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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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Accounts Payable Automation solutions enable you to scan, classify, and index paper documents as well as electronic invoices. EMC and partners offer Accounts Payable Automation solutions that help to improve the entire accounts payable process.

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  • Social Determinants Of Health: Digital To The Rescue
    11/1/2019

    Zip code, not just genetic code, is a significant driver of health outcomes.* Indeed, the environmental, social, cultural, community, economic, and educational influences on people’s health over time—collectively known as the social determinants of health (SDOH)—variably impact people's ability to lead healthy lives over time. Organizations have invested heavily in solutions such as affordable housing, case management, and food delivery services to attempt to address SDOH in recent years.

  • Harnessing The Power Of The Browser To Improve Care
    7/18/2016

    As mobile technology becomes engrained into almost all facets of life and business, the rise of mobile healthcare, or mHealth, is not surprising. By Ilan Paretsky, Vice President of Marketing, Ericom Software

  • New Population Health Decision System For ACOs Uncovers The Hidden Risks
    3/10/2016

    One of the biggest challenges for Accountable Care Organizations is effective deployment of patient care resources. To succeed requires an in-depth understanding of patient risk, which is often difficult to assess. The reason for this is that most risk analysis systems rely on claims data, which can only tell who, in the past, has been a high-use patient. What that data can’t do is tell you who is on the verge of developing a serious condition.

  • Using Analytics For Healthier Encounters
    3/23/2018

    It’s no secret that a new business model has been emerging for the healthcare industry over the last several years. From its early days at the end of the previous century, the Managed Care model has slowly but surely been making its way into every nook and cranny of an industry desperately in need of reinventing itself. The reasons for this are many, but at its core, the promise of a healthcare delivery system organized to manage cost, utilization and the quality of healthcare services is just too promising to ignore.

  • Fragmentation In Healthcare: What A Data Platform Can Do To Help
    2/5/2019

    Faced with limited budgets and resources, healthcare organizations have struggled for years to manage core technology requirements and meet pressing business imperatives. This has led many to focus on their immediate needs with little consideration for how they should or could participate in the broader challenge of healthcare integration and patient care.

  • Beating COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive To Pro-Active Care
    10/5/2020

    The COVID-19 virus is ravaging the planet at a scale not seen since the infamous Spanish Flu of the early 1900s, inflicting immense devastation as the U.S. loses more than 200,000 lives and counting. According to CDC statistics, 94 percent of patient mortalities associated with COVID-19 were simultaneously suffering from preexisting conditions, leaving a mere 6 percent of victims with COVID-19 as their sole cause of death. However, while immediate prospects for a mass vaccine might not be until 2021, there is some hope.

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