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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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Fighting Fire With FHIR: Driving Healthcare Interoperability10/12/2017
Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR): improving interoperability and provider access to data. By Gavin Robertson, CTO and SVP, WhamTech
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The Quest For Personalized Medicine: What Healthcare Can Learn From Retail10/20/2016
When it comes to personalized service, hospitals, health systems, and labs can learn a lot from retail. For example, Amazon — which prides itself on its customer obsession — treats getting products to its customers like it’s a life or death mission. By Brad Bostic, founder and CEO, hc1.com
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Could The Public Cloud Cure Healthcare's Data-Breach Epidemic?10/5/2016
The financial services industry has taken steps to shore up security and devalue stolen payment-card data on the black market by using technologies such as EMV (chip-and-PIN) in smart credit and debit cards, and hackers have shifted their target to medical records. By Rich Campagna, VP Product, Bitglass
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Technology To Track The Spread Of COVID-198/11/2020
Practically the entire world is focused on stopping the spread of COVID-19. Many methods have come to mind for doing so. One is contact tracing. Though a bit controversial, there are technologies that can be used for this application. One such promising technology is to use a graph database. And it has already been proven in a real case.
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Providers Must Engage Themselves, If They Want To Engage Patients8/31/2016
There is a lot of talk these days about patient engagement, but what does that mean when it comes to value-based purchasing? According to the National Business Coalition on Health, value-based purchasing is “a demand side strategy to measure, report, and reward excellence in healthcare delivery.” By Scott Logan, Vice President of Marketing, Enghouse Interactive
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Putting Patient Relationship Management First To Help Those With Chronic Care Needs4/13/2017
Why practices don't need additional technology purchases or staff to enhance care with CCM. By Jim Higgins, CEO and founder, Solutionreach