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![Ken Congdon, Editor In Chief of Health IT Outcomes]( "Is Technology To Blame For Physician Burnout?")
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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![Robotic Systems For Food Safety]( "Will Robots Redesign Healthcare Policy?")
Will Robots Redesign Healthcare Policy?How robotics has the power to transform healthcare. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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![Field Service Report]( "Cybersecurity Report Shows 320% Increase In Hacking Attacks In 2016")
Cybersecurity Report Shows 320% Increase In Hacking Attacks In 2016Ransomware is now a prominent threat to hospitals. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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![Encryption For Backup]( "25% Of Healthcare Organizations Don't Encrypt Patient Data In The Cloud")
25% Of Healthcare Organizations Don't Encrypt Patient Data In The CloudCloud 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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FEATURED CONTENT
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6 Unexpected Side Effects Of The Growing Telehealth Market1/31/2019
Before the telehealth market took off, people could only speculate about the positive and negative effects it might have on healthcare at large. Now that it's more established, it's possible to dive into some of the positive and negative side effects telehealth caused. Here are six of them.
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Telehealth & HIPAA: What Physicians Need to Know To Be Compliant5/11/2015
As with conventional medicine, a telehealth and video physician or caregiver must uphold the same duties to safeguard a patient’s medical record and keep their treatments confidential. In addition, storage of electronic documents, pictures, and audio/video recordings must uphold the same precaution and care credited to paper documents. By Allan Ridings, senior risk management & patient safety specialist, Cooperative of American Physicians
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How AI Can Help Seniors Navigate Care9/11/2019
Whether it’s shopping from a mobile app or having a video visit with a nurse to diagnose a minor illness, technology has certainly enhanced daily interactions, especially in the healthcare industry. In this digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) is also taking healthcare by storm.
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Improving The Dissemination Of Healthcare Updates To Doctors6/7/2018
Billions of dollars are invested each year in healthcare research. The American National Institutes of Health (NIH) alone invests over $37 billion dollars each year in funding various programs to improve healthcare in the country.
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Technology Partner Should Offer Rapid, Simple And Powerful Data Analytic Tools To Inspire Budgeting Confidence1/19/2017
Healthcare IT platforms available to monitor and analyze purchased services spending data are limited. This is surprising considering up to 45 percent of a hospital’s or health system’s non-labor budget is spent on purchased services, meaning millions of dollars are being spent without the level of scrutiny it deserves. By Chris Heckler, CEO, Valify
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Healthcare M&A Activity Elevates The Importance Of Provider Data Management7/30/2018
While hospitals and health systems have gotten better at post-M&A integration throughout the years, one area continues to be overlooked — provider data management (PDM). When provider contracting and data management are not factored into M&A integration plans, hospitals and health systems put themselves in a costly financial position.