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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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In the midst of the Information Age we face the reality that ever more digital content is being created, stored and distributed, and there’s no end in sight. With as much as 90% of that data being unstructured, such as documents, spreadsheets, images and the like, storage as usual will not suffice in this new reality as organizations demand simpler, more affordable, scalable and reliable storage for digital content. The increasing demand requires a scale-out architecture that delivers infrastructure that supports private and public storage clouds and can seamlessly scale to meet evolving business needs.
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.
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.
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Biometrics have become more and more ubiquitous in our daily lives, from ATM machines to check out aisles at your local market, to personal electronics. Continuing innovations and improvements to the various biometric technologies have made them more accessible to consumers and businesses alike.

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  • 3 Ways Digital Innovation Is Reinventing Care Delivery
    9/21/2018

    Record investments in digital health startups are just one sign of the hunger for digital innovation in the healthcare industry, with $3.4 billion in digital health deals recorded in the first half of 2018 alone. Non-traditional investors are also taking bold action, including the recently announced $375 million invested by Google in Oscar Health. The momentum of such advancements is reinventing care delivery, with high-touch, high-tech patient touchpoints that deliver better value and outcomes.

  • Why Enterprise Analytics Should Be More Like A Book, Less Like A Spotify Playlist
    3/23/2020

    People like stories. We like to tell them. We like to read them. Enterprise analytics is the story of a healthcare organization. Just like the chapters in a book, enterprise analytics takes “readers” from the beginning to the end, from chapter to chapter without interruption. Whether organizations are ready, enterprise analytics is the future of healthcare: It can bring together data about finances, operations, medical assessments, the revenue cycle and more.

  • Guest Column: Outsourcing: A Healthy Approach To EHR Migration
    11/13/2009
    As part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, $1.2B is available to help hospitals and healthcare providers successfully install and use electronic health records (EHRs). However, even with financial incentives in place, adoption has been slow and providers – especially smaller to mid-sized practices – are struggling with the capital investment and ROI. By Mario DiSantis, Senior Vice President, Document Lifecycle Solutions, at HOV Services
  • Advances In mHealth: Remote Monitoring In Clinical Trials
    10/2/2017

    Remote monitoring – a key element of mHealth, where mobile solutions are used to deliver health – is becoming ubiquitous in the U.S. population. Some 60 percent of U.S. adults track their weight, diet, or exercise routine, and a recent Gartner forecast predicted that the overall wearable market would expand from 275 million devices in 2016 to 323 million devices in 2017. By Vincent Miller, Project Coordinator, Duke Clinical Research Institute

  • Looking To 2021: Why We Need To Focus On Virtual Care
    12/16/2020

    To say that 2020 has been a clunker is, well, the understatement of the year. Collectively speaking, most people around the world are more than happy to see the year overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic in their rearview mirror. For that reason, perhaps no new year in recent history has been as longingly anticipated as is 2021.

  • Geneva University Hospital Filling The Image Analysis Needs Of 15 Clinical Departments
    11/24/2009
    The physicians and surgeons at Geneva University Hospital had a frustrating problem. The Radiology Department had installed new imaging devices such as high-definition, multi-detector scanners and hybrid devices that combine PET and CT technology. By Apple Computer Inc.

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