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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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  • Mobilizing Patient Engagement: Developers Leverage New Tools For Health Data Activation
    6/2/2016

    The latest Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey of more than 4,000 hospitals once again showed there is plenty of room for improvement when it comes to patient engagement, especially in terms of receiving the right information at the right time about medications and care transitions.

  • Stromberg Enterprise Time And Attendance For Healthcare
    11/24/2009
    Research indicates that staff and labor expenses encompass more than 60% of a healthcare organization’s operating costs. To better manage an organization’s most important business asset ? its employees ? an accurate time and attendance system is critical. By Stromberg
  • How "Smart Hospitals" Handle Mission-Critical IT: They Don't Compete For Campus Resources
    3/15/2019

    Over the last several decades, the adoption of automated healthcare systems has dramatically accelerated in healthcare organizations, especially in the hospital campus environment. In fact, we are already transitioning from the “digital hospital” phase to the “smart hospital” phase, when it comes to the deployment of automated systems in hospitals that use state-of-the-art IT. This automation has led to specific service-level requirements for uptime and availability whether they operate with on-premise IT or with offsite IT service providers.

  • The Rise Of Telemedicine In Treating Addictions
    1/12/2017

    ​Lack of healthcare access to low-income residents in both rural and urban areas present a significant challenge in chronic disease treatment such as substance addiction. By Kumar Venkatesiah

  • Investment In Line Of Business Mobile Devices Reaches All-Time High
    10/28/2016

    With patient satisfaction and engagement rates as main drivers, growth for both rugged and consumer grade devices used for line of business applications in the healthcare vertical is projected continue through 2020. By Cameron Roche, Research Analyst, VDC Research

  • Patient-First: The State Of Wearables In Healthcare
    8/9/2018

    The trend towards taking a “patient first” approach—coupled with the consolidation of emerging companies in the industry—has increased pressure to bring innovative mobile applications to market more quickly. Wearables are at the top of this list. In fact, SNS Research estimates that by 2020, wearable devices and wearables in Healthcare will represent a market worth $40 Billion with over 240 Million annual unit shipments.

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