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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

The Intermec SG20 is an affordable, high performance family of handheld scanners available in tethered or cordless models. Designed to the needs of healthcare, the SG20 helps to ensure that patient safety standards are consistently met.

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.
This unit is a sophisticated, feature-rich biometric time clock system, with the ability to perform job costing and department transfers. In addition, the Velocity 850 offers extended time tracking features such as break and lunch buttons and multiple pay rates.

PR2/PR3 durable mobile receipt printers are ideal for invoice printing and secure payment capture capabilities within the direct store delivery, field service, mobile point of sale and electronic citation markets.

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

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FEATURED CONTENT

  • 3 Myths About AI And Healthcare
    3/6/2018

    The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is finally becoming a reality. According to CB Insights, from 2012 to 2017 more than $2 billion was invested specifically in healthcare AI with companies that leverage machine learning algorithms. Additionally, technology giants Apple, Microsoft and Google are investigating entering the healthcare market, and Amazon’s secret health tech team 1492 is exploring a platform for electronic medical record data, telemedicine and health apps.

  • The Creative Intersection Of Medicine And IT
    8/8/2014

    Medicine is not often thought of as a creative industry. We focus instead on science and evidence.  Behind the science is a group of driven individuals who are focused on problem solving.

  • A Historical Look At The Evolution Of Clinical Decision Support
    1/4/2018

    When discussing the evolution of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) with regards to diagnostic imaging, it’s always good to step back from all of the acronyms and look at the big picture. This is especially true when it comes to the diagnostic process and quality of care.

  • Why Care Coordination Is A Business Problem Your IT Infrastructure Can't Support
    8/11/2015

    Care coordination is the “it” word in health care today – it’s a new job title, a new care collaboration, and delivery paradigm – and it even encompasses the idea of travel and hospitality services, depending on who you’re asking. The problem, however, is too many people are interpreting the idea of care coordination only as it relates to moving patients between different points of care within the health ecosystem. What is missing from the dialogue is any discussion about how the business of health care happens. By Bill Reid, SVP of Product Management and Partnerships, SCI Solutions

  • In The Pursuit Of Health, Community Will See Us Through
    11/16/2020

    Our society functions on the foundation of numerous social contracts: public education, civil liberties, fair taxes, criminal justice. The crises of this year have tested America’s social contracts in unprecedented ways and brought our nation to a time that will someday be reflected upon as a turning point. Yet our healthcare system, the importance of which we are now starkly reminded daily, persists outside the bounds of our social contracts—not fully embraced as a collective pursuit. Healthcare in America continues to be largely viewed as an institution citizens engage with on a very individualized level. We now face an opportunity to embrace a new take and work as a team to save lives.

  • Talking Tech And Natural Language Processing – Making It Work In Healthcare
    11/18/2020

    Futurists paint a bright picture of smart clinical technology: ask a chatbot what the right dose of ACE inhibitors is to give a patient with moderate aortic stenosis, and the all-knowing bot will spit out the right answer, based on millions of patient cases. Appealing? Absolutely. Ready for prime time? Definitely not.

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