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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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  • How HITRUST Gives Healthcare Organization Executives An Inherent Advantage
    10/5/2017

    Because healthcare organizations have a great deal of patients’ personal information, including credit card data, insurance details, and sensitive medical information, they are an appealing target for hackers. By Jenifer Rees, Principal Quality Engineering Consultant and Andrew Hosch, security and development groups, Base2 Solutions

  • Case Study: University Hospital Of Leipzig Optimizes Care With Mobility Solutions
    8/12/2009
    The University Hospital of Leipzig has closed the last gap in the use of the Electronic Patient Files for inpatient treatment: their deployment at the bedside. By Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.
  • Privacy, Security, HIPAA Compliance And A $5 Billion Crime Scheme
    10/17/2014

    Utter the acronym HIPAA to people in the medical profession and you will get a variety of facial responses, none of which have been, in my experience, a smile of contentment. Indeed, HIPAA’s privacy and security rules are often grumbled about as being burdensome and restrictive. The rules are increasingly criticized as ineffective these days and people are asking: How can an entity be HIPAA compliant and still suffer a breach of protected health information? By Stephen Cobb, Senior Security Researcher, ESET

  • Self-Service Technology Improves Healthcare Revenue Cycle
    1/18/2011
    This case study highlights how Conifer Revenue Cycle Solutions and Tenet Healthcare Corporation increased cash flow by allowing patients to pay their bills via a secure Web portal.
  • Healthcare Doesn't Listen
    5/10/2016

    The headline that caught my eye read U.S. Healthcare Execs Prefer Site Metrics to Patient Feedback on Content Marketing. It appeared in an edition of eMarketer, the newsletter of a research firm that looks at all things digital.

  • Changing Patient Communications Preferences And The Race For Providers To Adapt
    6/15/2021

    The Japanese scholar Kakuzō Okakura once said, “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” Or to put it in more colloquial terms—change sucks, but it’s a part of life, so deal with it.

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