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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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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.
Today’s enterprise is at the center of a number of conflicting trends related to changes in the network. Data centers are consolidating as enterprises are scaling beyond headquarters to regional, branch, and remote locations, and often the network functions as the primary connection between these locations. In order to be competitive, today’s enterprise network must be open for business wherever, whenever, and however business is done.
DigitalPersona Privacy Manager Pro is a centrally-managed secure communication solution for businesses. It enables sensitive documents and communication to remain private, secure and unaltered wherever they are transmitted or stored.
This unit is a sophisticated, feature-rich biometric time clock system, with the ability to perform job costing and department transfers. In addition, the Velocity 850 offers extended time tracking features such as break and lunch buttons and multiple pay rates.
The Misys Connect Exchange Portal is a core element of a community solution that provides clinicians and other members of the care team with the right information at the right time by making patient information available across organizational boundaries and venues of care.
This kit will give the DVO1000MD an audio narration feature enabling an audio track to be record onto a DVD as video is being recorded. This feature can later be used for review, training and to satisfy legal concerns. The kit contains a Rane Microphone Amplifier, Sony ECM-673 Microphone, XLR/RCA Adapter, XLR Male to XLR Female Cable and RCA/RCA Y Cable.

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  • Adding Disk To Backup
    10/27/2009
    The old Northeast Delta Dental system provided great protection—data was backed up and tapes were taken off-site every day as best practices would dictate—but the system had become fragmented and complex. “We never had time or resources to duplicate tapes, so when we had to restore a file—something we do several times a week—it was extremely slow,” explains Northeast Delta Dental’s Manager of Networking and Technical Support, Dan Kaplan. “We had to get tapes returned from the off-site facility and re-load them to restore anything. It took hours, with significant manual intervention. By Quantum
  • A Missed Opportunity To Cut Overhead Spending
    10/29/2019

    A recent article in Health IT Outcomes likened stacks of papers and binders, an often-common-site in hospitals and ASCs, to a red flag. A sign that either technology is not in use, or its use is very limited because employees don’t know how to use the technology or are resistant to changing the way they’ve always done things—on paper. For those who look closer, this red flag also represents a missed opportunity to eliminate unnecessary overhead expenses.

  • How To Derive Value From The Data In Your EHR
    5/18/2020

    An electronic health record (EHR) is probably the most expensive technology investment that a hospital or health system makes, costing millions of dollars, with some deals even reaching into the billions. After investing so much money into an EHR, many healthcare organizations are loath to purchase additional technology. As a result, they are using the analytics component of their EHRs to attempt to perform organization-wide analytics. But are they succeeding at this?

  • Telehealth Underground: Why Subterranean Data Centers Provide The Most Resilient Infrastructure For Telemedicine Data
    8/31/2018

    According to the American Telemedicine Association, more than one-half of U.S. hospitals now have a telehealth program in place. Overall, 71 percent of healthcare providers are using telehealth or telemedicine technologies to provide medical services in ambulatory and inpatient settings. Telehealth produces a deluge of data, including vital sign and symptom collection from patients, leading some healthcare providers to worry that critical information may get lost in the coming data tsunami which might provide a basis for medical malpractice complaints. 

  • HIMSS16: How The M&A Boom Is Changing Health IT
    2/29/2016

    With HIMSS 2016 underway, a key topic of conversation centers on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Last year, large industry-leading deals characterized healthcare M&A with announcements form Aetna and Humana, Anthem and Cigna, and a large, nationwide movement of private practice acquisitions by hospitals and healthcare systems.

  • Will Digital Fingerprint Forensics Thwart Data Thieves Lurking In EHR Corridors?
    9/20/2016

    As Halloween approaches, the usual spate of horror movies will intrigue audiences across the U.S., replete with slashers named Jason or Freddie running amuck in the corridors of all too easily accessible hospitals. They grab a hospital gown and the zombies fit right in. While this is just a movie you can turn off, the real horror of patient data theft can follow you. By Donald Voltz, MD, Aultman Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Director of the Main Operating Room, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Case Western Reserve University and Northeast Ohio Medical University

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