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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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EU's General Data Protection Regulation Set To Disrupt The Medical Industry8/29/2017
When the European Union introduced its plan for regulating online Cloud services, to say it caused a major disruption would most likely be an understatement. By Philip Piletic
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Software And Hardware End-Of-Life Risks For Healthcare3/25/2019
We often find that it is the critical systems that run the unsupported software or hardware. While most IT teams know the importance of unsupported systems and life cycle management, competing priorities and the approach of “if it’s not broken” is often taken with legacy systems.
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Tech, Personalized Care, And Population Health Brighten The Future For Diabetes Patients1/22/2020
Nearly 30 million Americans are diabetic, and up to 90 percent of them have Type 2 diabetes. According to the NIH, the cost of treating and managing the disease reached $408 billion in 2015 and could expand to $622 billion by 2030. Although this trend is concerning, there’s hope: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported a 35 percent drop in newly diagnosed diabetes cases since 2009 and a long-running plateau in the number of existing cases. Any decline is encouraging, but the public health initiatives helping to stem the tide ultimately won’t be enough to make a lasting impact on the lives of diabetic patients.
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From Health Record Maintenance To Drug Research: How Mobile Tech Is Transforming Healthcare5/3/2017
From the arrival of the Blackberry in 2002 to the explosion in smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices we see today, the last decade and a half has seen mobile communication and computing tech come a long way. One industry which has been profoundly affected is healthcare. By Brent Whitfield, CEO, DCG Technical Solutions Inc.
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Guest Column: Reduce Your Storage Spend In An Era Of Explosive Health Data Growth6/17/2011This article illustrates how integrating online archiving and data protection can help your facility effectively retain and manage health data, while cutting costs. By Ian Duncan, VP of Marketing and Strategy, ProStor Systems
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5 Ways To Simplify And Secure The Healthcare Endpoint In Urgent Times5/11/2020
Workers in the healthcare industry have a lot on their minds. The sourcing of critical equipment and supplies. The urgent care for a rising number of patients. Not to mention their own safety.