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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.

To maximize asset utilization from IV pumps to portable emergency equipment, hospitals and clinics need to be able to find and rapidly deploy these assets to maintain top quality care.

Risk Assessment Manager provides everything you need to expose areas of risk within your healthcare organization and respond quickly and appropriately. Integrated, Web-based tools save time and lower the costs of risk management in healthcare.
Alarm Lock’s Trilogy access locks are an easy, inexpensive solution to meeting your client’s healthcare and privacy requirements. Our advanced access control locks are less than half the price of a wired system and are BHMA Grade 1 Certified to stand up against the test of time. Trilogy’s scalable access solution performs flawlessly in high-traffic areas, supporting 100 to 2,000 individual users and meets JHACO/CoPs/CMS regulations hands down.
The Ultra Phoenix is an integrated state-of-the-art touch-screen computer-based nurse call system.
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.

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  • Participation Powers Healthy Changes: Proven Group-Based Intervention
    1/24/2018

    Health systems urgently need to manage chronic diseases as 86 percent of each U.S healthcare dollar goes to chronic disease related care. Astoundingly, chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. New York based Off The Scale Health has combined the best technology with the best of group-based intervention to address the epidemic in a new and novel way.

  • 3 Simple Scheduling Tricks To Steal From The Business World
    3/21/2018

    Unfortunately, healthcare technology is at least a decade behind the rest of the professional world. For the most part, healthcare systems rely on a combination of manual, paper-based processes and disparate systems that do not communicate in real-time. Nowhere is this more evident than in scheduling techniques. While businesses have made an art of productivity and schedule optimization, many clinical settings are plagued with scrambled schedules and inefficient calendar models.

  • DeKalb Medical Center Secures Patient Data With Proofpoint
    11/15/2009
    As a medical center, DeKalb Medical Center is very sensitive about patient privacy. Recently, the organization conducted an audit of its data security and determined that outbound email was a high-risk area for protected health information (PHI) to leave the enterprise. As a first step, the medical center needed to secure its outbound email stream to ensure that PHI was not being sent out unencrypted. By Proofpoint
  • A Focus On The User Experience: Unlocking The Full Potential Of Your Patient Portal
    12/3/2018

    For many healthcare practices, having an online portal provides an easy way for patients to access their health information and receive online payments. But a patient portal has the potential to be so much more, delivering a wide range of benefits for patients and practices alike.

  • Achieving A PACS Neutral Archive
    7/14/2010
    What is a PACS-Neutral Archive? Why should one consider a PACS-Neutral Archive? How does an organization achieve a PACS-Neutral Archive? This paper will answer these questions and discuss the challenges and nuances related to achieving this goal.
  • Clinique Esquirol Saint Hilaire Streamlines Its Clinician And Patient Care Processes
    5/11/2011
    In France, the contrat de bon usage du médicament (CBUM) promotes the computerization of medical practices. By Motion Computing, Inc.

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