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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

PRODUCTS TO SEE AT HIMSS14

The powerful SpeechMike Barcode with integrated Barcode Scanner allows you to attach patient or client information to your dictations and securely allocate the data to the relevant file.
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.
OSi began a decade ago as a group of transcription industry experts saw the need to offer hospitals and large clinics the resources and technology to help combat rising transcription volumes and escalating costs.
The Philips Digital Pocket Memo 9600 series sets new standards in advanced functionality and style. Voice commands, on-board file encryption and password protection are but a few of the powerful features of the 9600. The ergonomic design lends itself to unparalleled user friendliness to create dictations, and the intuitive controls are easy to use.

To maximize asset utilization from IV pumps to portable emergency equipment, hospitals and clinics need to be able to find and rapidly deploy these assets to maintain top quality care.

Built for demanding mobile environments that require robust enterprise software compatibility, the C5m Rugged Tablet Platform offers the durability and functionality you need to seamlessly go wherever you care – all while staying connected and secure. Find out what the C5m can do for you.

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FEATURED CONTENT

  • Leveraging The New HIT Landscape To Drive Clinical And Financial Excellence
    7/3/2018

    In 2010, only about 15 percent of the nation’s hospitals had at least a basic clinical EHR in place. Thanks to the roll-out of the Meaningful Use program, that number had climbed to 95 percent by 2016. Although Meaningful Use was developed to promote the adoption of health information technology to improve clinical outcomes, the journey has been very painful for most clinicians, including nurses, physicians, pharmacists and others.

  • Cybersecurity For C-level Healthcare Executives
    10/26/2018

    Along with mitigating risk at an individual level, there’s an obvious requirement to ensure the systems, networks, and devices we rely on are protected against attacks from an ever-increasing number of malicious actors. Several attacks have gained ground in recent months to devastating effect, and its C-level executives that carry the ultimate responsibility for resolving these issues and preventing future catastrophe.

  • 3 Steps To Restoring Provider Passion
    11/20/2017

    For those of us who entered the practice of medicine to help others, it can be incredibly disheartening when you realize you’re becoming burned out by the regulations, rules and technical challenges that keep you from focusing on what matters most: your patients. By Dr. Tom Schwieterman, vice president, Clinical Affairs and CMO, Midmark Corporation

  • Post Traumatic Scheduling Disorder
    8/4/2016

    How one hospitalist division’s physician shift scheduling broke and became something great. By Romil Chadha, MD, MPH, FACP, FHM, hospitalist at University of Kentucky HealthCare

  • Remote Locations Put Health Information At Risk — 4 Ways To Improve Security
    7/13/2016

    One-third of Americans fell victim to healthcare data breaches in 2015, and 98 percent of those leaks resulted from large-scale attacks directly targeting the healthcare industry. Healthcare providers must step up their security measures, especially now that care is increasingly provided beyond the walls of a hospital. By Karin Ratchinsky, director of healthcare vertical strategy, Level 3 Communications

  • 5 Best Practices For Overcoming Data Integration Challenges
    2/25/2016

    Improving patient care, clinical outcomes, empowering patients, improving quality while reducing overall costs — what’s the common denominator for all of these? Data integration.

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