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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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Intelligent Wellness Automation Arrives In 20171/24/2017
Automation may summon dystopian visions of a labor force crowded out by machines that work 24/7, don’t take breaks, or demand a competitive benefits package. But, according to Accenture’s report Intelligent Automation Is Changing Healthcare, 2016, “Intelligent automation really means combining technology with people to get a job done — either in a more effective way or a more productive way.” By Sam Salbi, CEO, FitLyfe
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EMR Roadblock Assuaged8/7/2012
The transition to electronic charting in low-acuity environments is one thing; the transition in high-acuity departments is quite another. In critical care and ICUs, nurses spend an astounding amount of time checking — and rechecking — each patient’s status.
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Why The Home Healthcare Industry Is Prime For A Technological Revolution11/29/2018
The healthcare industry conjures up images of doctors, nurses, and clinical staff dashing through hospital corridors. However, there is a whole other subsect of healthcare workers that cater to the outpatient population.
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Proactive Security Measures Essential To Preventing Data Breaches5/3/2016
When our organization, Oakland Regional Hospital, a 45-bed general acute care hospital in the Detroit metropolitan area, migrated to a new EHR system, we also had an opportunity to improve our data security policies and procedures. With our former EHR, our data security protocol was reactive based on reported incidents, which we realized was not sustainable from a risk management perspective.
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Before You Hit Send: Ensuring HIPAA Compliant Email Transmissions From Your Practice10/31/2017
Compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — or HIPAA — often keeps doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals up at night. Yet, since the healthcare profession requires an intense study and concentration, it’s no wonder that there is not a lot of mindshare devoted to learning the minutiae inside a dense rulebook filled with a complex set of regulations.
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Case Study: Munson Medical Improves Patient Safety With Wireless Monitoring4/13/2010Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is widely used to administer pain-control medication. But as the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) reports, the available evidence suggests a significant and underappreciated risk of serious injury from PCA in the post-operative period, including a low but unpredictable incidence of respiratory events in young healthy patients. By CareFusion