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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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Vertical offers proven Healthcare Communications Solutions for healthcare that integrate your existing phone system and data network using VoIP and IP technology, increasing productivity, patient satisfaction and administrative efficiency.

Designed for mobility, the Motion ® C5t delivers productivity and reliability at the point of care. Built on the foundation of the industry’s first Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA), designed for healthcare environments and based on input from thousands of clinicians worldwide, the C5t is the right fit for demanding healthcare workflows.

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.

Medications change rapidly, and innovative treatments often consist of a "cocktail" of drugs, so custom mixing of pharmaceuticals has become a major component of healthcare – one that necessitates an extreme degree of accuracy and tracking.

The Mindray DP-6600 Portable ultrasound adopts advanced digital beam-forming (DBF) and tissue speciality imaging (TSI) technologies, which has realized improvement on the quality of images. Meanwhile, broadband and multi-frequency transducers enable clinical application in a wider range. 256-frame CINE loop and 16-frame images storage are set as standard configurations. USB ports and DICOM 3.0 enhance the storage ability and facilitate the image transportation. The great performance of the DP-6600 will definitely increase the accuracy of the diagnosis, thus to benefit both of doctors and patients
With StatCom’s Hospital Operating System™ hospitals achieve very real and demonstrable patient throughput gains in less than one year on the order of $3 to $11M depending upon their size and throughput improvement opportunity.

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    Companies, venture capitalists and accelerators like Y Combinator are investing in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. There are large investments into deep learning from many different industries, such as the development of self-driving cars. If you think about AI and how it will help the healthcare industry, it makes a lot of sense. There are only so many physicians per person in the world and having some assistance can bring down the cost of healthcare and help patients at their time of need.

  • Lessons From The ER: How Doctors Can Successfully Drive The Adoption Of Virtual Care And Expand Their Practice
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    Emergency rooms and urgent care practices are busier than ever. The Affordable Care Act has inarguably created the increase in patients seeking services and, as a result, more patients will use the ER as a place to receive after-hours care. Additionally, patients use the ER and urgent care practices for illnesses or injuries that could be treated without creating additional foot traffic. Often times, doctors treat common and less urgent illnesses such as sore throats, ear pain or fevers when 40 percent of these visits could be handled outside of the traditional clinic setting.

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    Receiving our U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance was a multi-year journey for Ivenix, and the road was rigorous and exhaustive, as it should be. Ninety percent of patients receive an IV at some point during their hospital stay, so it’s critical that infusion pumps delivering potentially life-saving drugs are safe, intuitive and secure.

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    I spoke with former epidemiologists, (now working in analytics and tech) with experience working to counter infectious disease outbreaks. They all believe, just like John Snow, that data and analytics – particularly advanced analytics like artificial intelligence and machine learning – can play a crucial role in the overall health and policy response to today’s global pandemic.

  • Protecting Physician Practices From Cybertheft Takes More Than A Do-It-Yourself Approach
    1/23/2018

    Protecting patient data has become as important as protecting patients’ lives in an era of increased cybersecurity threats in healthcare, particularly for physician practices, which are especially vulnerable to attack.

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