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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
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How Revenue Cycle Technology Can Upgrade The Patient Experience2/7/2019
“We must improve the patient experience.” That statement has become a rallying care in the healthcare industry—and for good reason. In the era of patient consumerism, patients today demand more from their providers than great clinical care alone. In keeping with their other daily activities, they expect convenience and transparency — especially when it comes to the increasingly costly financial side of care.
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Financial Services Current State In Healthcare11/23/2009Financial service organizations are increasingly providing products and services to the healthcare community. While the medical lockbox may have been the first healthcare-specific product that banks1 offered to larger hospital systems, products have expanded to include a number of different services for payers, providers and consumers. By Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI)
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Top 5 Takeaways From The Federal HIT Strategic Plan2/6/2015
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released, for public comment, their Federal Health IT Strategic plan covering 2015 to 2020. The strategic plan is divided into five major goals guided by a “collect, share, and use” methodology: Expand Adoption of Health IT (Collect); Advance Secure and Interoperable Health Information (Share); Strengthen Healthcare Delivery (Use); Advance the Health and Well-Being of Individuals and Communities (Use); Advance Research, Scientific Knowledge, and Innovation (Use). By Paul Sliva, Health IT Consultant, ICE Technologies, Inc.
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A Focus On The User Experience: Unlocking The Full Potential Of Your Patient Portal12/3/2018
For many healthcare practices, having an online portal provides an easy way for patients to access their health information and receive online payments. But a patient portal has the potential to be so much more, delivering a wide range of benefits for patients and practices alike.
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Using Barcodes To Track More Than Just Medical Devices4/16/2020
Barcodes have long been relied upon in the healthcare industry to help reduce medical errors. They are a requirement for medical devices, but they also can be used across all types of medical assets to give healthcare organizations greater insight and control over how, when and by whom devices or equipment are used.
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What's Coming With The Next Generation Of Medical Devices? 6 Predictions2/24/2020
Manufacturers know how crucial it is to continually improve their medical device tech and focus on usability, convenience and other factors relevant to providers and patients alike. Here are six things likely on the way for medical devices.