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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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  • The Future Of Patient Safety Points To Technology
    6/11/2018

    Patient safety is one of the leading concerns within the healthcare industry worldwide. There are 440,000 preventable adverse events that contribute to patient deaths in U.S. hospitals every year, making preventable diseases the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. Additionally, approximately one in 10 hospitalized patients experience harm due to medical errors, and of those one in 10, at least 50 percent were preventable medical errors. Decreasing medical errors and improving patient outcomes are key priorities for people across the healthcare industry, but reaching these goals has proven to be an ongoing challenge.

  • A Patient's Right To Access Medical Records
    7/5/2016

    Most medical practices, healthcare organizations, and clinicians are very familiar with HIPAA rules and regulations. However, the law can be extensively complicated and is often a source of confusion and misinterpretation. According to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), one of the most common complaints and frequently misunderstood parts of the law involves a patient’s right to access their personal medical records.

  • Combating The Coronavirus With Telemedicine
    2/25/2020

    The new coronavirus (COVID-19), recently declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) an international public health emergency, is hitting closer to home. The virus has infected tens of thousands and continues to spread globally, prompting U.S. healthcare providers—many who are already stretched thin during the busy flu season—to question how they will accommodate a potential spike in visit volume while protecting their patients and themselves.

  • Tailored Medical Imaging Integration Improves Workflow
    8/26/2010
    This case study highlights how Rural Radiology Consultants optimized its PACS to enhance operating, workflow, and reporting efficiencies. As detailed in the article, the new solution allows radiologists at Rural to read from multiple remote locations from a unified worklist and return reports in as little as 30 minutes. By aycan Medical Systems
  • Post Traumatic Scheduling Disorder
    8/4/2016

    How one hospitalist division’s physician shift scheduling broke and became something great. By Romil Chadha, MD, MPH, FACP, FHM, hospitalist at University of Kentucky HealthCare

  • Why Medical Dictation Is Still Better Than Voice Recognition ... For Now
    12/20/2019

    While health professionals increasingly use voice recognition and artificial intelligence-backed software programs for clinical documentation, they yield errors in seven percent of dictated words. While this number may seem like a small margin of error, it still leaves room for compromises in healthcare quality and patient safety.

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