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Siemens Healthineers – Ultrasound Usability Test
Jun 17th, 2018Siemens 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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How a Large National Payer Reaped the Benefits of Strategic DevOps
Jun 14th, 2018How 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
May 2nd, 2018How 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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Using Data to Transform the Consumer Experience
Mar 1st, 2018As 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
Feb 21st, 2018Healthcare 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
Jan 3rd, 2018Ambient 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 […]
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Design-Led Engineering
My Diabetes Coach – A Holistic Care Management Solution
Nov 14th, 2017The My Diabetes Coach solution is designed to improve and strengthen the teamwork between parent and child in diabetes management. Establishing and encouraging good practices and patient compliance at an early stage will provide significant benefits to the patients over the years by mitigating the complications that can result from non-compliance. Most diabetes management solutions […]
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Best Practices for Incorporating Wearable Health Tech
Aug 16th, 2017Wearable health tech is exploding. According to research statistics portal Statista, the value of the global wearables market, which was valued at a mere $6 million in 2010, is expected to grow to more than $12 billion next year. But if you build it, will they come? No, says this report from the PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ Health […]
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Advancing Population Health Management and Automating Coding Through NLP
Aug 10th, 2017Global Leader of Healthcare Coding Software Brings Enterprise Technologies to Fruition Overview The client is a global leader in coding, classification, grouping and performance management software and consulting services for 7,500 hospitals in more than 20 countries worldwide. The company provides intelligent software, data analytics and strategic expertise to help providers as well as government […]
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Why Merging Business Analyst (BA) and Quality Assurance (QA) Roles Is a Smart Move for Your Product Development Strategy
Aug 9th, 2017As the healthcare industry continues to change and evolve, the demand for advanced healthcare technology is on the upswing. Development teams find themselves hard-pressed to deliver technology faster and more efficiently. Healthcare organizations and vendors developing new technologies are the perfect candidates for the Agile practice, where overlapping, cross-functional roles and frequent collaboration are keys […]
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How Integrating Business Analyst (BA) and Quality Assurance (QA) Teams Drives Successful Application Development, Delivery
Jul 19th, 2017What BA/QA Integration Can Do BA/QA integration identifies defects early in the process, when they can be remediated much more inexpensively. The merging of these roles creates more contextual knowledge among the team members, and they are able to propose ideas for improvement related to functionality, compliance and quality. Eliminating the silos between the two […]
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A new chapter in emids story, with Encore acquisition
Jul 17th, 2017Our healthcare IT expertise just got stronger. emids recently acquired Encore Health Resources, a leading health information analytics and technology consulting company. Encore helps providers plan, implement, and optimize clinical data systems to meet the evolving healthcare IT landscape. It develops analytics to fulfill their growing information and reporting needs. The enterprise brings a team […]