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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?

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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Adaptive Biotechnologies And Flatiron Health Announce Integration Of clonoSEQ MRD Testing Into OncoEMR7/1/2025
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ADPT), a commercial stage biotechnology company that aims to translate the genetics of the adaptive immune system into clinical products to diagnose and treat disease, and Flatiron Health, a leading healthtech company dedicated to expanding the possibilities of point-of-care solutions in oncology, today announced the integration of Adaptive’s clonoSEQ® test for measurable residual disease (MRD) assessment in lymphoid malignancies into OncoEMR®, Flatiron’s cloud-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform.
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Bridge Joins The Elation Health Partner Hub To Elevate Patient Engagement For Elation EHR Users6/19/2025
Bridge, a leader in white-labeled patient engagement technology, today announced a new partnership with Elation Health, the clinical–first Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform trusted by more than 30,000 primary-care providers.
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Introducing HealthVerity Notes: Verified Clinical Narratives Now Available For Real-World Research And Commercial Use6/18/2025
HealthVerity, the leader in privacy-protecting technologies and the nation's largest verified healthcare and consumer data ecosystem, today announced the launch of HealthVerity Notes, a modular, de-identified dataset built from over 2.5 billion unstructured clinical EHR notes that employs novel methodologies to preserve the full note.
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CliniComp Expands EHR System To Post Anesthesia Care At VA San Antonio, Enhancing Coordinated Care Delivery6/17/2025
CliniComp, the pioneer in high-performing, reliable electronic health record (EHR) solutions, today announced the expansion of its system to include Post Anesthesia Care environments at VA San Antonio.
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Oracle Health Community Care Improves Care In Mobile, Home, And Rural Settings6/17/2025
Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Health Community Care, a cloud-based mobile extension of the Oracle Health Foundation electronic health record (EHR).
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ML For Healthcare As A Requisite To Responsible Patient Care3/12/2019
Big data has long since arrived in the healthcare provider industry. We live in a world where remote patient monitoring devices can generate hundreds of blood pressure readings per day, where every supply is tracked down to a strip of gauze, and millions of radiology images may reside within a single EHR server. But along with these piles of data come clinicians and analysts charged with sifting through them, and the herculean task of providing actionable insight.
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5 Reasons E-Signature Is Invaluable8/21/2017
Electronic signature is a fast-growing technology in all industries. By Ellen Sluder, VP, Marketing, Medforce Technologies Inc.
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The Healthcare Digital Backbone5/12/2015
The healthcare industry is undergoing significant transformation with wellness and personal devices exponentially increasing the reach of what was termed as healthcare access in traditional terms. On the other hand, cost and regulatory compliance pressures are pushing for improved efficiency. While it is a paradigm shift from a consumer perspective, it does impose significant changes on the IT side as well. The B2C shift as well as evolving reimbursement models will result in innumerable changes in interactions. It is no more a provider administered IT interaction, but device and app based self-service. By Ashok Balasubramanian, Head, Services Transformation Group, Syntel
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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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Head To Head: EHR With Responsive Patient Portal Vs. An EHR-Integrated Custom Mobile App10/21/2016
When considering patient communication tools, patient portals are an obvious choice as they are proposed and incentivized by CMS. By Lola Koktysh, Healthcare Industry Analyst, ScienceSoft
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DICOM Viewers: A Gate To Online Collaboration8/1/2016
DICOM has been used in healthcare institutions from pole to pole for more than twenty years. Now it resides upon the medical imaging throne since this standard is supported by virtually all medical imaging devices.