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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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PulsePoint Secures Exclusive EHR Programmatic Partnership With Flora Health, Enabling Scalable In-Workflow Engagement With HCPs1/22/2026
PulsePoint, the leading technology company transforming healthcare marketing, today announced a strategic partnership with Flora Health, a healthcare technology company that supports coordinated point-of-care engagement by connecting technologies and partner solutions within existing electronic health records (EHRs) and health systems.
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Greenway Health® Launches Agentic AI Factory To Redefine The Future Of Healthcare Technology1/21/2026
Greenway Health, the modern leader in healthcare technology, today announced the launch of its Agentic AI Factory, developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Rapid Care Acquires DeepDoc To Expand AI-Powered Medical Record Intelligence1/21/2026
Rapid Care, an AI-driven healthcare technology company focused on addressing the industry's most complex operational and financial challenges, announces the acquisition of DeepDoc, an advanced artificial intelligence platform for medical record analysis and summarization.
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VectorCare Launches SoFaaS™ (SMART On FHIR As A Service)1/21/2026
Patient logistics and care coordination tech company VectorCare has announced the launch of SoFaaS™ (SMART on FHIR as a Service), a new infrastructure platform designed to dramatically accelerate how healthcare vendors, suppliers, and service providers build and deploy EHR-embedded applications.
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NCPDP Brings Pharmacy And Medication Standards Expertise To CMS Health Technology Ecosystem1/14/2026
NCPDP announced today that it has been selected to become part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Aligned Network.
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Healthcare Organizations Need To Think Big When It Comes To Cloud9/25/2018
The fact is, we’re living in what is now being called a multi-cloud world—one that is brought on by the convergence of market drivers with organizational initiatives that are fueling digital transformation. A few that top the list include building out the connected health ecosystem through the expansion of mobile and IoT devices and Big Data for genomics and molecular medicine collaborations. The initiatives, when coupled with new value-based care initiatives, bring together both internal and external players in the industry through mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
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Revenue Cycle Management: The Key To Achieving Success Under MACRA5/31/2017
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) aims to improve physician and other clinician payments by changing the way Medicare incorporates quality measurement into payments. At its core, the Act repeals the sustainable growth rate and authorizes the U.S. Department of Human and Health Services (HHS) to implement value-based incentives. Regardless of MACRA’s original intent to improve healthcare for both patients and physicians, the new legislation can result in negative implications on practices — particularly as it relates to revenue cycle management.
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The Illegible Medical Record: Are EHRs Helping?8/26/2014
Electronic health records help solve some problems, but they aren’t the panacea needed to clear up illegible chart notes sent to pharmacies. By Linda M. Girgis, MD, FAAFP
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Predictive Analytics And Business Intelligence: What Every Provider Needs In Its Labor Management Arsenal11/10/2014
To effectively manage labor in healthcare today, organizations need to be proficient in a number of areas. First and foremost, they need to have the right strategies and methodologies to reduce variances in practice and eliminate wasteful redundancies. The right strategies set the foundation for predictable and sustainable results. Once that is established the conversation can open to the elements everyone usually wants to talk about first: technology, specifically predictive modeling, analytics, and business intelligence. By Chris Fox, CEO, Avantas
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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
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HIT, AI, And Machine Learning: A Reality Check4/16/2019
In the healthcare IT space, there are two buzzwords du jour: artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These concepts—which are often used interchangeably, but have distinct meanings—have been linked to everything from drastically changing future patient experiences (undoubtedly true) to completely replacing physicians with robots (not likely).