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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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To maximize asset utilization from IV pumps to portable emergency equipment, hospitals and clinics need to be able to find and rapidly deploy these assets to maintain top quality care.

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Specimens are often the key to accurate diagnosis, so maintaining an accurate specimen-to-patient relationship is essential. Furthermore, eliminating manual entry improves accuracy.

4medica, the leading independent provider of Web-based connectivity between physicians and clinical laboratories, recently announced the launch of its Integrated Health Record (IHR), which includes modular components designed to enable hospitals and eligible providers to demonstrate "meaningful use" and qualify for federal government incentives in 2011.
Web Based EMR and Practice Management System Completely Customized for an Allergy and Immunology Practice. Waiting Room Solutions offers award-winning eletronic medical record (EMR) and practice management solutions designed to help Allergy and Immunology practices enhance efficiently, profitability, and patient care.
The fundamental objective of MOSS (Misys Open Source Solutions) Health Information Exchange is the secure exchange of patient clinical data with authorized users to advance the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare delivery. Misys Connect™ Exchange leverages IHE technical profiles to exchange medical summary documents across various source systems. For provider organizations, communities, and state-level Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) or Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), these HIE Services enable an XDS.b (CCD, HITSP C32/C48 specifications) document (containing patient health information) to be shared regardless of the source system.

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  • Radiation Exposure: Avoiding Repetitive Exams And Raising Patient Awareness
    4/20/2018

    It’s no news that individuals are exposed to daily background radiation, including cosmic, terrestrial, and internal one. Fortunately, the amount is not big enough to cause real damage to the human organism. However, medical procedures as x-ray, computed tomography, fluoroscopy, and nuclear medicine imaging — those using ionizing radiation to generate images of the body — may negatively affect the DNA. And exceeding permissible doses may lead to the development of carcinogenic tumors.

  • Electronic Records Management Solves Workflow Inefficiency For Swedish Medical Center
    4/16/2010
    Since 1910, Swedish Medical Center has been a hallmark for excellence in healthcare. With over 70 clinics and four hospital locations, Swedish is the largest, most comprehensive, nonprofit healthcare provider in the Greater Seattle area. Swedish is not just about facilities, research and new techniques, it’s about people coming together to provide the most compassionate care possible.
  • The Next Step To Value-Based Care: Activating Healthcare Data For Physicians
    3/26/2019

    Healthcare has seen a number of life-saving breakthroughs: vaccines, anesthesia, bypass surgery, the balloon catheter, and even decoding the human genome sequence. These have all changed the face of healthcare, transforming how we do things around here. But there’s one breakthrough which we have known is coming for a long time now.

  • Redefining Healthcare – How COVID-19 Brought Digital Medicine To The Forefront
    11/30/2020

    With the second wave of COVID-19 rapidly spreading across the U.S. and abroad, it is hard to imagine a post-COVID life at this time. The pandemic has already instilled some valuable lessons for America’s healthcare community which are starting to re-shape how medical services will be provided going forward. These changes place greater emphasis on outcomes vs. processes with less focus on symptom treatment and more holistic patient care.

  • White Paper: Controlling Patient Hypertension Via Wireless Devices
    3/25/2010
    73 million Americans have high blood pressure (defined as an individual: with systolic pressure of 140 mmHg or greater and/or diastolic pressure of 90 mmHg or greater, taking antihypertensive medication, or being told at least twice as having high blood pressure by a physician or other healthcare professional). By IDEAL LIFE, Inc.
  • How The Section 1557 Ruling Affects Language Access In Healthcare
    2/20/2017

    This past year, new standards under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act went into effect. This new regulation prohibits discrimination in certain health programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability and reinforces the assertion healthcare institutions are required to provide meaningful access to individuals needing communication assistance. In order to be compliant with the new standards, federally funded healthcare institutions are required to provide “language assistance services” for LEP patients. Kathryn Jackson, vice president of Language Operations, Stratus Video

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