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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

PRODUCTS TO SEE AT HIMSS14

With rich feature sets and extensive model options, the Gryphon™ product series from Datalogic Scanning represents the premium level of data collection equipment for general purpose applications.
The Misys Connect Exchange Portal is a core element of a community solution that provides clinicians and other members of the care team with the right information at the right time by making patient information available across organizational boundaries and venues of care.
The powerful SpeechMike Barcode with integrated Barcode Scanner allows you to attach patient or client information to your dictations and securely allocate the data to the relevant file.
PrognoCIS EMR has specialty templates, encounter scripts and key equipment integration points ideal for the Endocrinology practice. Our technology enables plug and play integration with most Endocrinology hardware. The user interface is ideal, tab formatted, user friendly, intuitive and fast. Endocrinologists using PrognoCIS EMR save time with automated SOAP (Progress notes) in addition to elimination of transcription costs, HL7 integration, ePrescriptions and more.
Fully integrated EMR and practice management software. Transfer all of your exams to AltaPoint with our EMR Exam Word Lists. Document Systems as Normal and annotate exceptions to the Systems in the exam. AltaPoint EMR is uniquely configured to allow any specialty to customize AltaPoint to accept entry for all of your exams. Any specialty will benefit from the use of our AltaPoint EMR.

Specimens are often the key to accurate diagnosis, so maintaining an accurate specimen-to-patient relationship is essential. Furthermore, eliminating manual entry improves accuracy.

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    9/8/2020

    For years, healthcare organizations have been the targets of cyberattacks because of the valuable data they control and their imperative to focus their spending on patient care and operations. Now, when nations are looking to these organizations to both heal a pandemic-stricken populace while also extending telehealth services to treat other medical issues, they are even more vulnerable to opportunistic threat actors. Healthcare is—now more than ever—a critical infrastructure service, and we call on Congress to provide regulatory guidance requiring healthcare company boards of directors to be accountable for cybersecurity oversight.

  • Identity Management: Connecting The Digital Age Of Healthcare
    11/22/2016

    Aging populations, the proliferation of chronic diseases, rising costs, and the expectation of affordable, effective care are serious challenges for healthcare organizations. By Jessica Morrison, Senior Director, Global Product Marketing at ForgeRock

  • Can Whole Person Analytics Improve Health Equity?
    10/26/2020

    Identifying and dealing with health equity is reliant upon reacting to retrospective data and insights. Could we use modern technology to respond more proactively to help vulnerable populations?

  • Conducting Research, Even When Disasters Strike
    3/20/2017

    Disasters often unfold suddenly and unpredictably (explosions), with a short lead time to prepare (hurricanes) or over extended time periods (droughts). Each disaster event can present its own set of public health threats. By Steve Ramsey, MPH, Project Manager and Senior Advisor for Epidemiological Field Studies, Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.

  • FDA Approves AI-Based Heart Failure Screening Method
    1/23/2020

    Heart failure is a growing problem in the United States. In 2017, heart failure was responsible for one out of every eight deaths in the country, with the condition costing the nation upwards of $30 billion, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

  • Omnichannel Communication: The Frontier Healthcare Needs To Target
    11/4/2019

    One of the many aspects that insurers focus on to create more value through their health plans is to improve communication with the members. In the era of growing digitization, most payers have started to offer online services. However, many beneficiaries still use traditional channels to interact with insurers. Does it imply that members are averse to using digital channels for communication?

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