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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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  • DeKalb Medical Center Secures Patient Data With Proofpoint
    11/15/2009
    As a medical center, DeKalb Medical Center is very sensitive about patient privacy. Recently, the organization conducted an audit of its data security and determined that outbound email was a high-risk area for protected health information (PHI) to leave the enterprise. As a first step, the medical center needed to secure its outbound email stream to ensure that PHI was not being sent out unencrypted. By Proofpoint
  • How to Approach Healthcare IT And Compliance: A Brief Tutorial On ISO 27799
    12/16/2014

    It’s been said time and again: healthcare regulations are a virtual alphabet/number soup. Entire books can be written about HIPAA regulations alone, so we’ll leave those aside for now. ISO 27001, ISO 27002, and ISO 27799 are only a few of the regulations required to protect individuals’ healthcare data. Noncompliance doesn’t only risk data loss, it also means you can incur large fines, individual, and class action lawsuits with massive punitive damages – and even be shut down. By Roy Peretz, VP of Product Management, Whitebox Security

  • Will HIMSS 18 Address The Disruption Of The Traditional Office Visit?
    2/12/2018

    Healthcare is evolving quickly and HIMSS 18 offers a broad range of healthcare issues to explore. New requirements for implementing HIT systems are changing as new health IT priorities and procedures emerge. Convergence in the health care sector is accelerating the need for interoperability, not just for EHRs, but also across clinical, financial, and operational systems. This need is also challenging and changing one of the biggest traditions in healthcare—the doctor-patient medical visit.

  • Improving The Decision-Making Process Through Behavioral Analytics
    8/12/2016

    Because no matter how brilliant or logical a strategy may seem in the abstract, if it doesn’t translate into the desired behaviors from the people being targeted it’s not going to have the desired effect. Here’s an example of how behavioral analytics are being used in healthcare to improve patient (and population) health, reduce hospital events including admissions, readmissions, and ER utilization, increase patient satisfaction, and lower the cost of care. By Dave Hom, Chief Evangelist, SCIO Health Analytics

  • The New Data Strategy Behind Population Health Has Nothing To Do With MACRA
    11/7/2016

    With the final rule issued by CMS for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the landmark payment system for Medicare physician fees is officially the new game in town. Physician incentives for care improvement and adoption of value-based care models are firmly in place.

  • What Will Be Physicians' Prescription To Cure Healthcare?
    9/28/2017

    Have you ever come across the story of Dr. Reed of MS Family Medicine Health care? The story where her consistent efforts to stay connected with her patients had helped them achieve not just their personal health goals but also improve their overall health status. By Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO, Innovaccer

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