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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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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 […]
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Tackling Telehealth Integration Challenges
Jun 28th, 2017Telehealth integration projects typically involve connecting systems, integrating data sets including cleansing and normalizing data, and integrating an increasing array of mobile devices. The grand goal is to connect all of these incoming mobile data streams to the core clinical systems—most importantly, the EMR. In many cases, telehealth integration with the lab and radiology information […]
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Creating a Provider Portal with Longitudinal Patient Medical History Using Data from Multiple Sources
Jun 23rd, 2017emids helped this provider of the healthcare industry’s most comprehensive suite of consumer experience platforms build bidirectional adapters to connect the provider portal with 30+ HIS systems.
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Building an Effective BA/QA Communication Pipeline
Jun 14th, 2017Communication is vital in Agile software development, where team members take on overlapping, cross-functional roles to design, develop, test and deploy, and where frequent collaboration is required. This workflow becomes more accelerated in DevOps, where extreme automation comes to play and weekly or daily releases are the norm. Nowhere is communication more vital in these […]