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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 BioWedge™ Finger Scanner is simply the world's best identification system. Easy-to-use & integrate...the applications are limitless!
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.
Fully integrated EMR and practice management software. Transfer all of your exams to AltaPoint with our EMR Exam Word Lists. Document Systems as Normal and annotate exceptions to the Systems in the exam. AltaPoint EMR is uniquely configured to allow any specialty to customize AltaPoint to accept entry for all of your exams. Any specialty will benefit from the use of our AltaPoint EMR.

The Intermec IF2 is a compact, cost-effective network reader designed to support diverse RFID applications in both enterprise and industrial environments that require a scalable RFID system with a low cost per read point.

OSi began a decade ago as a group of transcription industry experts saw the need to offer hospitals and large clinics the resources and technology to help combat rising transcription volumes and escalating costs.
This kit will give the DVO1000MD an audio narration feature enabling an audio track to be record onto a DVD as video is being recorded. This feature can later be used for review, training and to satisfy legal concerns. The kit contains a Rane Microphone Amplifier, Sony ECM-673 Microphone, XLR/RCA Adapter, XLR Male to XLR Female Cable and RCA/RCA Y Cable.

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    5/4/2015

    No one in healthcare has a minute to waste. This complexity consumes more “people energy” all the time. Often talking about improving EHR usability feels like discussing philanthropy while sinking into bankruptcy. It doesn’t seem to fit. By Dan Nikkel, ICE Technologies

  • Rx For Rejected Claims: Automate Patient Registration
    2/14/2017

    You don’t have to be a political pundit to see 2017 could be a tough year for healthcare administrators. By Bruce Ackerman, Executive VP of Global Sales, Acuant

  • How To Identify Patient Retention And Leakage 'Forks In The Road' And Choose The Right Path
    12/9/2019

    Patient leakage from a health system network is an emerging critical issue facing healthcare leaders. As Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements continue to negatively affect operating margins for even high-performing health systems, competition for privately insured patients is increasing. To compensate for flat or shrinking fee-for-service revenue from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, many health systems are participating in the agency’s value-based care payment programs; while this presents new revenue opportunities, it also puts pressure on systems to improve outcomes.

  • Preeminent Doctor Enhances Patient Care And Improves Efficiency With A Fujitsu Stylistic ST5000 Tablet PC-Based Solution
    7/16/2009
    To create a highly efficient, consistent, and cost-effective way to evaluate and treat patients while easing the burden of medical documentation and gathering comprehensive data on patient outcomes. By Fujitsu
  • Participation Powers Healthy Changes: Proven Group-Based Intervention
    1/24/2018

    Health systems urgently need to manage chronic diseases as 86 percent of each U.S healthcare dollar goes to chronic disease related care. Astoundingly, chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. New York based Off The Scale Health has combined the best technology with the best of group-based intervention to address the epidemic in a new and novel way.

  • Vanguard Urologic Institute Reduces Patient Wait Times Via Self-Service
    1/18/2011
    This case study highlights how a self-service kiosk registration solution allowed Vanguard Urologic Institute to reduce average patient wait times to 2 minutes, versus the national average of 21.3 minutes.

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