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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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Seeding The Cloud: Who Really Needs Infrastructure-as-a-Service?9/12/2017
If you’re a small or midsize medical office – a clinic, a hospital, a medical practice – you should of course be mindful of IT. But you need to keep your mind on your patients. By Adam Stern, founder and CEO, Infinitely Virtual
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Retiring Legacy Applications: It's Not All About Cost5/10/2017
From conversations with our customers, we know healthcare organizations, globally, are running up to 300 legacy applications behind the scenes despite their strategy for the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to be the primary method of accessing clinical content. Although there are significant costs associated with maintaining these legacy applications, this practice — somewhat worryingly — seems to be commonplace.
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Software And Hardware End-Of-Life Risks For Healthcare3/25/2019
We often find that it is the critical systems that run the unsupported software or hardware. While most IT teams know the importance of unsupported systems and life cycle management, competing priorities and the approach of “if it’s not broken” is often taken with legacy systems.
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The 3 Types Of Insider Threats And How To Stop Them12/21/2016
Healthcare cybersecurity threats are rising at an alarming rate. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there were 253 reported instances of healthcare breaches in 2015 resulting in the theft of over 112 million records. According to a Ponemon Institute study, 90 percent of organizations reported suffering from at least one data breach in the last two years, with 45 percent reporting five or more breaches.
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Mobile Technology Is Revamping The Healthcare Domain!5/2/2018
Business approaches and strategies have evolved enormously over the years. The avant-garde business schemes are a result of the rapid incorporation of several technological tools that have fastened up and automated tasks to make the business processes much more efficient, smoother and simpler and yes, highly productive.
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Leveraging Smart Availability To Enhance Data Analytics And Decision-Making Precision6/20/2018
Today, it is widely accepted that decision-making precision can best be accomplished with accurate and timely data analytics. Seemingly every day, new technologies and methodologies are introduced promising data analytics nirvana, for any number of use cases.