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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

  • Lowering The HIT Footprint By Endpoint Modernization
    9/18/2018

    Healthcare providers, working with tight operating margins, face a classic horns-of-the-dilemma scenario: they must continue to grow their business, and to do so, they must remain competitive in their level of service. This necessitates a refresh of IT technology and a resultant uptick in budget, at a time when overall operational costs continue to rise. All these pressures are felt at the endpoint, and more so now that doctors and nurses are using multiple devices and often traveling to varied locations during a work week. Providing a secure, consistent user experience at the endpoint – one that contributes to quality of care - is now more important than ever.

  • Making The Invisible Visible
    6/18/2020

    Now, more than ever, optimizing expensive and complex hospital resources like operating rooms (ORs) is a necessity for hospitals and health systems. Maximizing use of open and block time, implementing more cases during prime/staffed hours, and creating more predictable schedules translate into increased OR profitability and more predictable use of “out of OR” resources. All of this directly impacts a hospital’s bottom line.

  • Why HIT Is Important For Fighting The Opioid Crisis
    4/26/2019

    The opioid crisis is a widespread problem in the United States and elsewhere. However, HIT is helping us make strides toward conquering it.

  • Cost Transparency Is Not Enough — Engagement Is Critical
    6/21/2016

    It’s more imperative than ever for health plans and employers to offer not only cost transparency tools, but support them with proactive engagement. Engagement is key to driving utilization of cost transparency and provider search and, thus, cost savings. Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association did a study on cost transparency and its results. They found that, rather than helping members spend less and save, health spending actually increased for the member populations. The word that was not mentioned? Engagement.

  • Rugged Mobile Solutions Take Emergency Response To New Heights
    10/22/2013

    For fire fighters, police officers, and EMTs, working more efficiently isn’t about cutting costs — it’s about saving lives.

  • 5 Ways Cloud Computing Is Impacting Healthcare
    10/2/2019

    There has been a massive shift in the generation, consumption, storage, and sharing of healthcare data. From conventional storage to digitalization of healthcare data, the healthcare industry has sure come a long way in optimizing its data management practices.

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