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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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Mobile Clinical Assistant Reduces Errors 18%8/6/2009Each year, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) cares for more than 33,000 in-patients and instructs nearly 3,000 health sciences undergraduate and graduate students. By Integrated Solutions magazine
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Predictive Analytics Improve Perioperative Performance And Financial Gains7/20/2017
Hospitals and health systems today face significant margin pressures. By Jason Harber, vice president of product management, Hospital IQ
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The Right Population Health Analytics To Transform The Patient Experience6/14/2018
Consider a situation where healthcare is not just an industry term- a situation where EHRs are not an integral part of physicians schedule but just a support to providing care. All considered, imagine a situation where patient-centric care actually involves the patient, and patient engagement is not just a buzzword but a reality. Unfortunately, all these imaginations were supposed to be a reality, but still, healthcare managers and organizations are struggling with the problems such as the lack of patients’ adherence to medication, varying trends in the population health, and a lot more. Patient populations, nowadays, expect the same on-demand delivery convenience from the healthcare organizations as they get from the other companies like Netflix.
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Case Study: Health System Adds $16M In Profit With CRM Technology11/14/2010Health System Adds $16M In Profit With CRM Technology This case study highlights how Trinity Health leveraged healthcare-specific CRM software to initiate and execute patient-geared marketing campaigns that generated $16.4M in net profit for the system. By Reach3
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Guest Column: Calling Doctor Avatar10/15/2009Do I think that information technology in medicine is a good thing? Hmmm – not always. In general I’m a big fan. In fact, a big part of my livelihood involves helping practices and clinics manage medical information like patient and billing records more efficiently. Any technology that improves diagnosis and treatment and can let doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals spend more time working with patients is a good thing. By Jeff Nelson, BOLT Document Management
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Applying Machine Learning To Live Data8/4/2017
According to the OECD, U.S. healthcare devotes far more of its economy to health than any other country, yet the life expectancy of the American population is shorter than in other countries that spend less. The biggest areas of spending and concern are for coordination of care and preventing hospital admissions for people with chronic conditions such as heart disease. The combination of connected medical devices, streaming analytics, big data, and machine learning has become more powerful and less expensive than before, which could enable scalable chronic disease management with better care at lower costs.