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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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Will Robots Redesign Healthcare Policy?
How robotics has the power to transform healthcare. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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Cybersecurity Report Shows 320% Increase In Hacking Attacks In 2016
Ransomware is now a prominent threat to hospitals. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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25% Of Healthcare Organizations Don't Encrypt Patient Data In The Cloud
Cloud 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.
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How To Match Kubernetes Security To HIPAA Compliance7/8/2020
Healthcare organizations under the purview of HIPAA regulations know full well how critical demonstrable security is to avoiding regulatory action, steep fines, and reputational harm. But many businesses now taking advantage of Kubernetes and containerized environments have even more questions than usual when it comes to implementing compliance-achieving security processes.
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Health Tech Portfolios: Taking A Page From Big Pharma's Playbook1/11/2017
The proliferation of technology has injected a much-needed fresh perspective into the healthcare industry. By Blake Marggraff, CEO, Epharmix
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Making AI Real In Healthcare Requires A Chief Human To Lead The Way5/24/2018
Whether you call it cognitive computing, machine learning, deep learning or artificial intelligence (AI), the era of collaborative human-machine intelligence has begun, and the implications for healthcare are enormous.
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Virtual Visits Can Widen Access To High-Quality Healthcare6/17/2015
If you live in an urban area, you likely take for granted there will be numerous hospitals and physician practices (including those with high-level subspecialty care) within a short distance of home. But for much of the world, access to even basic healthcare can be difficult. Those who live in rural areas of the U.S. and other countries often must travel long distances to see a primary care physician. Critical access hospitals, which provide much of the care for rural Americans, are struggling. Many are expected to close in the near future. And access to specialists and subspecialists is even more difficult. By Sid Nair, VP & Global General Manager, Dell Services Healthcare & Life Sciences
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Case Study: Capital Projects Contract Audit11/18/2009Our client, a premier healthcare institution, hired a general contractor to construct a research building and outpatient facility. Cost increases and schedule delays prompted management to take a closer look at the construction contracts.
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Why Isn't Healthcare Doing More To Protect Against Cyber-Attacks?5/17/2016
It’s well established that healthcare is one of the most targeted industries for cyber-attacks. Over the past five years, attacks on healthcare institutions have risen 125 percent, and personal health information is now seen as 50 times more valuable than financial information on the black market.