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HTO Robot Nurse Will Robots Replace Healthcare Providers?

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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  • Telehealth Technology Eliminating Barriers, Enhancing Practice Revenue
    12/28/2016

    With patient telehealth access jumping 50 percent since 2013, the industry appears to be moving toward virtual care becoming a common, if not expected, method of healthcare delivery. Tom Toperczer, director of product management for Brother OmniJoin

  • How to Approach Healthcare IT And Compliance: A Brief Tutorial On ISO 27799
    12/16/2014

    It’s been said time and again: healthcare regulations are a virtual alphabet/number soup. Entire books can be written about HIPAA regulations alone, so we’ll leave those aside for now. ISO 27001, ISO 27002, and ISO 27799 are only a few of the regulations required to protect individuals’ healthcare data. Noncompliance doesn’t only risk data loss, it also means you can incur large fines, individual, and class action lawsuits with massive punitive damages – and even be shut down. By Roy Peretz, VP of Product Management, Whitebox Security

  • Data Analytics – The Hidden Gem In Helping To Combat The Opioid Epidemic
    10/24/2018

    The opioid epidemic continues to threaten the public’s health, wellbeing, and ultimately, its wallet. There is no one path to avert this crisis, but industry stakeholders have a unique opportunity to come together and leverage new technology and tools to identify, mitigate and manage current and future situations of opioid abuse. So how can Big Data and analytics help healthcare reduce health risks and stop fraud, waste and abuse? It starts by identifying and evaluating the entities who contribute to potential risk, or who are at risk, within the various stages of the healthcare ecosystem.

  • Build A Case For Telehealth By Showing Patient Demand, Quality Care, And Better Pay
    9/26/2017

    The telehealth technology adoption rate has been gradual among healthcare organizations, increasingly only about 3.5 percent per year from 2014 to 2016. By Gary Sibley, vice president at Brother

  • Automated Care Management: What The Future Of Healthcare Beholds?
    4/23/2019

    Building a sustainable model for care delivery is not a tough nut to crack as long as organizations have the right approach. If healthcare leaders can adapt to the constantly changing needs of providers and payers alike, they can steer their organizations toward a better future.

  • Beyond The Patient Portal: Drive Patient Engagement Through Data-Driven Point-Of-Care Technology
    6/27/2017

    Despite industry emphasis on patient engagement in recent years and research showing its association with better outcomes and lower costs, engagement continues to be a challenge to many providers. In fact, a 2016 survey of healthcare executives found 54 percent of respondents believed less than a quarter of their patients were highly engaged. By Joe Guerriero, senior vice president of MDGuidelines at ReedGroup

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