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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?

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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Adaptive Biotechnologies And Flatiron Health Announce Integration Of clonoSEQ MRD Testing Into OncoEMR7/1/2025
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ADPT), a commercial stage biotechnology company that aims to translate the genetics of the adaptive immune system into clinical products to diagnose and treat disease, and Flatiron Health, a leading healthtech company dedicated to expanding the possibilities of point-of-care solutions in oncology, today announced the integration of Adaptive’s clonoSEQ® test for measurable residual disease (MRD) assessment in lymphoid malignancies into OncoEMR®, Flatiron’s cloud-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform.
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Bridge Joins The Elation Health Partner Hub To Elevate Patient Engagement For Elation EHR Users6/19/2025
Bridge, a leader in white-labeled patient engagement technology, today announced a new partnership with Elation Health, the clinical–first Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform trusted by more than 30,000 primary-care providers.
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Introducing HealthVerity Notes: Verified Clinical Narratives Now Available For Real-World Research And Commercial Use6/18/2025
HealthVerity, the leader in privacy-protecting technologies and the nation's largest verified healthcare and consumer data ecosystem, today announced the launch of HealthVerity Notes, a modular, de-identified dataset built from over 2.5 billion unstructured clinical EHR notes that employs novel methodologies to preserve the full note.
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CliniComp Expands EHR System To Post Anesthesia Care At VA San Antonio, Enhancing Coordinated Care Delivery6/17/2025
CliniComp, the pioneer in high-performing, reliable electronic health record (EHR) solutions, today announced the expansion of its system to include Post Anesthesia Care environments at VA San Antonio.
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Oracle Health Community Care Improves Care In Mobile, Home, And Rural Settings6/17/2025
Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Health Community Care, a cloud-based mobile extension of the Oracle Health Foundation electronic health record (EHR).
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Chronic Care Management 101: How Providers Can Make A Remarkable Difference11/11/2019
The provider community strives day and night to improve patient outcomes and contribute to the dream of value-based healthcare. However, the complexity of chronic diseases renders strategies ineffective and prevents them from reducing available utilization. In the US, chronic diseases account for 75 percent of all healthcare spending, to the tune of $3.5 trillion. In fact, every 6 out of 10 U.S. adults is living with a chronic condition.
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Hybrid Mobile Computing Solution For Healthcare12/1/2010
Across hundreds of hospitals and years of clinical experience, Motion has witnessed the evolution of the hybrid work environment. Hospitals that are looking to improve operations and workflow purchase a cart and add a computer for added mobility. By Motion Computing, Inc.
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2020 Trends, Predictions, And Promising Applications For Technology And Healthcare12/20/2019
We see the most promising applications in healthcare when real time decision making using simple data sets can relieve the burden on the caregiver and drive better outcomes for patients. For example, alarm fatigue in hospitals - both clinically and operationally - is a cause of lost productivity and decreased patient safety. AI technology can be applied to a smart pump to only sound an alarm when there is a critical need for intervention and to initiate an escalation process if there is no response.
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Leveraging Mobile To Bring Caregivers Back To The Patient Bedside6/25/2014
On any given day, nurses are caregivers, psychiatrists, comforters, teachers, and friends. In fact, the critically important role nurses play in the patient recovery process is difficult to define – and hard to imagine doing without. It is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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Apple's New EHR Move Puts Security Onus On Patients3/30/2018
The debate between accessibility and data privacy is not a new discussion, especially as technology continues to advance and develop. Since medical records were first digitized and the first EHR system was developed, the health care sector has had to manage and respond to issues facing health care coverage, privacy and security.
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Achieving Competitive Differentiation Through Workforce Diversity And The Role Technology Plays9/11/2018
In this era of skilled shortages in healthcare, recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce is no easy task. Yet, it is one of the top priorities of results-oriented healthcare organizations today. Successful diversity programs yield impressive benefits—from greater patient satisfaction to improved outcomes and increased staff productivity. Fortunately, modern talent management technology can help overcome the hiring obstacles.