The main objective of process automation is reducing costs and boosting operational efficiency. As far as hospitals and other healthcare facilities are concerned, automation of processes improves clinical quality and work flow. Baptist Health is a healthcare provider...
Why Do Cloning Errors Occur in EHR?
The basic intention underlying the transition from paper-based documents to the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system is to improve patient care and reduce costs. The federal government has announced that health care practitioners who fail to achieve 'meaningful use'...
Mobile Photo Bill Payment Eliminates Need for Data Entry
In the current mobile-oriented Internet environment, it is a great challenge for financial service providers to implement tools and capabilities that can cope with changing consumer needs. Many banks have apps that allow customers to deposit checks by snapping photos...
Harvard Successfully Uses Data Mining in Immigration Studies
There is an enormous amount of data out there. This data explosion is the result of the availability of high-tech data collection tools and advanced database technology. Tremendous amounts of data are stored in databases, data repositories and information warehouses...
Using Data Mining Techniques to Enhance Clinical Decision-making
Various techniques have been introduced in recent years to predict heart disease. Tools and techniques in data mining help to discover hidden patterns and valuable information to help make important decisions. Recent research conducted by a group of Japanese...
University of Florida Revamping Document Management System
The University of Florida (UF) is upgrading its 30-year old student record keeping system. Most Universities have automated student records either by installing new software or by upgrading the existing system of student records. The main objective is to achieve...
Publishing Books? Digitize Your Print and Improve Your Readership
Self publishing is at an all-time high. New data from Bowker, the world's leading provider of bibliographic information management solutions, the number of self-published titles entering the marketplace has gone up five times since 2007. Bowker also reports that...
New Technologies Enhance Financial Data Mining and Analysis
With the advancements in technology, the way information is retrieved and organized is changing rapidly. In the field of financial data mining and analysis too, new technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL and Storm are enhancing access to complex and unstructured data....
XML or Extensible Markup Language and its Uses across Various Industries
XML or Extensible Markup Language is a language that sets down the rules encoding documents for sharing across the Internet. XML allows information to be shared, modified, and accessed across multiple platforms. In health care sector, electronic health records stored...
Data Mining: A Powerful Tool for Acquiring Business Intelligence
A recent report on Toward Freedom points out that the National Security Agency (NSA) is using data mining techniques to predict events such as political protests, pandemics, and economic crises. Experts are analyzing the US government-collected online data to...