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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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How Payers Are Collaborating In Population Health9/24/2015
It’s no surprise healthcare costs are significant — and growing. CMS announced in July that healthcare spending is projected to accelerate again, increasing an average of 5.8 percent a year until 2024. As a share of the economy, healthcare’s growth is anticipated to reach nearly 20 percent by 2024, from the current 17.4 percent. The so-called silver tsunami of 10,000 people turning 65 every day and enrolling in Medicare is one of the principal drivers of the projected expansion in healthcare spending as is the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansions. By Mark Caron, CEO, Geneia
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Harnessing The Power Of IoT For Efficiency In Healthcare Systems6/22/2017
In the age of mobile applications and constant connectivity, today’s patients expect the same level of technology and on-demand information in a healthcare environment as they have at home. By Dan McGinn, director of secure power systems, Schneider Electric
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Protecting Your Network From Hackers4/7/2016
Many healthcare organizations don’t realize just how many privileged accounts are on its network that insiders have access to. Periodically taking inventory of these accounts and getting rid of those that aren’t needed can go a long way toward protecting your organization’s network: think of it as a new type of spring cleaning.
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Sharing Ontologies Globally To Speed Science And Healthcare Solutions10/7/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is a clear example of how medical practitioners require swift access to enormous amounts of diverse information to efficaciously treat patients. They must synthesize individual data (vital signs, clinical history, demographics, and more) with rapidly evolving knowledge about COVID-19 and make decisions relevant to the conditions from which specific patients suffer.
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Chronic Disease Is Healthcare's Rising-Risk6/17/2016
The move to value based care is no longer a question of if or when, it’s now. As health systems prepare for impending change in their revenue, they must decide if they are going to lead, follow or resist the transformation at their own peril. Leading Health Systems are already partnering with value-based payers and creating shared and full-risk contracts. New leadership teams, focused on Population Health Management (PHM) are essential to success under new alternative payment models that reward maintaining a healthy population. As a competitive business necessity, health systems must continue the acquisition of value-based care payer contracts. Those contracts also include the acquisition of significant financial risk. PHM’s task is to identify, track and manage the real drivers of costs across their populations and in doing so, manage the risk. By Phil Trotter, leader, Exercise is Medicine, Felipe Lobelo, associate professor of Global Health, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, and Ashley John Heather, co-founder, Off The Scale
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Flawed Human Behavior Could Threaten Success Of Stimulus EMR Incentive Program8/31/2009As someone involved in the digital document and content management business I have watched the approaching stimulus incentives for EMR (electronic medical records) with a great deal of interest. There’s no question that if implemented correctly the stimulus program can accelerate the adoption of more efficient (computer based) record management, resulting in improved health care and reduced costs. By Jeff Nelson