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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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    7/28/2011

    Misperceptions about 2-D imagers are changing fast, which is why 2-D imagers are the fastest-growing category of bar code readers. Only a few years ago, 2-D imagers were (wrongly) considered a niche technology mostly used for reading 2-D bar codes. Now they are becoming the technology of choice for most bar code applications, and lasers are on the way to becoming a niche technology. By Intermec

  • Patient Engagement Brings Promising Business Venture For Service Providers
    6/12/2017

    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed rules last year for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).

  • Holding The Board Accountable In The Age Of COVID
    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.

  • As Virtual Care Surges, Pharma Organizations Need To Reimagine Patient And Provider Engagement Strategies
    9/1/2020

    We’ve all seen the headlines about the tsunami of growth expected to hit telehealth and virtual delivery of care. Recent events related to COVID-19 have certainly been one key market driver, however, explorations into the use of telehealth and telemedicine have been steadily increasing for more than two decades.

  • Case Study: Prescription-Strength SmartSearch Cures Inefficiency In Home Health Care Operation
    11/11/2009
    Sick of relying on a cumbersome, paper-based system to manage patient care, a leading home health care company finally found the medicine it needed. Affordable, easy-to-use and reliable, SmartSearch quickly transformed the company into a totally electronic, virtually paperless organization. By Square 9 Softworks
  • AMA EHR Initiatives: What They Mean For Tomorrow's Doctors
    7/7/2017

    The AMA recently announced two separate initiatives around EHR training for next-generation doctors: the AMA Health System Science Textbook and the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative.

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