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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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Web 2.0 is profoundly changing the way we work and interact. More than 90 of the top 100 Web sites are categorized as social networking or search sites, supporting dynamic or user-generated content. Many organizations are embracing the Web as a business platform, but Web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and RSS feeds, render traditional security technologies such as antivirus, Web reputation, and basic URL filtering ineffective.
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Biometrics have become more and more ubiquitous in our daily lives, from ATM machines to check out aisles at your local market, to personal electronics. Continuing innovations and improvements to the various biometric technologies have made them more accessible to consumers and businesses alike.
Basware Invoice Processing is a cutting-edge electronic invoice processing solution that eliminates the need to manually process purchase invoices. This solution supports electronic workflow, revision, cost allocation and approval of invoices as well as transfer to an organization’s ERP or financial system.

The Intermec SG20 is an affordable, high performance family of handheld scanners available in tethered or cordless models. Designed to the needs of healthcare, the SG20 helps to ensure that patient safety standards are consistently met.

Automatic encryption of laptop and desktop hard drives protects critical information and prevents corporate data breaches. Check Point Full Disk Encryption provides the highest level of data security with multi-factor pre-boot authentication and the strongest encryption algorithms.

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    While health policy decisions seem to be routinely made at the federal level without regard to their impact on patient care or population health, payers and providers don’t have that luxury. By Kathleen Myers, MD, FACEP, and CMIO, AristaMD

  • A White Paper About EMR Workflow, Usability, And Productivity In Pediatric And Primary Care
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  • GDPR Vs. HIPAA — Noting The Differences
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    If you are in the United Kingdom or anywhere in the European Union, you may have already started working towards GDPR compliance. The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is a set of compliance requirements that comes into effect in May 2018 and will apply to any organization that deals with data provided by citizens of the European Union. In other words, this ruling can apply to your organization even if you are based outside the EU but handle data pertaining to patients from the EU.

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    Big Data is everywhere. However, as the list of Big Data tools grows and grows, organizations of all sizes often struggle to build and maintain analytics infrastructures that are future-proof. Nowhere is this clearer than in the development of healthcare analytics.

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    Banks have traditionally played a critical role in serving the healthcare industry. They are payment aggregators, digital and paper lockboxes, data normalizers, systems of record, and more. By Deborah Theobald, CEO, Vecna

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