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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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Vertical offers proven Healthcare Communications Solutions for healthcare that integrate your existing phone system and data network using VoIP and IP technology, increasing productivity, patient satisfaction and administrative efficiency.
Pocket™ “Tablet” is Nurture’s new mobile workstation specifically designed to support the active work of healthcare professionals by accommodating both the demands of the task at hand as well as emerging portable tablet technology like the iPad, Xoom and Playbook.

Medications change rapidly, and innovative treatments often consist of a "cocktail" of drugs, so custom mixing of pharmaceuticals has become a major component of healthcare – one that necessitates an extreme degree of accuracy and tracking.

The BioWedge™ Finger Scanner is simply the world's best identification system. Easy-to-use & integrate...the applications are limitless!
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 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

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FEATURED CONTENT

  • Year-Over-Year In Healthcare: What Have We Learned?
    3/23/2016

    What has changed in healthcare within the past year? While preparing for and winding down from HIMSS16, I asked myself that very question. The industry’s most important event is not only a gathering of the leading organizations, powerful minds, and emerging technologies, it is also an opportunity for us to benchmark our progress and see where we are compared to where we were. The changes that have occurred since 2015 highlight some significant transformations in the structure and focus of the industry.

  • Wireless's Big Role In The Hospital Of The Future
    8/29/2018

    Hospitals can be very intimidating places. The barrage of people, equipment, sounds and even smells can compound the stress associated with any visit – from a traumatic injury to a blessed event like a child birth.

  • The Pressure To Publish Rapidly: The Risks Vs. Rewards Of Fast-Tracked COVID-19 Studies
    7/15/2020

    While time is of the essence as hospitals and health systems, drug regulatory agencies, and the general public prepare for the virus’s second wave, concerns around the dangers of accelerated research studies must also be considered.

  • Achieving Success With The 5010 / ICD-10 Change-Over
    2/8/2012
    SuccessEHS is a nationally acclaimed vendor providing Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solutions with Integrated Medical Billing Services.
  • Why The Future Of Remote Patient Monitoring Is The Future Of Healthcare
    9/1/2020

    Healthcare providers were no stranger to telehealth offerings when COVID-19 arrived in the United States this past spring. In fact, between 2016 and 2019, healthcare practitioner adoption of telehealth services jumped from 14 percent to 28 percent. The pandemic, however, has shown that the ability to provide remote consultative services must now be a core capability for providers.

  • A Better Data Governance Model
    10/26/2016

    Three key strategies for advancing analytics and health information exchange  By Barbara Antuna, MD, FACEP, ABPM-CI, Medical Informatics Specialist, Wolters Kluwer Health Language Solutions

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