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HTO Robot Nurse Will Robots Replace Healthcare Providers?

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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The Ultra Phoenix is an integrated state-of-the-art touch-screen computer-based nurse call system.

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.

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.

Web 2.0 is profoundly changing the way we work and interact. More than 90 of the top 100 Web sites are categorized as social networking or search sites, supporting dynamic or user-generated content. Many organizations are embracing the Web as a business platform, but Web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and RSS feeds, render traditional security technologies such as antivirus, Web reputation, and basic URL filtering ineffective.
Primera’s BravoPro, the world’s best-selling two-drive, 100-disc capacity disc publisher, has now become the BravoPro Xi-Series.
PrognoCIS EMR has specialty templates, encounter scripts and key equipment integration points ideal for the Endocrinology practice. Our technology enables plug and play integration with most Endocrinology hardware. The user interface is ideal, tab formatted, user friendly, intuitive and fast. Endocrinologists using PrognoCIS EMR save time with automated SOAP (Progress notes) in addition to elimination of transcription costs, HL7 integration, ePrescriptions and more.

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  • More Ps Please — Rethinking The Marketing Mix For Healthcare
    7/15/2016

    Even if you are not in marketing, you’ve likely heard of Marketing’s Four Ps — product, price, promotion, and place. These have been the Holy Grail for marketers since Philip Kotler popularized the concept over 50 years ago. By Michelle Snyder, Chief Marketing Officer, Welltok

  • Are Open APIs The Future Of Meaningful Use?
    2/1/2016

    CMS has finally conceded to the weaknesses of their EHR Incentive Program, or Meaningful Use (MU). In recent announcements, Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt admitted the program has lacked the focus on interoperability and usability it should have had and that it is time for a change. The new plan is to find a solution that ties together the incentive programs like MU and PQRS with the move towards value-based reimbursement and a deeper focus on data sharing. By Tom Giannulli, MS, MD, CMIO, Kareo

  • 5 Ways To Master UX In Fintech App Development
    2/10/2020

    The success of any mobile application will always lie with the satisfaction of the end user. Surprisingly, many apps have launched and failed because they could not create a product that catered to their customer’s needs. As we usher in a  new decade, millennials lead the way in mobile adoption, as institutions are having to rethink their approach and cater not only to a generation who values tradition over humanization, but also a demographic who favors connection, convenience, and rewards.

  • Why Effective PHM Requires A Real-Time Clinical Perspective
    11/30/2017

    Clinical laboratories have been an essential component of safe and effective care delivery since at least the early 20th Century. Yet only in recent years have healthcare providers begun to explore ways to leverage that clinical lab data, along with numerous other types of information, to manage populations of at-risk patients — even prevent potential adverse health events.

  • Understanding Compliance In The Cloud, Part 1
    2/10/2020

    The massive market shift from on-premise services to the cloud rolls on. And for the healthcare industry, a decision to jump on board with this kind of migration is more complex than simply choosing a cloud provider. Yet in order to stay competitive in a world of resilient, agile, and rapidly accessible infrastructure and interoperable data, healthcare providers, device manufacturers, prescription drug companies and many others are driven to pursue new and different storage and hosting solutions.

  • GAO Report On Privacy And Security: A Wake-Up Call For HHS?
    12/6/2016

    Latest cyber-attacks show it’s time to mandate adoption of identity management, cybersecurity practices to better protect PHI. By Michael Magrath, Director of Business Development, Healthcare, VASCO Data Security

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