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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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  • White Paper: Tips On Wandering Alzheimer's Patients
    11/30/2009
    It is suggested that nearly 70% of people with Alzheimer’s disease will wander away from home and get lost. Wandering is one of the biggest risks for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and is a common but dangerous symptom of the disease. A wanderer is someone with a disease such as Alzheimer’s who has wandered away on their own free-will from their caregiver. By Karen Cinpinski, Accutech-ICS
  • Using Broader Diagnostics To Detect Bacterial Co-Infections And Drug Resistance In COVID-19 Patients
    5/11/2020

    Rapid diagnostic technologies that aid in the detection and management of COVID-19 cases play an essential role in delivering quick, targeted treatment to slow down transmission and flatten the curve. During the initial pandemic response, testing was focused only on SARS-CoV-2 virus detection, but as this public health concern evolves, a broader arsenal of tests may need to be considered to detect other health threats that can go undetected or develop as a consequence of secondary infections in COVID-19 hospitalized patients.

  • The Future Of HIEs
    10/17/2018

    The United States government passed the 21st Century Cures Act in December 2016 that paved the way for a more streamlined device and drug approval process. The objective of this act was to bring new treatments to the market faster. While the debate in mainstream media focused on the merits of approving drugs based on weaker evidence and bypassing randomized, controlled trials, there were other provisions in the law that were truly remarkable.

  • Case Study: Allos Faced A Diverse Set Of Business Challenges
    11/19/2009
    Allos Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Allos has 75 employees in offices in Colorado and New Jersey. Especially with distributed employees, a paper-based system was not meeting the company’s needs for information sharing and collaboration. By KnowledgeTree, Inc.
  • Is BPO The Solution To Patient Contact Center Modernization?
    1/2/2018

    Contact centers were created to manage many of the administrative tasks associated with patient management, such as scheduling or re-scheduling appointments, accessing lab results or referral requests. This system allowed patients to engage with their provider organization without adversely impacting the top-of-license work of clinicians.

  • Comparative Analytics And BI Solutions: What's The Difference?
    8/25/2016

    Healthcare organizations face numerous business challenges including concerns over processing times, denial rates, cash flow, and alternative payment models, to name a few. As organizations identify areas in which to focus their efforts and maximize performance, a growing number are investing in business intelligence (BI) solutions featuring comparative analytics so they have the ability to identify areas of the business in which improvements will offer the greatest ROI.

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