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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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Why Patient Matching Is A Critical Tool For Leveraging Social Determinants Of Health11/14/2018
In the pursuit of population health and accountable care success, providers are increasingly looking for tools that extend out into non-clinical or traditional healthcare settings to provide a complete picture of one’s health. Because individuals are heavily influenced by socioeconomic and behavioral forces, stakeholders are recognizing the significance of social determinates of health (SDOH) data in achieving value-driven, community-based outcomes.
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Improving Nurse Satisfaction Requires Root Cause Solutions5/4/2017
A recent RNnetwork survey found half of the nurses they surveyed (49.8 percent) have contemplated switching professions, with 27 percent citing overwork as the reason. By Ashley Walsh, MHA, Sr. Financial Analyst and former Perioperative Business Manager, UCHealth
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4 Things Providers Should Look For In EHR-Integrated Patient Engagement Software12/17/2019
Today’s new healthcare technologies are purposely built to integrate with EHR systems to unlock the treasure trove of data and patient insight that sits within them to make healthcare faster, smarter and more effective. The goal of EHR-integrated solutions is to improve patient care and to help ease the burden of physicians, who already feel like they spend way too much time in front of a computer screen. As it stands, seven out of 10 primary care doctors believe EHRs contribute to physician burnout and cut into valuable time they can spend with patients.
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Achieving Clinical And Financial Benefits From Vaccination Programs3/23/2017
While vaccinations in the U.S. are low for pneumococcal pneumonia, incidences of the disease are not: nearly one million adults contract the disease every year. By Jennifer Kuroda, Quality Improvement Manager, SwedishAmerican Health System — A Division of UW
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Leveraging Comparative Data To Improve Value-Based Contract Performance7/5/2017
Whatever the future holds for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the move from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursements is expected to continue. By Matt Waltrich, RemitDATA
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Solving Healthcare's Biggest Security Challenge: Low-Tech, High-Success Social Hacking1/20/2017
I recently came back to work after having brain surgery to remove part of a non-cancerous tumor that had wrapped itself around my optic nerve. Probably like any CIO who finds himself in the hospital, I spent some of my time there thinking about the technology the medical team used to plan and deliver my care. By Scott Youngs, chief information officer, Key Information Systems