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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

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.
The Philips Digital Pocket Memo 9600 series sets new standards in advanced functionality and style. Voice commands, on-board file encryption and password protection are but a few of the powerful features of the 9600. The ergonomic design lends itself to unparalleled user friendliness to create dictations, and the intuitive controls are easy to use.
The LMD-3250MD 32” 1920x1080 HD monitor is the latest edition to Sony's comprehensive range of medical grade LCD displays. This 32” widescreen monitor offers a 10-bit panel driver, 10-bit signal processing and Sony ChromaTRU color balance technology for ultra high performance.
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.
The BioWedge™ Finger Scanner is simply the world's best identification system. Easy-to-use & integrate...the applications are limitless!
DICOM medical imaging SDK
  • Create and view DICOM files
  • Support both still image and video files
  • Scanning and compression, including PDF
  • Viewing, annotation, and printing

HIMSS14 NEWS

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.

  • It's Time To Expand Our Thinking About Interoperability
    4/15/2020

    For healthcare delivery to become efficient and friendly to providers, the healthcare workforce at large, and the consumer, we need to broaden our definition of interoperability beyond the sharing of standardized clinical history.

  • Video: Emdeon Discusses Clinical Solutions At HIMSS 2011
    3/7/2011
    At the HIMSS 2011 show in Orlando, Miriam Paramore, Senior VP of Clinical Services for Emdeon, discussed the company’s new range of clinical solutions and their expected impact on healthcare facilities.
  • Improving HCP Interaction And Performance Through Biosensors
    5/11/2020

    As functionality expands, and cost decreases, advanced biosensors are playing an increasing role in healthcare. While most of that opportunity and discussion have focused on patient monitoring, there’s an equally critical impact area: healthcare providers, themselves.

  • Wellframe Partners With Boston Scientific To Deliver Digital Heart Health Management Solution
    4/15/2019

    Cardiology organizations today are under increasing pressure to improve quality and outcomes performance across a variety of measures, whether it’s an organizational priority, regulatory need, or quality improvement initiative. And the stakes are high: organizations who don’t succeed could be risking penalties or leaving revenue on the table for risk-based contracts, attractiveness for narrow networks, readmission penalties, new bundled payments, and MIPS.

  • The 3 Types Of Insider Threats And How To Stop Them
    12/21/2016

    Healthcare cybersecurity threats are rising at an alarming rate. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there were 253 reported instances of healthcare breaches in 2015 resulting in the theft of over 112 million records. According to a Ponemon Institute study, 90 percent of organizations reported suffering from at least one data breach in the last two years, with 45 percent reporting five or more breaches.

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