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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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The Ultra Phoenix is an integrated state-of-the-art touch-screen computer-based nurse call system.
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.
The Accounts Receivable module efficiently tracks customers, manages invoices, processes receipts and prints statements.
Protiviti’s Electronic Discovery professionals help organizations institute a systematic and disciplined approach to evaluate and improve their electronic discovery (e-discovery) capabilities.
Pocket™ “Tablet” is Nurture’s new mobile workstation specifically designed to support the active work of healthcare professionals by accommodating both the demands of the task at hand as well as emerging portable tablet technology like the iPad, Xoom and Playbook.
In the midst of the Information Age we face the reality that ever more digital content is being created, stored and distributed, and there’s no end in sight. With as much as 90% of that data being unstructured, such as documents, spreadsheets, images and the like, storage as usual will not suffice in this new reality as organizations demand simpler, more affordable, scalable and reliable storage for digital content. The increasing demand requires a scale-out architecture that delivers infrastructure that supports private and public storage clouds and can seamlessly scale to meet evolving business needs.

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