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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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  • Charting The Course Toward Value-Based Care With A Healthcare Data Lake
    9/22/2015

    There is no doubt healthcare providers are working hard to improve clinical outcomes. With healthcare reform progressing, providers are being asked to accelerate their goals and timetables to programmatically manage current and future high risk populations as their organizations make the transition to value-based payment structures. “All hands are on deck” is the cry as IT teams work to integrate EHRs, medical imaging, labs, and pathology at the same time they are building better predictive analytic models to inform clinicians at the point-of-care. By Roberta Katz, Director, Healthcare-Life Sciences, EMC

  • Are You Prepared For Another Wave Of COVID-19?
    8/3/2020

    As COVID-19 continues to impact the United States, scientists are learning more and more about how and when transmission takes place. We now see that the virus comes in peaks and valleys. And in a country of enormous geographical size like the U.S., we inevitably have areas all along the spectrum. And whether we call these peaks and valleys an extended first wave or a second wave, it doesn’t really matter. For the foreseeable future, COVID-19 isn't going anywhere—and this means you need to be prepared for whatever might come.

  • Cows, Butterflies, And The 4 D's Of Digital Success In Healthcare
    11/27/2018

    Getting to “easy” is extremely hard – Dr. Graham Hughes details the four steps healthcare organizations must follow for successful digital initiatives.

  • GRC Approach Builds Strong Foundation For OCR Audit Readiness
    10/31/2016

    Healthcare providers are shouldered with many serious responsibilities. From patients’ physical health and safety to their data security and privacy — and everything in between — doctors’ offices and hospitals operate on stringent standards. By Sam Abadir, Director of Product Management at LockPath

  • Build A Case For Telehealth By Showing Patient Demand, Quality Care, And Better Pay
    9/26/2017

    The telehealth technology adoption rate has been gradual among healthcare organizations, increasingly only about 3.5 percent per year from 2014 to 2016. By Gary Sibley, vice president at Brother

  • A Data-Driven Approach To Better Care Visits
    10/25/2016

    The push to deliver greater value is prompting healthcare organizations to closely examine their clinical and financial processes in search of ways to boost efficiency, improve accuracy, and elevate the patient experience. With this in mind, First Care Clinic, a federally qualified health center and level 3 patient centered medical home located in rural Kansas, set out to retool one of its critical processes — the patient care visit.

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