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• As Medical Identity Theft Surges, Importance Of E-signature Security Rises

  8/7/2015

  The healthcare industry is a permanent and blaring target to the hunters of the dark web – a danger which healthcare IT professionals must be constantly prepared to meet on the virtual field of battle. By John Harris, SVP of product management, SIGNiX

• Top Digital Health Trends For 2020

  12/17/2019

  Last month saw the rollout of the latest upgrades to Amazon’s Echo speaker line: earbuds, glasses, and a ring that connect to Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa. These new products are just three examples of a growing trend to incorporate technology seamlessly into our human experience, representing the ever-expanding frontiers for technology that have moved far past the smartphone.

• Applying EHR Transition Lessons System Wide

  3/28/2014

  David Gibbons, executive VP & COO at UPMC Hamot discusses what “useful information” was brought to UPMC Hamot’s “Big Bang” from the previous “Big Bang” UPMC conducted at UPMC Northwest. Also discussed is the importance of re-banding patients the night before go live and why education both the ER and patient registration staffs prior to the transition is vital.

• Mental Health Quantified: How Technology Measures The Impacts Of COVID-19

  6/8/2020

  As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, people are increasingly looking at statistical data to understand how the situation is affecting all of us mentally. Research already shows the coronavirus pandemic has the potential to increase suicidal death exponentially. While public perception around the stigma of mental health has transpired for many years, new research has begun to quantify the real impact of mental health on the human psyche and body, much like weight gain is aligned with physical health.

• 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

• A Passionate Defense Of Scribes

  1/23/2015

  It is clear there is a major amount of tension around the cumbersome technology associated with most EHRs. Unfortunately, some are blaming the technology’s limitations on the ever-popular Medical Scribe. Many have gone as far as to insinuate the use of medical scribes is the reason why technology is not developing quickly to resolve EHR problems – this is like saying that citizens paying their taxes are to blame for the government not seeking to balance the budget and exercise appropriate fiscal control. By Michael Murphy, MD, CEO, ScribeAmerica