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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

PRODUCTS TO SEE AT HIMSS14

The powerful SpeechMike Barcode with integrated Barcode Scanner allows you to attach patient or client information to your dictations and securely allocate the data to the relevant file.
Healthcare organizations worldwide trust IBM Cognos software to help them drive operational efficiencies and reduce costs, improve the quality of care they deliver, and support innovative clinical research.
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.
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.
The Misys Connect Exchange Portal is a core element of a community solution that provides clinicians and other members of the care team with the right information at the right time by making patient information available across organizational boundaries and venues of care.

To maximize asset utilization from IV pumps to portable emergency equipment, hospitals and clinics need to be able to find and rapidly deploy these assets to maintain top quality care.

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  • Improving Healthcare's $6 Billion Patient Matching Problem
    3/19/2019

    Organizations need unprecedented clarity and reliability into one’s medical record to avoid redundant or unnecessary tests and procedures, erroneous reporting and analytics, billing inaccuracies, administrative burdens, denied claims and lost revenue. A single, comprehensive view of patient information is essential for informed clinical-decision making, effective episodic care and cost management, and a seamless provider and patient experience during every encounter.    

  • Coping With Crisis: The Benefits Of Cloud And Mobile Communications In Emergencies
    9/15/2020

    In the digital age, communication has grown into a far more complex and multi-faceted concept than anything we ever knew before. Companies are expected to respond to clients day or night, and people expect prompt replies on virtually every platform, from voice through to text messaging.

  • CDI Should Be A Top Priority
    3/22/2016

    I had the interesting experience not too long ago of speaking with someone in the financial world who apparently thought himself an expert in healthcare information technology. We were discussing the relative merits of clinical documentation improvement (CDI). I confess that my mind had started to wander as I was trying to recall who said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”

  • Does The Cybersecurity Act Of 2015 Help Or Hurt?
    3/7/2016

    There was a lot of talk about the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, but does Section 405: Improving Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry really do enough? While the bill is a start to helping the healthcare industry lower cybersecurity risks, the improvements passed may not do enough to protect us from the compromise of sensitive information.

  • Comparing Surgeon Site Of Service Data For Procedures To Reduce Overall Medical Costs
    7/11/2017

    As healthcare organizations wring out wasteful spending, reducing cost variations of surgical procedures is one area being closely scrutinized. By Matt Waltrich, RemitDATA

  • 5 Ways To Master UX In Fintech App Development
    2/10/2020

    The success of any mobile application will always lie with the satisfaction of the end user. Surprisingly, many apps have launched and failed because they could not create a product that catered to their customer’s needs. As we usher in a  new decade, millennials lead the way in mobile adoption, as institutions are having to rethink their approach and cater not only to a generation who values tradition over humanization, but also a demographic who favors connection, convenience, and rewards.

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