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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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    Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML, respectively) are the technologies du jour. IT and product teams are applying AI and ML solutions to everything from robotics to refrigerators, everywhere machines produce performance and/or environmental data. But how can AI and ML benefit healthcare equipment maintenance, not typically viewed as a hotbed of innovation? In fact, there is an abundance of ways AI and ML can bring new levels of revenue increases and cost savings to healthcare organizations by rapidly creating new, actionable insights for maintenance teams.

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    Four out of five physicians use smartphones for patient care-related activities. Considering the ubiquity of smartphones in our culture, that finding is not very surprising. What is concerning is physicians who dictate may be using a voice recording application on their smartphone to capture patient care notes, content for letters, and other sensitive data to be later transcribed.

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    2/18/2020

    Quality healthcare is predicated on a simple principle: first, do no harm. The Hippocratic Oath serves as the sector’s centuries-old lodestar that ensures that doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers are always working toward a singular goal of promoting positive patient health outcomes.

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