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• Talking Tech And Natural Language Processing – Making It Work In Healthcare

  11/18/2020

  Futurists paint a bright picture of smart clinical technology: ask a chatbot what the right dose of ACE inhibitors is to give a patient with moderate aortic stenosis, and the all-knowing bot will spit out the right answer, based on millions of patient cases. Appealing? Absolutely. Ready for prime time? Definitely not.

• Patients Are Paying The Price For Health IT's Stumbles

  5/11/2016

  While the HITECH Act of 2009 — part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) economic stimulus bill — put much-needed emphasis on healthcare, particularly the role information technology (IT) should play in it, the reality is we have been left with a promise unfulfilled. Today, doctors are less productive than they were before, and IT is the culprit. Rather than enabling a better, more streamlined workflow, IT has become a burden.

• Hackers Are Not Natural Disasters Or Acts Of God

  6/19/2018

  Data breaches are unfortunately becoming more and more common as the never-ending march toward digital transformation carries on while picking up pace. No other sector is as directly impacted by breaches than health care as medical records are considered an order of magnitude more valuable than even credit cards.

• ML For Healthcare As A Requisite To Responsible Patient Care

  3/12/2019

  Big data has long since arrived in the healthcare provider industry. We live in a world where remote patient monitoring devices can generate hundreds of blood pressure readings per day, where every supply is tracked down to a strip of gauze, and millions of radiology images may reside within a single EHR server. But along with these piles of data come clinicians and analysts charged with sifting through them, and the herculean task of providing actionable insight.

• The Talking Warehouse: Understanding How Voice Unleashes Higher Performance In Product Distribution

  5/11/2011

  While voice-directed workflow has been a force in distribution operations for nearly two decades, it is still considered a young technology by many supply chain professionals. In a recent independent survey, only one in five supply chain managers claimed an awareness of voice. By Roger Byford and David Maloney, Intermec, Inc.

• A Missed Opportunity To Cut Overhead Spending

  10/29/2019

  A recent article in Health IT Outcomes likened stacks of papers and binders, an often-common-site in hospitals and ASCs, to a red flag. A sign that either technology is not in use, or its use is very limited because employees don’t know how to use the technology or are resistant to changing the way they’ve always done things—on paper. For those who look closer, this red flag also represents a missed opportunity to eliminate unnecessary overhead expenses.