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The Three Levers for Winning in Digital Transformation: Are You Ready?
“The only thing that is constant is change.” Heraclitus A confluence of disruptive forces is signaling a tectonic shift in the healthcare landscape– liquidity of data, expectations of a digital, tech-enabled consumer-grade experience, shift to risk-bearing models, ever-increasing cost pressures, and regulatory uncertainty. Imagine all the simple and convenient aspects of our lives today– banking, […]
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How a Health System Selected a Population Health Platform for Medicaid Program
emids helped a large healthcare organization select a new vendor and plan the implementation to meet New York State Medicaid requirements. Overview United Health Services (UHS) is an upstate New York integrated health system comprised of four hospitals, a senior residence, physician practices and a home health organization. In 2016, the organization was in a […]
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Design-Led Engineering
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Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Medical Care is the world’s leading provider of products and services for people with chronic kidney failure. The company wanted to gain a deeper understanding of a major client group—nephrologists—and to apply the insight in developing solutions to address their needs. In partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the United States, […]
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Data Engineering
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Client in Medical Devices
A world-leading medical device company turned to Emids for help designing a cloud-based solution to preserve and protect previously unrecorded patient data. Those who’ve been in an operating room (or seen one on TV) will recognize the pole-mounted medical monitoring devices displaying patient vitals in real time. What if there was a way to preserve […]
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Design-Led Engineering
4 Benefits of Using a Microservices Architecture in Digital and Connected Health Solutions
Dive into what microservices is and discover the benefits of implementing a microservices architecture when it comes to accelerating your digital and connected health solution’s time to market. Healthcare is poised for significant change over the coming years as a result of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), virtual assistants, sensors, and wearables. Significant investments […]
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Pushing the DevOps Needle with In-Sprint Automation
IT and software organizations began adopting the Agile method more than a decade ago in order to deliver releases in quick succession. DevOps came along soon after, narrowing the gap between concept and reality. DevOps is a significant shift in software development and testing, as it relies on automation and collaboration to improve how teams […]
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Design-Led Engineering
Life Sciences
Siemens Healthineers – Ultrasound Usability Test
Siemens Healthineers set out to design a new ultrasound machine with Sonographers ease of use in mind. Emids was brought in to help Siemens determine if they met their goal. Inexpensive, portable and non-invasive, ultrasound systems provide valuable, real-time insight into patients’ bodies. However, hard-to-use equipment can compromise scan quality, regardless of a sonographer’s expertise. […]
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Insights
How a Large National Payer Reaped the Benefits of Strategic DevOps
How a Large National Payer Reaped the Benefits of Strategic DevOps Modern software and IT organizations are defined these days by Agile and DevOps. The goals are to increase efficiency, accelerate time-to-market for new applications and services and be more responsive to customer needs. In 2017, Forrester Research reported that 50 percent of enterprises are […]
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Data Governance, Data Liquidity and the Data Chain of Trust
How the right data governance model can help healthcare organizations meet the demands of digital transformation By Randy Thomas, FHIMSS Senior Director, Value-based Consulting Value-based care. Population health management. Digital health. Healthcare consumerism. Promoting interoperability. All these evolving healthcare opportunities require consistent, accurate, reliable data. While the quantity of data created in healthcare continues to […]
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Consumer Experience
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Using Data to Transform the Consumer Experience
As patient data becomes more diverse and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning make analytics more intuitive, opportunities are growing for connecting disparate data throughout the healthcare industry and using it to make decisions, predict needs, identify risks, and strengthen trust and relationships with consumers. In healthcare organizations, CIOs are leading these […]
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AI, the IoT and the Potential for Healthcare Disruption
Healthcare has a future akin to The Jetsons: Sensors that track patients when they enter and leave their hospital room; real-time location technology that detects the flow of staff and the status of clinical equipment; pills that “report” medication adherence and software that predicts results from treatments. These technologies are New Age for most medical […]
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How the Internet of Things (IoT) Is Paving the Way for Ambient User Experience
Ambient user experience occurs when various technology systems and devices—and the data gathered by them—seamlessly interact and adapt to user needs based on the context in which they are used. This may or may not require a human touch. Gartner, which produces technology research for global firms, named ambient user experience one of the top […]