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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.
VIDEOS FROM HIMSS14
FEATURED CONTENT
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AI-Powered DataOps Platform Helps Healthcare Organizations Solve Modern Data Challenges9/19/2019
Virtually every major organization these days is a data company. Enterprises are increasingly leveraging data for better products, services, new insights and to manage their business better. This rings true for all industries, but it’s particularly significant in healthcare. According to IDC, healthcare will see data grow faster than any other vertical through 2025.
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Getting The Most Out Of Practice Technology5/22/2018
Even though lots of physician practices have electronic medical records (EMRs) and practice management (PM) systems, many don’t use the technology to its potential. As a result, they miss opportunities to elevate quality reporting and improve practice performance.
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Bending The Cost Curve: Are You Leaving Your Chips On The Table?9/7/2018
Don't walk away from a process improvement project until you have put financial value around the expected gain and tied that back to your organization's key financial metrics. When you score a winning hand, use these methods to ensure that all those chips make it into your pocket.
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Comparing Surgeon Site Of Service Data For Procedures To Reduce Overall Medical Costs7/11/2017
As healthcare organizations wring out wasteful spending, reducing cost variations of surgical procedures is one area being closely scrutinized. By Matt Waltrich, RemitDATA
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Shared Best Practice Data: The Key To Error Reduction7/20/2016
A recent Johns Hopkins University study citing medical errors as the third-leading cause of death in the United States has been met with significant controversy in the press. By Dr. Viet Nguyen, Chief Medical Officer at Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions
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Beyond Meaningful Use: The Value Of Patient Portals1/25/2017
While most caregivers adopt patient portals just because MU requires it, portals can bring value across clinical and financial dimensions. By John Barnett, Project Coordinator at Iflexion