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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.
VIDEOS FROM HIMSS14
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White Paper: Improving Patient Safety With An Integrated Forms Automation & Barcoding Solution8/28/2009In the increasingly diverse and complex world of healthcare information technology, hospitals are expected to check off items on an ever-growing list of practical and conceptual needs. ‘Hot button’ issues include compliance with federal legislation such as HIPAA, Medicare and Medicaid, meeting requirements of regulatory organizations and creation of comprehensive electronic medical records (EMR) and legal health records (LHR). By Access eforms
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Finding The Balance Between Patient Outreach And Patient Care With Technology3/2/2020
Patient engagement is crucial to all healthcare organizations. It might seem at first glance that the larger an organization is, the more hands there would be to connect with patients. Unfortunately, the opposite is often true. The resources of health systems and hospitals are stretched to the limit with the basics, leaving little time for the “extras.”
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How New Tools In Data And AI Are Being Used In Healthcare And Medicine9/2/2019
AI will have a huge impact on healthcare. It is currently moving out of the laboratory and into real-world applications for healthcare and medicine. Many startups are using modern data and AI technologies to tackle problems related to workflow optimization and automation, demand forecasting, treatment and care, diagnostics, drug discovery, personalized medicine, and many other areas. Some of these companies are beginning to speak publicly about their AI initiatives; our upcoming Artificial Intelligence conferences in San Jose and London have a strong roster of speakers who will describe applications of AI in Health and Medicine.
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6 Tech Trends To Watch For At HIMSS162/18/2016
Healthcare professionals across the country are preparing to converge upon Las Vegas for the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, the biggest healthcare information technology gathering of the year. The conference agenda is chock full of more than 300 education sessions on topics of interest from population health to business intelligence to patient engagement to privacy and security, setting the stage to discuss major 2016 trends. By Vinil Menon, Chief Technology Officer, CitiusTech
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Fixing The Need For A Fix: Bridging The IT Gap Between Physical And Behavioral Healthcare12/14/2018
Treating addiction is not a simple process and the current treatment of 90-day detox programs works well if you have thousands of beds, staff and other resources. The actual behavioral health treatment of addition is not much better. It is still a time-consuming process requiring individual diagnosis, but largely driven by paper and trial and error guesswork.
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IT Upgrades And Changes Won't Succeed Without Operations Staff At The Table11/16/2017
Does your services integrator, PMO, delivery and implementation team implement technology, or operationalize your technology? There’s an important distinction, one that can make all the difference in the success of your IT projects.