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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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The Mindray DP-6600 Portable ultrasound adopts advanced digital beam-forming (DBF) and tissue speciality imaging (TSI) technologies, which has realized improvement on the quality of images. Meanwhile, broadband and multi-frequency transducers enable clinical application in a wider range. 256-frame CINE loop and 16-frame images storage are set as standard configurations. USB ports and DICOM 3.0 enhance the storage ability and facilitate the image transportation. The great performance of the DP-6600 will definitely increase the accuracy of the diagnosis, thus to benefit both of doctors and patients
Perhaps more than in any other industry, healthcare organizations are being forced to re-examine their business processes. Rising costs, ongoing provider consolidation, and the need for HIPAA compliance solutions are all driving healthcare organizations to find new ways to improve operational efficiencies, increase productivity, and reduce expenses.
In the midst of the Information Age we face the reality that ever more digital content is being created, stored and distributed, and there’s no end in sight. With as much as 90% of that data being unstructured, such as documents, spreadsheets, images and the like, storage as usual will not suffice in this new reality as organizations demand simpler, more affordable, scalable and reliable storage for digital content. The increasing demand requires a scale-out architecture that delivers infrastructure that supports private and public storage clouds and can seamlessly scale to meet evolving business needs.
New legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley and the USA PATRIOT Act has significantly changed the regulatory landscape.
Confidential information abounds in healthcare, so healthcare providers must ensure that their records are easy and efficient to obtain, yet secure from unauthorized access.

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