healthcare institutions from pole to pole for more than twenty years. Now it resides upon the medical imaging throne since this standard is supported by virtually all medical imaging devices.

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