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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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OSi began a decade ago as a group of transcription industry experts saw the need to offer hospitals and large clinics the resources and technology to help combat rising transcription volumes and escalating costs.
4medica, the leading independent provider of Web-based connectivity between physicians and clinical laboratories, recently announced the launch of its Integrated Health Record (IHR), which includes modular components designed to enable hospitals and eligible providers to demonstrate "meaningful use" and qualify for federal government incentives in 2011.
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The Intermec SR61T handheld scanner family meets the needs of rugged applications in warehouse, distribution and industrial manufacturing, and also supports proof of delivery and point of service applications.

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.
Perhaps more than in any other industry, healthcare organizations are being forced to re-examine their business processes. Rising costs, ongoing provider consolidation, and the need for HIPAA compliance solutions are all driving healthcare organizations to find new ways to improve operational efficiencies, increase productivity, and reduce expenses.

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    The use of electronic health records (EHRs) is supposed to be making healthcare safer and more efficient. Many experts and clinicians say digital patient records are instead compromising safety, lowering efficiency, burdening clinicians and straining maxed-out IT infrastructures.

  • The Risks Of Myopic Medical Device Management
    6/14/2019

    The National Eye Institute (part of the NIH, or NIH) has ample evidence that spending too much time in front of a computer screen can lead to myopia, a condition impairs one’s ability to see the full picture clearly and ultimately will lead to eye strain and headaches. This same analogy applies to managing medical devices when healthcare staff spend too much time trying to treat them solely as physical assets or simple computers. This approach will create headaches for compliance and security officers.

  • How Hybrid Tech Models Will Enable Healthcare To Outmaneuver Uncertainty
    6/25/2020

    Digital transformation has been underway in healthcare for the better part of a decade, and until a few months ago it was a slow-moving transition for many organizations. But that all changed recently with many forced to make rapid pivots (some overnight), and healthcare leaders learned speed is not only possible but necessary if they are to achieve transformation and thrive in the face of uncertainty going forward.

  • Why Healthcare Should Provide Treatment Cost Information
    1/3/2018

    As part of revenue cycle management, patient financials — the ability to discuss treatment costs at the time of service and helping patients understand why visits cost what they do — is crucial and a growing challenge in healthcare IT. Savvy healthcare consumers are demanding more information about all aspects of their medical care and are especially interested in obtaining up-front information about costs in an effort to mitigate increasing premiums and high deductibles.

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  • Case Study: Vanguard Urologic Institute Reduces Patient Wait Times Via Self-Service
    1/18/2011
    This case study highlights how a self-service kiosk registration solution allowed Vanguard Urologic Institute to reduce average patient wait times to 2 minutes, versus the national average of 21.3 minutes.

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