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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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Delivering high-quality care may be the number one priority for healthcare providers, but reducing costs is always an imperative. The key to this is finding ways to streamline processes, eliminate inefficiency, increase productivity, and improve decision-making, thereby allowing physicians and staff to spend more time on patient-focused activities.

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FEATURED CONTENT

  • 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

  • Sharing Ontologies Globally To Speed Science And Healthcare Solutions
    10/7/2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic is a clear example of how medical practitioners require swift access to enormous amounts of diverse information to efficaciously treat patients. They must synthesize individual data (vital signs, clinical history, demographics, and more) with rapidly evolving knowledge about COVID-19 and make decisions relevant to the conditions from which specific patients suffer.

  • The Importance Of Business Rules In Actionable Healthcare Data
    9/15/2016

    Healthcare organizations are wrestling with the imperative to harness information from their internal IT systems to increase operational inefficiency and improve patient outcomes. By George Dealy, Vice President of Healthcare Applications at Dimensional Insight

  • 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.

  • How To Build Your Tech Stack Around The Patient Experience—And Why You Should
    10/9/2018

    Technology is disrupting the healthcare industry, including patients’ expectations about their care experience. Thus, healthcare organizations should implement technology that enhances the patient experience—and use behavior design to ensure adoption.

  • Priming Your Practice: Security Protection And Preparedness
    6/10/2019

    Providers should prioritize the safety of patient health information (PHI) and remain diligent about HIPAA security and privacy regulations, particularly if they want to survive the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) audits. Here’s a look at growing threats and ways medical practices can protect themselves.

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