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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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  • Guest Column: Are Nurse Call Systems Dead?
    7/19/2011
    CEO, Andrew Rothon, looks at the unprecedented fundamental challenge faced by the Healthcare Industry. That is; how to cope with ever-increasing patient numbers in the face of rising operational costs and tight budgets? It’s a challenge that will continue for the rest of this decade. By Andrew Rothan, CEO, Next Intelligence Health, Inc.(NIQ)
  • Private Practice Streamlines Clinician And Patient Care Processes With Tablet Computing
    5/19/2011
    This case study highlights how Clinique Esquirol Saint Hilaire was able to gain real-time access to procedural information, eliminate duplication of effort, and increase data security by deploying 85 tablet PCs across its 15 healthcare departments. By Motion Computing, Inc.
  • The Need for Eldercare Technology
    6/1/2015

    Eldercare is not a particularly sexy branch of the healthcare world, but it’s increasingly becoming more important. The senior population in the U.S. is booming – census data shows that the 65-plus population will exceed 79 million in 2030. And as the senior population continues to grow, the health of seniors continues to decrease as compared to prior generations. All this begs the question: How can we handle caring for seniors in the U.S.? By Wolf Shlagman, founder and CEO, Care Angel

  • 4 Obstacles Blocking Business Intelligence In Healthcare
    12/29/2016

    Among all other industries, healthcare is no doubt the most hyper-personalized. However, while care depends on the personal relationship between patient and physician, it is also inextricably bound to technology. By Abby Adams, Senior Business Analyst, Itransition Group

  • The Internet of Health: The Future Will Bring Life-Changing Advancements For Health And Wellness, But Data Challenges Will Remain
    12/22/2014

    The Internet of Things (IoT), once applied to “smart devices” that have the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction, has since evolved into the convergence of wireless technologies of all kinds, connecting and transferring data to and from the Internet. The IoT brings the promise of great opportunities, offering new commercial services and creating new business models. By Ahmad Kasmieh, CTO, Alere Analytics

  • Eye-Tracking In Healthcare: Medical Diagnostics, Health Equity, And The COVID-19 Response
    3/3/2021

    Commonly used as an assistive technology solution to support the communication and computing needs of severely handicapped individuals, eye-tracking is gaining momentum across a broader spectrum of industries as hardware and software solutions continue to evolve. Among those industries, healthcare stands to benefit greatly from advancements in the field of precision eye-tracking. Innovative and emerging use cases are ushering medical eye-tracking to a new forefront.

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