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HTO Robot Nurse Will Robots Replace Healthcare Providers?

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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  • Ghosting In Healthcare: The Invisible Problem
    10/30/2019

    While being ghosted by someone you’re dating is rude and uncomfortable, being ghosted by a patient is very damaging to the financial security of your healthcare organization. So what can you do to strengthen current patient relationships and reduce the chance of being ghosted?

  • Mobile, Integrated Clinical Communications Delivers Needed Efficiencies Under Value-Based Payment Models
    2/23/2017

    The transition to value-based payment thus far has predominantly focused on preventive care, patient engagement, and other ways to improve care quality to keep patients out of the hospital. By Brad Brooks, Chief Executive Officer, TigerText

  • Beating COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive To Pro-Active Care
    10/5/2020

    The COVID-19 virus is ravaging the planet at a scale not seen since the infamous Spanish Flu of the early 1900s, inflicting immense devastation as the U.S. loses more than 200,000 lives and counting. According to CDC statistics, 94 percent of patient mortalities associated with COVID-19 were simultaneously suffering from preexisting conditions, leaving a mere 6 percent of victims with COVID-19 as their sole cause of death. However, while immediate prospects for a mass vaccine might not be until 2021, there is some hope.

  • A Look At Healthcare IT Trends
    3/26/2018

    As new technology increasingly is adopted by healthcare organizations, a variety of trends are emerging to enable better care. Here’s my take on what healthcare IT industry constituents can expect this year.

  • Outpatient Providers: Unsung Health IT Heroes
    9/27/2016

    It’s National Health IT Week, a time to raise awareness of how information technology (IT) is being used to advance healthcare. By David McMullan, PT, Chief Therapy Officer, SourceMed

  • What Is Blockchain And How Can It Be Used In Healthcare?
    4/26/2018

    Blockchain technology started as the basis for Bitcoin that allowed the cryptocurrency to operate but now it has spread to various other industries as well like healthcare. Blockchain systems are actually decentralised distributed ledger systems created by app Development Company that record transactions on blocks that are linked together and store them on an encrypted digital ledger. Since the entire blockchain system is decentralised it has no one central administrator which imparts the system extreme security because records are spread across a network of replicated databases that are always in sync. All entries in a blockchain system are time and date stamped that can only be accessed and updated by authorised users.

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