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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 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.

Perhaps more than in any other industry, healthcare organizations are being forced to re-examine their business processes. Rising costs, ongoing provider consolidation, and the need for HIPAA compliance solutions are all driving healthcare organizations to find new ways to improve operational efficiencies, increase productivity, and reduce expenses.
PatientWorks' expert knowledge of patient admission and access management has enabled it to develop its leading edge software. PatientWorks® is a software solution for hospitals that want a more efficient registration process by utilizing the power and flexibility of electronic forms. PatientWorks offers a natural migration path for existing card-based solutions.
The Ultra Phoenix is an integrated state-of-the-art touch-screen computer-based nurse call system.
The LMD-3250MD 32” 1920x1080 HD monitor is the latest edition to Sony's comprehensive range of medical grade LCD displays. This 32” widescreen monitor offers a 10-bit panel driver, 10-bit signal processing and Sony ChromaTRU color balance technology for ultra high performance.
Vertical offers proven Healthcare Communications Solutions for healthcare that integrate your existing phone system and data network using VoIP and IP technology, increasing productivity, patient satisfaction and administrative efficiency.

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  • More Ways To Pay Bring More Security Concerns: 3 Tips To Enhance Payment Protection
    6/7/2016

    Consumerism and increasing patient responsibility are driving healthcare organizations to expand their options for patients to make payments. As providers look to new payment options to meet consumer demands and increase their collections, they need to carefully consider payment security.

  • Data Activation Will Take Doctors To The Future: Embedded Analytics And Actionable Insights
    4/11/2019

    Though most organizations today have Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructures in place, most of the insights generated through them are only good for analyzing things in retrospect and do not really assist providers in the moment of care.

  • The High Cost Of Medication Errors
    8/1/2017

    Improving the outlook through better management of alert fatigue By Raj Gopalan, MD, MSIS, Vice President of Innovation and Clinical Informatics, Wolters Kluwer

  • Harnessing The Unstructured Content In Your Healthcare Facility
    5/24/2010
    Your healthcare facility has likely acquired several third party applications that interface to your ERP (enterprise resource planning) system. By Dylan Persaud, managing director, Eval-Source
  • Non Profit Healthcare Provider Goes Mobile With Tablet Computers
    1/5/2012

    Swedish Medical Center in Washington was in search of a device that would allow its mobile nurses to update and access patient information on the go. With a main focus on connectivity and mobility, this case study highlights how the medical center identified and selected the right mobile device — a tablet computer — to fit their complex workflow.

  • 4 Unique Challenges In Healthcare Recruiting
    2/12/2019

    Recruiting in our current atmosphere of low unemployment is a challenge to begin with. However, recruiting in the healthcare industry which currently boasts a 2.6 percent unemployment rate can be deemed almost impossible by some. In this piece, I set out to tackle the challenges of recruiting in healthcare during a period of record-breaking low unemployment and a new strategy to help meet those challenges.

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