
We’re publishing this article in collaboration with our friends at VUEMED, who have encountered the same obstacles we have when trying to implement a new program at a healthcare facility.
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We’re publishing this article in collaboration with our friends at VUEMED, who have encountered the same obstacles we have when trying to implement a new program at a healthcare facility.
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This week marked the forty-second birthday of a technology without which modern healthcare would be impossible.
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It’s typical for improvements to the healthcare industry to be filed under “wouldn’t that be nice,” but being on the front line of the coronavirus crisis has bumped up some technological improvements to “how do we get that implemented yesterday.” We’ve once again teamed up with our friends at Career Karma to examine a few tech trends changing the healthcare industry, particularly with regard to COVID-19 response.
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In their annual review of tech improving the healthcare industry, online journal CIOReview put Z5 Inventory at the front of the class of 2021.
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You can't know everything about every emerging technology. But you can know how to evaluate a new tech vendor.
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We get that the struggle right now is just to keep your head above water. But that can easily turn into treading water.
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Count sheets have been a fixture of healthcare inventory for decades. And they suck.
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Leadership in healthcare, like in any other business, is a race, and everyone is jockeying for a better position.
But the thing about positions - even in the C-suite - is that anyone can have them. And if you're not constantly speeding ahead, you might get passed up by someone who is.
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