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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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With rich feature sets and extensive model options, the Gryphon™ product series from Datalogic Scanning represents the premium level of data collection equipment for general purpose applications.
Accounts Payable Automation solutions enable you to scan, classify, and index paper documents as well as electronic invoices. EMC and partners offer Accounts Payable Automation solutions that help to improve the entire accounts payable process.
Biometrics have become more and more ubiquitous in our daily lives, from ATM machines to check out aisles at your local market, to personal electronics. Continuing innovations and improvements to the various biometric technologies have made them more accessible to consumers and businesses alike.
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.
Modernizing health IT is a key focus for economic recovery - governments around the world are funding strategic stimulus initiatives for IT investment in healthcare, such as the American Recovery & Reinvestment (ARRA) HITECH Act 2009.
Ensuring that the right patient is always matched with the right medical history, medications and doctor's instructions is critical to providing the right care.

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  • Why Leading Hospitals Are Practicing IT Automation
    2/23/2018

    Hospitals and other healthcare organizations are reaping the benefits of IT Automation for a number of business, operational and data management processes. For instance, IT Automation can provide functionality that enables building workflows faster and more reliably, improving coordination of disparate technologies and tools used by various internal departments, third party providers and vendors, and provides a cohesive approach with increased efficiency.

  • 4 Ways To Boost ROI With Data-Driven Patient Engagement
    9/26/2019

    The era of “build it and they will come” in healthcare is over. With the rising cost of medical services and influx of convenient care options, patients now treat their health decisions like any other serious investment. In the face of increasing competition and consumer expectations, hospitals and health systems need to restructure their strategy in order to engage patients and consumers effectively.

  • 4 Ideas That Can Have A Big Impact On Your Network's Referrals
    10/4/2019

    Most healthcare organizations lose about 30 percent to 60 percent of patients on account of inefficient referrals. Value-based care is expected to become the leading payment model by the year 2020, and healthcare organizations cannot afford losing more than half of their revenue due to reduced referral leakages.

  • NLP, AI, And Machine Learning: Complementary Technologies For Advancing Patient Care
    7/17/2017

    For the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) — especially natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning — has been a hot topic in healthcare as vendors, researchers, and providers consider ways to leverage technology to transform medical research and clinical care. By Simon Beaulah, Senior Director of Healthcare, Linguamatics

  • Unlocking Data For Successful Outcomes
    4/1/2019

    The most valuable commodity in healthcare is right under every single provider’s nose, but what’s interesting is that most may not have access or even know how to properly leverage it. This commodity is patient data, and the good news is, 2019 will be a pivotal year to unlocking more of its potential to optimize healthcare and drive revenue.

  • Improving Healthcare With Systems Of Engagement
    5/9/2018

    Some physicians and patients think healthcare is more inefficient than ever. To combat this, Systems of Engagement are being deployed to augment EHRs, simplify data collection, and share data in easy-to-consume visualizations, getting information to the right clinician at the right time to improve patient care.

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