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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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OSi began a decade ago as a group of transcription industry experts saw the need to offer hospitals and large clinics the resources and technology to help combat rising transcription volumes and escalating costs.
We've developed HIPAA Simplified to help our clients prepare for HIPAA readiness.
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
The Ultra Phoenix is an integrated state-of-the-art touch-screen computer-based nurse call system.
digiChart NetPractice integrates our Internet-based electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management system (PMS) solutions. Designed specifically for the workflow of OB-GYN practices, digiChart NetPractice allows you to manage all of your clinical, financial and administrative functions.
Vexira Antivirus Central Management Solution (CMS) is an easy to use, powerful and comprehensive central management application for Windows networks.

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FEATURED CONTENT

  • Time To Bring Automation To Prior Auth
    12/29/2017

    Prior auths may be as popular among providers as ants at a picnic, but they have become a common and necessary part of the reimbursement process. As a result, being able to manage prior auths efficiently is critical to maintaining a healthy revenue cycle and avoiding issues such as denied claims, administrative waste, excessive staff turnover and, of course, patient dissatisfaction.

  • AHIMA 2009 Video Booth Visits
    10/27/2009
    Ken Congdon, chief editor at Health IT Outcomes, shares conversations with vendors while at AHIMA 2009.
  • The e-Prescribing Evolution: Today's Benefits And Tomorrow's Possibilities
    1/3/2017

    Less than a decade ago, only 7 percent of physicians prescribed medications through EHRs. Thanks to regulatory nudges and incentive programs such as 2009’s Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, along with advances in health IT solutions stemming from those movements, like Meaningful Use, that rate jumped to 70 percent in 2014

  • Reimagining The EHR For Improved Physician Well-Being
    6/15/2020

    Electronic health record (EHR) systems were introduced to the healthcare ecosystem to streamline document workflows and make sharing patient information easier. However, it’s no secret that EHR systems have fallen short of their promise—leading to clinician stress and burnout and less time for interaction with patients.

  • Is It Bad Debt Or Charity Care? The Right Way To Measure Uncompensated Care
    11/11/2016

    As part of the Affordable Care Act of 2009, new requirements were introduced relating to community benefits for nonprofit hospitals to meet in order to qualify for 501(c) (3) tax-exempt status. By Lori M. Jones, chief revenue officer, Connance

  • Case Study: Adding Disk To Backup
    10/27/2009
    The old Northeast Delta Dental system provided great protection—data was backed up and tapes were taken off-site every day as best practices would dictate—but the system had become fragmented and complex. “We never had time or resources to duplicate tapes, so when we had to restore a file—something we do several times a week—it was extremely slow,” explains Northeast Delta Dental’s Manager of Networking and Technical Support, Dan Kaplan. “We had to get tapes returned from the off-site facility and re-load them to restore anything. It took hours, with significant manual intervention. By Quantum

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