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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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Confidential information abounds in healthcare, so healthcare providers must ensure that their records are easy and efficient to obtain, yet secure from unauthorized access.

Medications change rapidly, and innovative treatments often consist of a "cocktail" of drugs, so custom mixing of pharmaceuticals has become a major component of healthcare – one that necessitates an extreme degree of accuracy and tracking.

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    11/14/2010
    Health System Adds $16M In Profit With CRM Technology This case study highlights how Trinity Health leveraged healthcare-specific CRM software to initiate and execute patient-geared marketing campaigns that generated $16.4M in net profit for the system. By Reach3
  • How Genomics Researchers Deal With Big Data
    5/24/2017

    While the term Big Data was, according to the New York Times’ Steve Lohr, coined in 1998, it hit the mainstream as a hot business concept about a decade ago when major advancements in processing power, storage, and bandwidth coincided with the trend toward cloud computing. By Greg Hoffer, Vice President of Engineering, Globalscape

  • Reimagining The Future Of Hospital Crisis Management
    8/20/2020

    COVID is the trigger that may be the ultimate transformation in healthcare. When the pandemic first hit, health systems went from managing a crisis occasionally to managing multifaceted situations every day. Healthcare organizations needed to reinvent themselves quickly and implement new approaches to everything. This ranged from workforce protection, supply chain and resource stabilization, patient flow and care protocols, and staff communication and engagement – all while dealing with a deadly respiratory pandemic, financial uncertainty, and typical seasonal emergencies, such as tornadoes.

  • How The Biocomplexity Institute Of Virginia Tech Is Leveraging High-Performance Analytics For Public Health
    8/15/2017

    The recent outbreak of the Zika virus and its impact highlights the need for the world’s leading health organizations and governments to innovate using emerging technologies for tracking and preventing epidemics. By Harshal Shah, Senior Director, Healthcare, Persistent Systems

  • Mobile Clinical Assistant Reduces Errors 18%
    8/6/2009
    Each year, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) cares for more than 33,000 in-patients and instructs nearly 3,000 health sciences undergraduate and graduate students. By Integrated Solutions magazine
  • Identity Management: Connecting The Digital Age Of Healthcare
    11/22/2016

    Aging populations, the proliferation of chronic diseases, rising costs, and the expectation of affordable, effective care are serious challenges for healthcare organizations. By Jessica Morrison, Senior Director, Global Product Marketing at ForgeRock

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