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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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65 Percent Of Patient-Doctor Interactions Through Mobile Devices?6/7/2018
With millions of mobile applications available to users and mobile based solutions being used in nearly every single healthcare organization across the world, mobile technology is a great industry anticipated to remain developing over the next many years. Some of the reports suggest that the international mobile health industry is estimated to generate more than $28 billion in 2018.
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Leveraging Automated Payment Technology To Improve The Patient Financial Experience6/16/2017
As patients shoulder a larger portion of their healthcare costs due to increasing deductibles and rising co-payments, healthcare organizations are seeing a dramatic surge in the amount of revenue tied to patient payments. In fact, it is estimated around one-third of an organization’s earnings come from patient responsibility. By Jeff Wood, vice president of product management, Navicure
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How Digital Experience Platforms Are Changing The Way Patients Receive Services1/31/2018
The quality of care that medical patients receive is, of course, a crucial contributing factor to their health outcomes and wellness. While a medical professional’s knowledge and bedside manner have always been key variables, we’re at a point where the patient’s digital experience – connecting through online healthcare portals – cannot be an afterthought.
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Guest Column: Give PACS Stations A Space-Saving Makeover4/21/2011This article takes a closer look at using a new breed of review displays with built-in USB ports to manage multiple PACS workstations instead of KVM switch solutions. By Art Marshall, product manager, medical-grade displacys, NEC Display Solutions
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Executing A Successful Go-Live In A Short-Staffed Environment Requires Planning And Support9/11/2017
Only 29 percent of today’s hospitals have fully staffed IT departments even though EHR optimizations or new implementations remain the second-highest priority for these organizations for the next 12 months, according to the latest HIMSS leadership survey. By Dan O’Connor, vice president of client relations, Stoltenberg Consulting
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Why Top Healthcare Institutions Are Moving Toward Integrated Security Solutions7/12/2017
According to an Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology report, 87 percent of office-based physicians had adopted some form of EHR as of 2015. This is more than double the 42 percent that had done so when data was collected in 2008. By Susan Biddle, senior director of Healthcare, Fortinet