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The global market for Electronic Medical Records will reach almost $40 billion by 2024, a 6.9 percent compound annual growth rate from the 2015 valuation of $21.4 billion, according to predictions from Coherent Market Insights.

Gartner analyst Tom Austin believes we are finally in the “Smart Machine Age.” By 2021, Gartner predicts smart machine revenues will reach $29 billion and 30 percent of large companies will be using them. Gartner also believes tech involving smart machines will be “the most disruptive class of technologies” over the next decade.

The difference between a funny mistake and an unfunny one is kind of the like the difference between major and minor surgery. If it’s my surgery, it’s major. If it’s yours, well then it’s no big deal.

Wrestler Enzo Amore is a certified G, (and bona-fide stud) and you can’t teach that. What you can teach, however, is what EMR certification is and whether you need it (spoiler alert, you probably do if you work with Medicare and Medicaid).

According to Samantha Weatherford, you know you’re a speech-language pathologist when you speak entirely in abbreviations, are often caught spending endless amounts of money in the dollar store and yelling “WHAT?! It’s for my JOB, ok?!?!” and have been known to talk to yourself in your room in funny voices for hours on end.

Medical Practice Management is a massive job, encompassing HR, facilities management, inventory management, interfacing with legal, accounting, marketing, payroll management, billing, interfacing with payers, and business strategy.

Y’all know what a portal looks like. A portal provides selective access to information and people. It features, at a minimum, built-in content management functionality including document management and search.

A computer inside another computer. Whoa. “Virtualization is the abstraction of IT resources that masks the physical nature and boundaries of those resources from users,” according to Gartner.

Have you ever had a customer ask you to put two medications behind your back, mix them up, pick one, and then give it to them? Then you are not the pharmacist who wrote into notalwaysright.com about a strange patient interaction.