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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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Nexcess Introduces Dedicated Healthcare Hosting For Organizations Managing Sensitive Patient Data4/22/2026
Nexcess, a specialty cloud hosting provider built for regulated and sensitive workloads, announced the availability of its dedicated healthcare hosting solution.
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Graphium Health Launches Capture AI To Transform Data Capture And Eliminate Costly Integrations4/21/2026
Graphium Health announced the launch of Capture AI, a powerful new feature designed to revolutionize how healthcare organizations capture and process patient data.
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Reveleer Introduces Clinical Data Repository To Establish A Unified, AI-Enriched Member-Level Clinical Record Across Health Plan Enterprise Operations4/7/2026
Reveleer, a leading provider of AI-enabled solutions empowering data-driven health plan performance, today announced the launch of Clinical Data Repository, a centralized, AI-enabled clinical data management solution designed to help health plans reliably store and reuse medical records across risk adjustment, quality reporting, audit response, and care management programs.
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Greenway Health® Collaborating With KNB Communications To Amplify News Of Its AI-By-Design Electronic Health Record (EHR)4/7/2026
Greenway Health, a leader in agentic AI and ambulatory care innovation, has officially debuted Novare, a fully integrated clinical and revenue cycle platform built specifically for ambulatory care.
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GRAIL Announces Integration Of The Galleri® Test Into Epic Electronic Health Record Platform To Expand Access Nationwide4/7/2026
GRAIL, Inc. (Nasdaq: GRAL), a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early when it can be cured, today announced a collaboration with Epic to bring the Galleri® multi-cancer early detection test into one of the nation's most widely used electronic health record (EHR) platforms, supporting broader adoption across health systems in the United States.
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How Telehealth Is Driving Engagement And Shaping The ACO Model Of The Future10/23/2015
The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly transitioning beyond the traditional focus of treating individual patients’ physical conditions. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and similar arrangements are leading the way, structured specifically to reward progress toward achieving the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience, improving the health of populations and reducing the cost of care. Fully addressing these dynamics By Derek Richards, PhD, director of clinical research and innovation, SilverCloud Health
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Want Real Healthcare Reform? Start Listening To Patients' Social Posts8/21/2018
Enlightened hospital systems have already started to listen to patients who are sharing their experiences on the web: on Twitter, in public posts to hospitals’ Facebook pages, and in public reviews on Google and a host of healthcare review sites.
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4 Indicators Of Hospital Inefficiencies Derived From Your IT Service Desk Analytics Metrics1/3/2020
The seventh annual health IT outlook survey found 48 percent of participants felt unprepared to manage and execute effective IT operations within their healthcare facility based on their current training. Yet, the core reason for an IT service desk’s existence in a hospital is to quickly and accurately resolve issues reported by end users, ranging from physicians to front-end administrative staff. Health systems can leverage their initial user issue data for proactive mitigation as well as a way to stay competitive amidst continuous marketplace consolidation.
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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
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Preparation — Not Payment: How To Protect Your Healthcare Organization From A Ransomware Attack5/14/2018
Just this past month (in March), Geneva, N.Y.-based Finger Lakes Health lost computer access and most of its phone lines after a hacker hijacked its systems and demanded payment to unlock them. After going into what it called “downtime paper” mode for about a week, Finger Lakes paid the ransom, for an undisclosed amount. “We’ve become very accustomed to relying on digital-everything — and this type of breach sets us back 30, 40 or 50 years,” an employee remarked, in describing the incident’s immediate impact.
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CDI Should Be A Top Priority3/22/2016
I had the interesting experience not too long ago of speaking with someone in the financial world who apparently thought himself an expert in healthcare information technology. We were discussing the relative merits of clinical documentation improvement (CDI). I confess that my mind had started to wander as I was trying to recall who said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”