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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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PatientWorks' expert knowledge of patient admission and access management has enabled it to develop its leading edge software. PatientWorks® is a software solution for hospitals that want a more efficient registration process by utilizing the power and flexibility of electronic forms. PatientWorks offers a natural migration path for existing card-based solutions.
With StatCom’s Hospital Operating System™ hospitals achieve very real and demonstrable patient throughput gains in less than one year on the order of $3 to $11M depending upon their size and throughput improvement opportunity.

The IF4 is a simple reader or “peripheral device”, with best in class dense reader mode performance, specifically designed with a RS232 port for a cost effective solution for implementing RFID by attaching the reader to a programmable logic controller (PLC).

Healthcare industry today is focused on improving the quality of care and operational efficiency, while reducing costs and optimizing its backend operations. By Infosys Technologies Limited

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.

Primera’s BravoPro, the world’s best-selling two-drive, 100-disc capacity disc publisher, has now become the BravoPro Xi-Series.

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  • What Does Age Have To Do With Healthcare Payments?
    8/23/2017

    Healthcare spending grew to $3.4 trillion in 2016 and is expected to reach $5.5 trillion by the year 2025 according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. By Chris Seib, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, InstaMed

  • Greater Efficiency Can Solve The Physician Shortage Problem
    10/30/2015

    The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) warns the U.S. will have a shortfall of about 130,000 physicians by 2025. Many healthcare leaders are urgently calling for a nationwide effort to recruit and educate doctors as it takes a minimum of seven years to fully train a physician. But there’s another way to solve the problem: increase physician efficiency and capacity. By Tom Cox, CEO, MyHealthDirect

  • 5 Ways To Spot Malicious Insiders
    5/21/2015

    Medical data is under attack. Both patients and healthcare providers are becoming increasingly aware of the threats to information stored within the industry. And the trust in organizations’ ability to protect this highly sensitive data isn’t keeping pace. In a 2014 Ponemon Institute study, of the people who said their healthcare providers outlined the measures used to protect patients' medical records, 68 percent of those respondents revealed they weren't confident the measures would actually keep their medical data secure. By Lisa J. Berry-Tayman, senior privacy and information governance advisor, IDT911 Consulting

  • Guest Column: Managing Patient Flow In The United States
    4/21/2011
    Moving patients through hospitals in an efficient manner can increase staff satisfaction, patient safety, and even your bottom line. By GDS International
  • Data Science Is Becoming Increasingly Automated — And That's Good News For Healthcare
    12/15/2015

    Big Data is playing an increasing role in healthcare, promising lower costs, enhanced diagnoses, and improved doctor-patient matches. To get to the next level, two sea changes — access to medical information and intelligent data solutions — need to accelerate. By Scott Howser, SVP Products, Nutonian

  • The Role Of Social Determinants In Influencing Population Health
    7/8/2019

    While we’re starting to see some recognition of the role that social determinants play in contributing toward health and wellbeing, the influence and impact of factors such as health behaviors, food supply, housing, financial situation, access to healthcare and social relationships on overall health have so far been greatly underestimated. We are complex and our health reflects this complexity. Including social determinants in health evaluations holds great promise not only for patients and broader population groups, but for healthcare providers and health systems overall.

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