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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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FEATURED CONTENT

  • NEC Display Solutions For The Healthcare Industry
    11/24/2009
    In a world that’s becoming increasingly fast-paced, on-demand and interconnected, going digital is a necessary transition for today’s healthcare provider. By NEC Display Solutions of America

  • Case Study: Berkshire Health Systems, Inc. Automates ED Charge Entry And Coding Process For Meditech Users
    9/16/2009
    Berkshire Health Systems is a private, not-for-profit organization serving western Massachusetts. With 350 beds, it is the region?s leading provider of comprehensive healthcare services, and serves the area through a number of affiliates. By Biz Tech
  • How Location Data Can Aid The Fight Against COVID-19
    4/21/2020

    The effects of COVID-19 have rapidly spread across the globe – testing the limits of both the population and the public health sector. High in-demand medical services are countered by disruptions in daily operations as hospitals struggle to function in the face of overcapacity, understaffing, and information deficits. However, efforts to curb the outbreak have been in effect as public health experts look to location data as a means of alleviating the pressure on our already overwhelmed healthcare systems.

  • Imaging Moves Into The Mainstream
    7/28/2011

    Misperceptions about 2-D imagers are changing fast, which is why 2-D imagers are the fastest-growing category of bar code readers. Only a few years ago, 2-D imagers were (wrongly) considered a niche technology mostly used for reading 2-D bar codes. Now they are becoming the technology of choice for most bar code applications, and lasers are on the way to becoming a niche technology. By Intermec

  • Community Hospital IT: When To Optimize, When To Replace
    5/20/2015

    Does your community hospital leadership expect new technology to solve old problems? If so, it’s time for a perspective shift. In reality, optimizing your hospital’s existing technology and adjusting processes accordingly is usually the quicker, more cost-effective option. Buying new systems won’t automatically make problems go away. By Phil Stravers, ICE Technologies, Inc.

  • 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.

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