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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 fundamental objective of MOSS (Misys Open Source Solutions) Health Information Exchange is the secure exchange of patient clinical data with authorized users to advance the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare delivery. Misys Connect™ Exchange leverages IHE technical profiles to exchange medical summary documents across various source systems. For provider organizations, communities, and state-level Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) or Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), these HIE Services enable an XDS.b (CCD, HITSP C32/C48 specifications) document (containing patient health information) to be shared regardless of the source system.
Healthcare organizations worldwide trust IBM Cognos software to help them drive operational efficiencies and reduce costs, improve the quality of care they deliver, and support innovative clinical research.
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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Enterprise Resource Planning has been the ultimate solution to many sectors and healthcare is no exception. Hospitals require more connectivity because the information to be passed is vital and will not serve the purpose if it does not reach in time.
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FEATURED CONTENT

  • A New Approach To Threat Detection Helps Get Ahead Of Cyberattackers
    11/3/2016

    Cyberattacks in the healthcare industry represent an enormous social, governmental and operational challenge, with potential financial, privacy and reputational costs that can be massive. The consequences and costs can be extensive and can impact patients, healthcare providers, device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, insurance providers and government entities.

  • Applying Machine Learning To Live Data
    8/4/2017

    According to the OECD, U.S. healthcare devotes far more of its economy to health than any other country, yet the life expectancy of the American population is shorter than in other countries that spend less. The biggest areas of spending and concern are for coordination of care and preventing hospital admissions for people with chronic conditions such as heart disease. The combination of connected medical devices, streaming analytics, big data, and machine learning has become more powerful and less expensive than before, which could enable scalable chronic disease management with better care at lower costs.

  • Painting The Full Picture: Social Determinants Of Health And Its Impact On Patient Care
    3/4/2019

    There is a hot buzzword around town: Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). Currently defined by The World Health Organization (WHO) as, “the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life,” SDOH plays an integral role in holistic patient care that extends beyond the hospital or doctor’s office. Socioeconomic status, political systems and social norms all contribute to an environment in which individuals thrive or experience challenges.

  • ShiftWise Customer Case Study: Memorial Health System
    11/23/2009
    Memorial Health System is an award-winning provider of comprehensive health care services in southern Colorado. The 650-bed healthcare system is comprised of three hospitals, 12 ancillary facilities and 4,500 employees in the Colorado Springs region. By Shiftwise
  • Leveraging Comparative Data To Improve Value-Based Contract Performance
    7/5/2017

    Whatever the future holds for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the move from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursements is expected to continue. By Matt Waltrich, RemitDATA

  • New Communication Methods Can Help Ring In New Year Of Greater Patient Engagement
    1/11/2021

    Telehealth will continue to prove valuable, but it’s not enough. Though we’ve seen rapid adoption of telehealth platforms over the last year, our end goal is sustainable patient satisfaction. That means across the entire health interaction—not just at the point of care. To develop greater hospital-patient engagement, organizations need to view telehealth as only one piece of the entire puzzle.

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