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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

PRODUCTS TO SEE AT HIMSS14

Pocket™ “Tablet” is Nurture’s new mobile workstation specifically designed to support the active work of healthcare professionals by accommodating both the demands of the task at hand as well as emerging portable tablet technology like the iPad, Xoom and Playbook.
We've developed HIPAA Simplified to help our clients prepare for HIPAA readiness.
The Accounts Receivable module efficiently tracks customers, manages invoices, processes receipts and prints statements.
As the name "Anthro" implies, our strength is in our ergonomic designs and in our knowledge of how the human body works most comfortably and efficiently. While technology has changed significantly since 1984, our focus hasn't.
Now, your workgroup can take advantage of high-speed document imaging without breaking the bottom line. The fast, affordable Epson GT-2500 Series delivers remarkable scans up to 8.5x14, plus networking for small business environments.
Modernizing health IT is a key focus for economic recovery - governments around the world are funding strategic stimulus initiatives for IT investment in healthcare, such as the American Recovery & Reinvestment (ARRA) HITECH Act 2009.

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FEATURED CONTENT

  • 6 Technologies That Will Change Healthcare
    9/27/2019

    With the application of emerging technologies, this moment could turn into a perfect storm for healthcare. Technology is forcing the hand of insurance companies and healthcare conglomerates by driving down prices, improving efficiency and helping us achieve better health outcomes. Here are six technologies we can expect to bring huge changes in the healthcare market for 2020 and beyond.

  • Comparative Analytics Delivers 360-Degree View To Improve Billing And Collections Processes
    6/23/2017

    Q1 denial rates reached a national average of 16.1 percent By RemitDATA

  • Today's Healthcare Professionals Are Leveraging Social Media Conversations For Collaboration, Global Reach, And Real-Time Learning
    11/15/2018

    In today’s connected world, healthcare professionals (HCPs) are taking advantage of new ways to collaborate and social media is leading the charge. Collaboration has become a key factor for doctors using social media, allowing them to anonymously share experiences, insights and challenges. This type of collaboration simply wasn’t possible before the use of social media.

  • How To Leverage Technology Against Healthcare Fraud
    8/1/2019

    Health care fraud can come in all shapes and sizes. For example, an unscrupulous physician might use patient information to bill for services they didn't render. There is also something called medical coder unbundling, where a practice bills a patient for each separate step of the procedure.

  • VNA: A Better Way To Archive
    1/16/2015

    Given today’s broad healthcare challenges, it’s hard to be neutral about Vendor Neutral Archiving (VNA). Given its ability to translate data to a standardized format and enable communication across disparate IT systems, hospital departments, and enterprises, the VNA addresses today’s most crucial healthcare issues – enabling patient data communication across the continuum of care, creating a more complete patient record, and supporting Meaningful Use. Moreover, after years of little control over PACS and other important data, a VNA puts providers back in the driver’s seat and relegates vendors a secondary position. By Greg Strowig, COO, TeraMedica, Inc.

  • The Power Of A Hybrid Cloud Storage Infrastructure For Data-Intensive Healthcare Organizations
    1/15/2020

    Today, healthcare organizations (HCOs) are experiencing a “data tsunami.” This is being driven in part by advances in medical imaging and genomic research—with new and larger file types—and it’s also the result of an aging population that is simply using healthcare more. The dramatic growth of data in different formats and systems, along with the sensitivity of that data, presents HCO IT managers with the question of how best to store and manage these digital assets in an increasingly cloud-centric world.

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