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![Ken Congdon, Editor In Chief of Health IT Outcomes]( "Is Technology To Blame For Physician Burnout?")
Is Technology To Blame For Physician Burnout?According to a recent Medscape survey, 46% of physicians say they are burned out. How much is the drive towards health IT adoption contributing to this epidemic?
Will Robots Replace Healthcare Providers?
Automation has been making human workers superfluous for centuries, but until recently, workers whose jobs required high-level cognitive skills have been able to rest easy, confident no machine could possibly replace them when it came to making nuanced decisions based on the evaluation of complicated, sometimes contradictory data. By Khal Rai, Senior Vice President, Product Development & Operations, SRS Health
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![Robotic Systems For Food Safety]( "Will Robots Redesign Healthcare Policy?")
Will Robots Redesign Healthcare Policy?How robotics has the power to transform healthcare. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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![Field Service Report]( "Cybersecurity Report Shows 320% Increase In Hacking Attacks In 2016")
Cybersecurity Report Shows 320% Increase In Hacking Attacks In 2016Ransomware is now a prominent threat to hospitals. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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![Encryption For Backup]( "25% Of Healthcare Organizations Don't Encrypt Patient Data In The Cloud")
25% Of Healthcare Organizations Don't Encrypt Patient Data In The CloudCloud encryption alone is not enough; it must be paired with tougher regulation. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
HIMSS14 NEWS
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Labcorp And Epic Expand Collaboration To Advance Diagnostic Integration Across Hospitals And Health Systems5/12/2026
Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, today announced an expanded collaboration with Epic, the nation's leading electronic health record (EHR) supporting hospitals and health systems.
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Bayesian Health Receives First-Ever FDA Clearance For Continuous AI Sepsis Monitoring5/12/2026
Bayesian Health today announced that its sepsis flagging device has received FDA 510(k) clearance—the first continuous AI sepsis monitor ever to do so.
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Infinitus Introduces The First Solution To Evaluate Every Healthcare Interaction Led By AI Or Humans5/7/2026
Today, Infinitus Systems, Inc., healthcare's leading agentic communications partner powering more than 100 million minutes of conversations, announced the launch of Lens, a first-of-its-kind conversation insight engine within the Infinitus platform designed to provide evaluation of and insight into every healthcare interaction across both AI agents and human teams.
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Med Tech Solutions Acquires Avarion, Strengthening Its Role As A Managed Service Provider Across The Full Care Continuum5/6/2026
Med Tech Solutions (MTS), a leading provider of managed healthcare IT services, today announced the acquisition of Avarion, a two-time Best in KLAS HIT Advisory firm serving hospitals, health systems, and care networks.
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Verana Health Transforms Site Selection And Patient Enrollment In Clinical Trials5/5/2026
Verana Health®, a digital health company dedicated to revolutionizing patient care and clinical research through real-world data (RWD), has announced new functionality within its Site Explorer and Verana Trial Connect (VTC) applications providing end-to-end support and transparency for the entire site selection and patient enrollment process.
VIDEOS FROM HIMSS14
FEATURED CONTENT
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How Telemedicine Can Help Reduce Rural Hospital Closures And Provide Easier Access To Care8/31/2017
Since 2010, more than 80 rural hospitals have closed across the U.S. while nearly 700 are still at risk. By Bobby Park, MD, Co-Founder & Director of Virtual Health, RelyMD
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The Right Technology Can Curb The Soaring Cost Of Cancer Care Without Compromising Outcomes5/8/2019
As healthcare providers, it’s our duty to prescribe the best treatment for our patients. It’s also our fiscal responsibility to ensure that we are providing care that is accessible. But how can providers keep track of the staggering amount of data available to them, including emerging new therapies, better identification of subgroups of patients using biomarkers and other measures, disease outcomes, toxicities, and costs?
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Changing Patient Communications Preferences And The Race For Providers To Adapt6/15/2021
The Japanese scholar Kakuzō Okakura once said, “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” Or to put it in more colloquial terms—change sucks, but it’s a part of life, so deal with it.
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Time To Bring Automation To Prior Auth12/29/2017
Prior auths may be as popular among providers as ants at a picnic, but they have become a common and necessary part of the reimbursement process. As a result, being able to manage prior auths efficiently is critical to maintaining a healthy revenue cycle and avoiding issues such as denied claims, administrative waste, excessive staff turnover and, of course, patient dissatisfaction.
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The Role Of Telehealth And Digitization In The Medical Marijuana Industry11/27/2019
The medical marijuana industry is gaining momentum, and the progress is largely due to telehealth platforms and other health digitization efforts. Here's a look at some recent relevant developments impacting medical marijuana use and access.
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Let's Improve Revenue Cycle Management Through Better Communication12/28/2015
Revenue cycle management is the process of managing claims, payments and revenue generation, and the use of the technology to track the claims process at every point of its life so the physician performing the billing can follow (view) the process from start to finish and address any issues as they arise. A soundly managed RCM process allows for a steady stream of revenue for a healthcare organization. By Lindy Benton, president and CEO, MEA|NEA|TWSG