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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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With rich feature sets and extensive model options, the Gryphon™ product series from Datalogic Scanning represents the premium level of data collection equipment for general purpose applications.
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.
The Ultra Phoenix is an integrated state-of-the-art touch-screen computer-based nurse call system.
NetSuite is the #1 on-demand Accounting / ERP software application. NetSuite is also the first and only on-demand Accounting / ERP solution that supports all your back-office operations.
New legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley and the USA PATRIOT Act has significantly changed the regulatory landscape.

The Intermec SR61T handheld scanner family meets the needs of rugged applications in warehouse, distribution and industrial manufacturing, and also supports proof of delivery and point of service applications.

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FEATURED CONTENT

  • How Nintendo Therapy Can Improve Your Patient's Mental Health
    4/12/2017

    If you’re a critic of video games and how they shape young minds, you might want to reconsider as new insights indicate video games may help a person’s mental health instead of harm it as has been argued in the past. These assertions are based on research conducted on Nintendo Therapy and other visual forms of therapy over the past decade.

  • Healthcare's Spike In Cloud Adoption Raises Questions For Hospitals And Security Practitioners
    9/4/2018

    It might come as a surprise, being in one of the most highly-regulated industries around, that the healthcare sector has made significant strides when it comes to embracing the public cloud and the myriad cloud applications that exist today. Messaging apps like Slack enable rapid communication while file sync and share apps like Box enable instant collaboration. A good example of a cloud app that has become essential in large enterprises is Microsoft’s Office 365. Adoption in the healthcare industry has nearly doubled in since 2016, up from 30.9 to 57.3 percent in 2018. At the same time, with adoption of new technologies, the door is often left open for nefarious actors to take advantage of misconfigurations and careless employee practices that leave data exposed.

  • Real-Time Healthcare Data: A Game Changer For Navigating The Care Path In The Bundled Payment Era
    6/5/2017

    Population Health Management and Bundled Payment Models have created a high demand for innovation in healthcare information technology. Healthcare providers have historically operated in silos, but value-based care initiatives have highlighted benefits for looking at healthcare comprehensively and are financially structured to transform care accordingly.

  • Managing Complexity In Clinical Quality Measurement
    2/20/2013

    Healthcare industry dynamics are quickly changing due to greater focus on population health management and accountability of care through federal/commercial incentive programs (MU, PQRS, IQR, P4P) and payment reforms (shared savings, value-based purchasing).

  • Digital Health In An Interconnected World
    3/24/2017

    The human body is God’s masterpiece. It is unquestionably the most complicated and intricate machine of all — working perfectly when maintained correctly. Really, it’s a machine consisting of several different and interconnected machines. However, if the human body’s health fails, it can overshadow everything in life. Hence, it is important to monitor it at every stage — from a minor ache to major health problem.

  • Case Study: Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia
    9/23/2009
    Doctors are getting lab tests back faster, and that means they’re more efficient. They can ... accept more patients as a result. By Microsoft

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