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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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  • NLP, AI, And Machine Learning: Complementary Technologies For Advancing Patient Care
    7/17/2017

    For the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) — especially natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning — has been a hot topic in healthcare as vendors, researchers, and providers consider ways to leverage technology to transform medical research and clinical care. By Simon Beaulah, Senior Director of Healthcare, Linguamatics

  • The 3 Sides To Building FHIR
    1/15/2019

    The FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard has reached a key milestone with release 4. The standard itself, and vendor support, have attained a plateau of maturity, and the industry is anticipating its potential benefits. Now, an important question lingers – will this revision of FHIR bring the ecosystem closer to a single standard of interoperability?

  • Digital Paper For A Smarter Hospital: How Landmark Hospitals Upgraded The Patient Experience
    2/27/2020

    Now more than ever, it is critical for information across the care continuum to be accurate. Data plays a crucial role in patient care, from Electronic Health/Medical Records (EHR/EMR) to Predictive Analytics. Digitization has been widely adopted and successful in improving workflow efficiency, enhancing the accuracy of communications, mitigating risk and improving safety for the benefit of patients.

  • The Big Data Healthcare Is Ignoring
    10/6/2017

    In the years since the mandated adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), healthcare providers and technology developers have sought out solutions to leverage the resultant newfound abundance of patient data to improve outcomes. By Kurt Waltenbaugh, founder and CEO, Carrot Health

  • One-Day EHR Switch Takes Months To Plan
    3/28/2014

    Dr. Richard Long, SVP & CMO at UPMC Hamot discusses why the decision was made to switch EHRs in one fell swoop, saying the short term pain was preferable to a long, drawn out process. Long notes, however, the one-day transition took months to plan.

  • Massachusetts General Hospital Uses Smart Bar Code Printers To Ensure Patient Safety
    12/9/2010

    According to the FDA, hospitals could eliminate 50 percent of their medication administration errors by scanning bar codes at the point of care to positively identify patients, the medication they are about to receive, and match the information to a physician order. By Intermec, Inc.

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