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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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In the midst of the Information Age we face the reality that ever more digital content is being created, stored and distributed, and there’s no end in sight. With as much as 90% of that data being unstructured, such as documents, spreadsheets, images and the like, storage as usual will not suffice in this new reality as organizations demand simpler, more affordable, scalable and reliable storage for digital content. The increasing demand requires a scale-out architecture that delivers infrastructure that supports private and public storage clouds and can seamlessly scale to meet evolving business needs.
Confidential information abounds in healthcare, so healthcare providers must ensure that their records are easy and efficient to obtain, yet secure from unauthorized access.
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PatientWorks' expert knowledge of patient admission and access management has enabled it to develop its leading edge software. PatientWorks® is a software solution for hospitals that want a more efficient registration process by utilizing the power and flexibility of electronic forms. PatientWorks offers a natural migration path for existing card-based solutions.
As the name "Anthro" implies, our strength is in our ergonomic designs and in our knowledge of how the human body works most comfortably and efficiently. While technology has changed significantly since 1984, our focus hasn't.
With StatCom’s Hospital Operating System™ hospitals achieve very real and demonstrable patient throughput gains in less than one year on the order of $3 to $11M depending upon their size and throughput improvement opportunity.

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