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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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  • 6 Challenges Tech Has Brought To Healthcare (And How To Avoid Them)
    12/19/2019

    Technology has changed the way industry professionals approach the idea of healthcare. While many of these innovations are positive — facilitating patient care and ensuring traditional treatments are more effective — they also present some unique challenges. Why? Because this technology is something the industry has never seen before.

  • How Visual Analytics Can Boost Health System Revenue
    12/9/2016

    In healthcare, the term Big Data doesn’t really capture the immensity of information being gathered and shared. For example, the HCA enterprise data warehouse now contains more than 28 petabytes of data. By Rochell Pierce, senior vice president of market development, Aegis Health Group

  • How Augmented Reality Can Help Doctors And Patients
    4/24/2018

    Realizing the great value of AR for in-patients and health professionals, we list some of the features that augmented reality apps for hospital care can include.

  • The Budding Healthcare IT Spring
    3/12/2012
    The basic healthcare delivery system is changing, and three pillars for profound and irreversible change within the industry have been expressed by some of the industry leaders. By Rick Dakin, CEO, co-founder and chief security strategist, Coalfire Systems
  • The Benefits Of IT Convergence In Healthcare
    1/21/2011

    This article explores how network convergence can help hospitals reduce costs, while boosting patient care and service levels. By Rod Sampson, director of marketing, Belden

  • How Can Marrying Healthcare And AI Solve Its Mystery Of Rising Care Costs?
    6/20/2019

    Healthcare is one of the fastest-growing segments of the digital universe, with data volumes expected to grow by 48 percent annually. Healthcare applications will be the principal driver of this data growth, with EHR penetration in the U.S. already reaching over 80 percent and expected to reach 95 percent by 2020.

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