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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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OSi began a decade ago as a group of transcription industry experts saw the need to offer hospitals and large clinics the resources and technology to help combat rising transcription volumes and escalating costs.
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.
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.
Delivering high-quality care may be the number one priority for healthcare providers, but reducing costs is always an imperative. The key to this is finding ways to streamline processes, eliminate inefficiency, increase productivity, and improve decision-making, thereby allowing physicians and staff to spend more time on patient-focused activities.

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.

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.

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  • What Makes Care Intelligent?
    2/23/2016

    In just a few days, more than 40,000 healthcare professionals will gather in Las Vegas for HIMSS 2016. Looking back over the last several years of this conference, there’s been a distinct shift in the conversation, from discussions centered around documentation and electronic record keeping to a thematic focus on intelligent care. A mere glance at the top five priorities from health IT leaders shows that issues like connected health, data sharing and on-demand care delivery are salient issues for our industry.

  • Keeping Healthcare From Becoming The Next Political Football
    2/4/2019

    Now that the long nightmare of the government shutdown is finally over, it is likely that politicians will once again turn their attention to the #1 issue among voters in the 2018 midterm elections according to the Kaiser Foundation: healthcare. When they do will it be more of the same – each side settling into their trenches, unwilling to give an inch if it means the other side gets credit for delivering something most Americans say they want? Or will they finally recognize that by working together everyone can win? Especially since both sides have essentially proposed the same fixes when given the opportunity.

  • Amidst The Pandemic, IT Teams Turn To The Cloud To Protect Patient Data
    9/3/2020

    The challenges facing healthcare during COVID-19 are more than biological. Already on the ropes due to the coronavirus, healthcare providers are weathering a perfect storm, as hackers take advantage of the commotion and ramp up their attack frequency and sophistication.

  • Paper And Printing As Healthcare's Source Of Communication
    3/28/2016

    Since the beginning of what is known as the Information Age, paper has been viewed as a canvas to document ideas, record relevant material, and deliver messages to prospective readers. Continued innovations in technology have given billions of workers the ability to connect seamlessly — oftentimes with little effort. Convenience and efficiency are deemed topline must-haves, as we have handy cloud services that digitize essential materials like images and documents. Thus, common tasks like writing letters or printing receipts are now seen as passé as they can be streamlined or, in some cases, avoided altogether by utilizing email, apps, and/or direct electronic messages.

  • Evaluating Tablet PCs For Point-Of-Care Productivity
    10/11/2011
    You have a lot of options when it comes to selecting a tablet PC for use at the point-of-care. This white paper looks beyond the trendy features and designs to show you the best tablets for integrating with your healthcare systems and streamlining point-of-care productivity.
  • 5 Patient Engagement Lessons From Outside Healthcare
    1/31/2017

    We call it patient engagement; everyone else calls it customer relationship management By Raj Toleti, CEO of HealthGrid

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