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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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FEATURED CONTENT

  • Owning It: 4 Digital Steps Healthcare Professionals Should Consider In Developing A Mission-Driven Personal Brand
    10/26/2020

    Most physicians don’t think of themselves as a brand. But in the long run, physicians can make a more significant impact and increase their reach by focusing on their personal, not institutional brand. Why?​

  • White Paper: Payment Integrity: New Perspectives On, And Approaches To, Mastering The Challenge Of Healthcare Fraud, Abuse And Waste
    3/25/2010
    The problem of healthcare fraud and abuse is a serious and ongoing one. Health insurance fraud includes billing for services, procedures, or supplies never provided; misrepresentation of what was provided, or by whom; and the providing of unnecessary services. By Emdeon
  • UPMC Scales Its Network With SDN
    3/6/2020

    Healthcare provider and insurer, UPMC is the largest non-governmental employer in the state of Pennsylvania. It operates 40 academic, community and specialty hospitals, 700 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites and offers an array of rehabilitation, retirement and long-term facilities. For UPMC’s IT department that means a lot of add moves and changes to administer and, with a 12 percent average annual growth rate, a lot of new users and branch offices to add. Before adopting SDN in its data centers and SD-WAN for branch connectivity, scaling UPMC’s network was a costly part of the business.

  • Talking Tech And Natural Language Processing – Making It Work In Healthcare
    11/18/2020

    Futurists paint a bright picture of smart clinical technology: ask a chatbot what the right dose of ACE inhibitors is to give a patient with moderate aortic stenosis, and the all-knowing bot will spit out the right answer, based on millions of patient cases. Appealing? Absolutely. Ready for prime time? Definitely not.

  • It's Time To Modernize Surgery Coordination
    3/16/2018

    Paper charts and file rooms, once a common site among healthcare facilities, are nearly extinct. They have been replaced with electronic health record systems. Mobile technology and the cloud have enabled anytime, anywhere access to patient information while making access to Health IT easier and more affordable. From surgical robots to smart hospitals, there is a digital transformation taking place and it is radically changing patient care.

  • Living With Big Data: A 360° View Of Patients
    4/28/2016

    The digital revolution in healthcare is well under way. As physicians have been more apt to use electronic medical records (EMRs) and pharma companies and medical researchers are now using electronic databases to hold and protect their data, healthcare holds and manages some of the most complex and contextually rich data sets of any industry. However, using that data to its fullest capacity to make intelligent clinical decisions at the point of care continues to be a pain point facing hospitals and health systems.

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