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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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4medica, the leading independent provider of Web-based connectivity between physicians and clinical laboratories, recently announced the launch of its Integrated Health Record (IHR), which includes modular components designed to enable hospitals and eligible providers to demonstrate "meaningful use" and qualify for federal government incentives in 2011.
Web 2.0 is profoundly changing the way we work and interact. More than 90 of the top 100 Web sites are categorized as social networking or search sites, supporting dynamic or user-generated content. Many organizations are embracing the Web as a business platform, but Web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and RSS feeds, render traditional security technologies such as antivirus, Web reputation, and basic URL filtering ineffective.

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FEATURED CONTENT

  • Healthcare Providers Must Protect Patient Data In 2020: Here's Why
    2/18/2020

    Quality healthcare is predicated on a simple principle: first, do no harm. The Hippocratic Oath serves as the sector’s centuries-old lodestar that ensures that doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers are always working toward a singular goal of promoting positive patient health outcomes.

  • Patient Relationship Management: Taking Care To The Next Level
    11/28/2016

    When patients quit coming back to a practice, it is often for different reasons than providers assume. By Josh Weiner, Chief Operating Officer, Solutionreach

  • Leveraging Mobile To Bring Caregivers Back To The Patient Bedside
    6/25/2014

    On any given day, nurses are caregivers, psychiatrists, comforters, teachers, and friends. In fact, the critically important role nurses play in the patient recovery process is difficult to define – and hard to imagine doing without. It is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

  • 3 Cloud Security Trends And Challenges You Need To Be Aware Of
    4/19/2017

    As more healthcare organizations implement mobile devices and increase their digital storage options, cloud is likely to become a core technology for the healthcare industry. Indeed, cloud options such as cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) can address the key needs of medical organizations: facilitating mobility and providing patients with faster and more efficient care. However, in the light of major healthcare breaches (such as those at Anthem Inc. and Premera Blue Cross), the discussion about security in the cloud and the potential impact of cloud on data privacy and protection becomes quite intense.

  • Three Reasons To Consider Taking That Health Care IT Job
    5/23/2013

    Current health care industry trends show a movement towards health care IT to provide adequate services to the growing number of patients and to keep costs low. Here are three reasons to make the jump from corporate office to health care IT.

  • Seeding The Cloud: Who Really Needs Infrastructure-as-a-Service?
    9/12/2017

    If you’re a small or midsize medical office – a clinic, a hospital, a medical practice – you should of course be mindful of IT. But you need to keep your mind on your patients. By Adam Stern, founder and CEO, Infinitely Virtual

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