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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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Delivering high-quality care may be the number one priority for healthcare providers, but reducing costs is always an imperative. The key to this is finding ways to streamline processes, eliminate inefficiency, increase productivity, and improve decision-making, thereby allowing physicians and staff to spend more time on patient-focused activities.
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.
Web Based EMR and Practice Management System Completely Customized for an Allergy and Immunology Practice. Waiting Room Solutions offers award-winning eletronic medical record (EMR) and practice management solutions designed to help Allergy and Immunology practices enhance efficiently, profitability, and patient care.
The Accounts Receivable module efficiently tracks customers, manages invoices, processes receipts and prints statements.

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.

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.

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  • Solving Nurse Allocation Issues: How AI Effectively Prepares Infusion Centers
    8/20/2019

    Louis Pasteur famously said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” In highly specialized environments such as infusion centers, which are unpredictable by nature, it often seems impossible to adequately prepare. Scheduling is highly complex, wait times are long, and nurses are usually rushed. Burnout and job dissatisfaction are systemic, and as a result, the patient care experience is suboptimal. Yet, new technologies make it possible to reduce uncertainties, adapt to change, and fuel a new level of preparedness that tips chance heavily in favor of patients and staff while enabling centers to function efficiently.

  • 5 Steps For Healthcare Compliance
    6/23/2016

    Despite the advances in technology, many healthcare firms are still heavily reliant on manual processes. As a result, about 56 percent of all healthcare expenses go to paying healthcare worker wages. However, healthcare firms are beginning to integrate more modern tools like digital records management solutions. To engage with younger customer bases, many firms are also turning to communications channels like social media. These changes to become more digitally oriented are helping healthcare firms remain competitive as the technology landscape evolves.

  • Navigating The Patient Engagement Equation
    4/29/2016

    There’s a new sense of urgency in the healthcare community when it comes to expanding patient engagement, and for good reason. Evidence continues to quantify the strong link between more involved patients and improved outcomes. In addition, expanded patient engagement is essential to a provider’s financial viability under a pay-for-performance model.

  • Living With Big Data: A 360° View Of Patients
    4/28/2016

    The digital revolution in healthcare is well under way. As physicians have been more apt to use electronic medical records (EMRs) and pharma companies and medical researchers are now using electronic databases to hold and protect their data, healthcare holds and manages some of the most complex and contextually rich data sets of any industry. However, using that data to its fullest capacity to make intelligent clinical decisions at the point of care continues to be a pain point facing hospitals and health systems.

  • GAO Report On Privacy And Security: A Wake-Up Call For HHS?
    12/6/2016

    Latest cyber-attacks show it’s time to mandate adoption of identity management, cybersecurity practices to better protect PHI. By Michael Magrath, Director of Business Development, Healthcare, VASCO Data Security

  • GDPR Vs. HIPAA — Noting The Differences
    12/15/2017

    If you are in the United Kingdom or anywhere in the European Union, you may have already started working towards GDPR compliance. The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is a set of compliance requirements that comes into effect in May 2018 and will apply to any organization that deals with data provided by citizens of the European Union. In other words, this ruling can apply to your organization even if you are based outside the EU but handle data pertaining to patients from the EU.

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