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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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Healthcare industry today is focused on improving the quality of care and operational efficiency, while reducing costs and optimizing its backend operations. By Infosys Technologies Limited

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.

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  • Outmigration Can Be Solved
    2/27/2017

    With the shift to value-based care, building a preferred network of high quality providers is increasingly a top priority for leading healthcare organizations. By Chris Lukasiak, Senior Vice President at MyHealthDirect

  • Cybersecurity For C-level Healthcare Executives
    10/26/2018

    Along with mitigating risk at an individual level, there’s an obvious requirement to ensure the systems, networks, and devices we rely on are protected against attacks from an ever-increasing number of malicious actors. Several attacks have gained ground in recent months to devastating effect, and its C-level executives that carry the ultimate responsibility for resolving these issues and preventing future catastrophe.

  • Achieving A PACS Neutral Archive
    7/14/2010
    What is a PACS-Neutral Archive? Why should one consider a PACS-Neutral Archive? How does an organization achieve a PACS-Neutral Archive? This paper will answer these questions and discuss the challenges and nuances related to achieving this goal.
  • Will HIMSS 18 Address The Disruption Of The Traditional Office Visit?
    2/12/2018

    Healthcare is evolving quickly and HIMSS 18 offers a broad range of healthcare issues to explore. New requirements for implementing HIT systems are changing as new health IT priorities and procedures emerge. Convergence in the health care sector is accelerating the need for interoperability, not just for EHRs, but also across clinical, financial, and operational systems. This need is also challenging and changing one of the biggest traditions in healthcare—the doctor-patient medical visit.

  • Guide For Integrating Preventive Healthcare Services: Payers, Patients, And Providers
    3/27/2019

    According to the Polsinelli-TrBK Distress Indices Report, 20 hospitals have filed for bankruptcy since 2016. Looking ahead through 2019, medical cost trends remain stable, but extremely high as healthcare costs continue to rise. HRI projects 2019’s medical cost trend to be 6 percent. This is consistent with the last five years, which have seen trends between 5.5 percent and 7 percent. By integrating preventative healthcare services, payers, patients and providers can all look forward to better results.

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