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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.

Healthcare organizations worldwide trust IBM Cognos software to help them drive operational efficiencies and reduce costs, improve the quality of care they deliver, and support innovative clinical research.
Confidential information abounds in healthcare, so healthcare providers must ensure that their records are easy and efficient to obtain, yet secure from unauthorized access.
Risk Assessment Manager provides everything you need to expose areas of risk within your healthcare organization and respond quickly and appropriately. Integrated, Web-based tools save time and lower the costs of risk management in healthcare.
PrognoCIS EMR has specialty templates, encounter scripts and key equipment integration points ideal for the Endocrinology practice. Our technology enables plug and play integration with most Endocrinology hardware. The user interface is ideal, tab formatted, user friendly, intuitive and fast. Endocrinologists using PrognoCIS EMR save time with automated SOAP (Progress notes) in addition to elimination of transcription costs, HL7 integration, ePrescriptions and more.
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.

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  • The Right Population Health Analytics To Transform The Patient Experience
    6/14/2018

    Consider a situation where healthcare is not just an industry term- a situation where EHRs are not an integral part of physicians schedule but just a support to providing care. All considered, imagine a situation where patient-centric care actually involves the patient, and patient engagement is not just a buzzword but a reality. Unfortunately, all these imaginations were supposed to be a reality, but still, healthcare managers and organizations are struggling with the problems such as the lack of patients’ adherence to medication, varying trends in the population health, and a lot more. Patient populations, nowadays, expect the same on-demand delivery convenience from the healthcare organizations as they get from the other companies like Netflix.

  • Leveraging PRM Systems To Get Real Results From Physician Relationship Management Programs
    6/29/2016

    Hospitals and health systems often use physician liaisons to strengthen the ties that bond. Part salesperson, part customer service agent, and part consultant — physician liaisons are charged, in part with establishing and maintaining good relations with the cadre of physicians working in their communities. As such, these liaisons often visit with physicians to provide updates on hospital services and to ensure they are satisfied with the hospital’s level of service. It’s part of a strategy that goes a long way in not only keeping physicians happy with the hospital or health system; it also leads to business growth.

  • Veterans' Healthcare Is Mission Critical; Health Technology Can Help
    11/11/2019

    Every year United States celebrates Veterans Day, an opportunity for all Americans to consider the sacrifices that veterans of the U.S. Armed Services have made and remember to thank and honor those that served, both in war and in peacetime. Many veterans also face a secondary sacrifice: unique healthcare challenges in the long- and short-term occurring upon their return to the civilian population.

  • Protecting Healthcare Institutions From DDoS And Ransomware Attacks
    11/21/2016

    Healthcare organizations understand network uptime is a critical (if not the most critical) component to organizational success in today’s digital age. Networks allow for EHRs to be accessed, life-critical applications to be run, and research to be conducted.

  • Applying Retail Principles To Healthcare Can Improve Patient Engagement
    3/9/2020

    Like other industries, healthcare is evolving to deliver in a digital world. High deductible plans and greater out-of-pocket costs mean more patients are putting on their consumer hats when seeking healthcare services. In turn, health systems are consolidating and taking on risk, requiring a retail-like mindset to engage with patients. To improve patient engagement, follow these tips.

  • Give Healthcare Teams What They Want In Data Analytics
    4/12/2018

    Consumers today expect technology to be not only fast, but readily available and intuitive as well. With smart phones, tablets and other everyday technologies, we have become accustomed to searching for and finding what we need instantly. Healthcare informatics professionals are no different. Just 10 years ago, people accepted that software might take longer to answer a question, run calculations or even move to another screen.

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