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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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Modernizing health IT is a key focus for economic recovery - governments around the world are funding strategic stimulus initiatives for IT investment in healthcare, such as the American Recovery & Reinvestment (ARRA) HITECH Act 2009.
The Mindray DP-6600 Portable ultrasound adopts advanced digital beam-forming (DBF) and tissue speciality imaging (TSI) technologies, which has realized improvement on the quality of images. Meanwhile, broadband and multi-frequency transducers enable clinical application in a wider range. 256-frame CINE loop and 16-frame images storage are set as standard configurations. USB ports and DICOM 3.0 enhance the storage ability and facilitate the image transportation. The great performance of the DP-6600 will definitely increase the accuracy of the diagnosis, thus to benefit both of doctors and patients
Quantum's Scalar 24 is an outstanding value for IT departments that have outgrown autoloaders. A compact, two-drive library, the Scalar 24 combines mid-range library features and performance and ease of use.
The fundamental objective of MOSS (Misys Open Source Solutions) Health Information Exchange is the secure exchange of patient clinical data with authorized users to advance the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare delivery. Misys Connectâ„¢ Exchange leverages IHE technical profiles to exchange medical summary documents across various source systems. For provider organizations, communities, and state-level Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) or Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), these HIE Services enable an XDS.b (CCD, HITSP C32/C48 specifications) document (containing patient health information) to be shared regardless of the source system.
With StatCom’s Hospital Operating System™ hospitals achieve very real and demonstrable patient throughput gains in less than one year on the order of $3 to $11M depending upon their size and throughput improvement opportunity.
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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  • Technology Options For Healthcare Color Label & Wristband Printing
    10/14/2009
    Color has earned a permanent place in healthcare processes because it has proven to be an effective enhancement to labels, files, forms and wristbands. Selective, appropriate use of color can enhance patient safety by providing an extra visual reminder to differentiate potential lookalike or soundalike medications, highlight dosages, dietary restrictions, allergies and other alerts, and to easily identify specimens to streamline sorting and prioritize processing. Color on files, records, specimen labels, test orders, meal tickets and other documents also supports more efficient workflows. By Epson America, Inc.
  • Using CoCM to Close Care Gaps and Enable Better Outcomes
    4/29/2019

    Managing patients who need ongoing behavioral health services to treat anxiety, depression, substance-use disorders or other issues is getting harder. The good news? Tightly integrated care between PCPs and BH providers can help alleviate this problem. What’s even better? CMS now reimburses providers for collaborating.

  • HIT, AI, And Machine Learning: A Reality Check
    4/16/2019

    In the healthcare IT space, there are two buzzwords du jour: artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These concepts—which are often used interchangeably, but have distinct meanings—have been linked to everything from drastically changing future patient experiences (undoubtedly true) to completely replacing physicians with robots (not likely).

  • Mobile, Integrated Clinical Communications Delivers Needed Efficiencies Under Value-Based Payment Models
    2/23/2017

    The transition to value-based payment thus far has predominantly focused on preventive care, patient engagement, and other ways to improve care quality to keep patients out of the hospital. By Brad Brooks, Chief Executive Officer, TigerText

  • Case Study: 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
  • Next Generation House Calls: Technology Paves The Way For Rise In Home Health Care
    3/9/2016

    The Affordable Care Act has been the catalyst for seismic shifts in the healthcare landscape. The associated regulations pertaining to Medicare and Medicaid, value-based outcomes, discharge planning, and home health agencies have created both challenges and opportunities. One of the trends arising from these changes is an increase in home-based healthcare, which is being promoted as a more efficient and effective way to treat the growing elderly population as well as patients with disabilities and chronic conditions

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