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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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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
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It's Your Life – How Much Is Your Healthcare Data Really Worth To You?5/10/2018
The news is full of stories each week about yet another personal data breach, theft, or questionable use of information. The truth is this is your data and, depending on your age, this collection started at birth and, in some cases, maybe even prior. Do you want this broadly shared? Before you answer, think about what that might mean for you.
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Charting The Course Toward Value-Based Care With A Healthcare Data Lake9/22/2015
There is no doubt healthcare providers are working hard to improve clinical outcomes. With healthcare reform progressing, providers are being asked to accelerate their goals and timetables to programmatically manage current and future high risk populations as their organizations make the transition to value-based payment structures. “All hands are on deck” is the cry as IT teams work to integrate EHRs, medical imaging, labs, and pathology at the same time they are building better predictive analytic models to inform clinicians at the point-of-care. By Roberta Katz, Director, Healthcare-Life Sciences, EMC
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Healthcare's Unique Challenge: Managing Employee Spend9/12/2019
Healthcare facilities nationwide face increasing pressure to reduce costs across their organization. Providing patient care is the top priority. For that reason, healthcare executives take advantage of cost savings opportunities within administrative spend to reinvest in critical business areas. These reinvestment efforts enable them to provide better quality care.
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How Imaging Interoperability Creates Value For Emerging Healthcare Models11/14/2016
Value-based imaging, according to the American College of Radiology’s Imaging 3.0 initiative, is the path to moving radiology as a specialty out of the fee-for-service modality and into the care-quality improvement and patient-experience enrichment model upon which reimbursements for all healthcare providers will soon be based. By Matthew Michela, President and CEO, lifeIMAGE
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Is It Bad Debt Or Charity Care? The Right Way To Measure Uncompensated Care11/11/2016
As part of the Affordable Care Act of 2009, new requirements were introduced relating to community benefits for nonprofit hospitals to meet in order to qualify for 501(c) (3) tax-exempt status. By Lori M. Jones, chief revenue officer, Connance