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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 SR61T handheld scanner family meets the needs of rugged applications in warehouse, distribution and industrial manufacturing, and also supports proof of delivery and point of service applications.

Enterprise Resource Planning has been the ultimate solution to many sectors and healthcare is no exception. Hospitals require more connectivity because the information to be passed is vital and will not serve the purpose if it does not reach in time.
Patient safety demands accurate identification of both patients and samples. Accurate sample identification and management processes need to begin at the patient bedside. The greater the time or distance between when a sample is drawn and when it is identified, the greater the chance for error.
Primera’s BravoPro, the world’s best-selling two-drive, 100-disc capacity disc publisher, has now become the BravoPro Xi-Series.
Perhaps more than in any other industry, healthcare organizations are being forced to re-examine their business processes. Rising costs, ongoing provider consolidation, and the need for HIPAA compliance solutions are all driving healthcare organizations to find new ways to improve operational efficiencies, increase productivity, and reduce expenses.
The Mindray DP-6600 Portable ultrasound adopts advanced digital beam-forming (DBF) and tissue speciality imaging (TSI) technologies, which has realized improvement on the quality of images. Meanwhile, broadband and multi-frequency transducers enable clinical application in a wider range. 256-frame CINE loop and 16-frame images storage are set as standard configurations. USB ports and DICOM 3.0 enhance the storage ability and facilitate the image transportation. The great performance of the DP-6600 will definitely increase the accuracy of the diagnosis, thus to benefit both of doctors and patients

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  • Google And Project Nightingale: A Breach Of Privacy Or Healthcare Hero?
    11/20/2019

    Google Healthcare has been the subject of widespread media attention recently after it was reported that Google’s “Project Nightingale” is gathering personal health data on millions of Americans. This raises many questions about not simply privacy issues, but also legal and ethical consequences. 

  • Serving The American Healthcare Revolution
    12/21/2015

    In my ritual of year-end reflection, I am struck by an unshakeable parallel between the general healthcare climate today, and the atmosphere surrounding the late stages of the American Revolution and the start of our fledgling nation. I’ve found myself returning to this construct as a way to organize my efforts in alignment with a sincere desire to bring about lasting improvements in the way we care for each other and promote health in our country. By Matt Patterson, MD, President, AirStrip

  • Guest Column: Give PACS Stations A Space-Saving Makeover
    4/21/2011
    This article takes a closer look at using a new breed of review displays with built-in USB ports to manage multiple PACS workstations instead of KVM switch solutions. By Art Marshall, product manager, medical-grade displacys, NEC Display Solutions
  • New Year, New Data-Driven Healthcare Trends
    1/25/2016

    The physician-editors of our electronic clinical reference resource know a thing or two about data. They scour more than 27,000 articles in peer-reviewed journals each year, examine and weigh the strength of evidence each study offers, and translate it into more than 8,000 quick-to-digest summaries physicians and other practitioners can use at the point of care. Following are five ways, based on the evidence, patient care will be affected by health IT, payer data mandates, and other tech trends disrupting clinical workflows in the coming year. By Betsy Jones, EBSCO Health

  • Healthcare Providers Can Enhance It By Outsourcing Their Data Centers
    10/6/2016

    Healthcare organizations continue to confront significant budgetary, staffing, regulatory, and technological challenges and are focusing squarely on their data center operations as a way to address these issues. By Greg Ross, Vice President, Product Management, FairPoint Communications

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