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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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Top 5 Takeaways From The Federal HIT Strategic Plan2/6/2015
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released, for public comment, their Federal Health IT Strategic plan covering 2015 to 2020. The strategic plan is divided into five major goals guided by a “collect, share, and use” methodology: Expand Adoption of Health IT (Collect); Advance Secure and Interoperable Health Information (Share); Strengthen Healthcare Delivery (Use); Advance the Health and Well-Being of Individuals and Communities (Use); Advance Research, Scientific Knowledge, and Innovation (Use). By Paul Sliva, Health IT Consultant, ICE Technologies, Inc.
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Predictive Analytics And AI Trends Impacting Healthcare IT In 202112/17/2020
Artificial intelligence and predictive analytics continue to make transformational changes throughout the business world. While healthcare IT is seeing some impacts from AI and machine learning, it lags behind other industry sectors in fully adopting this emerging technology. However, necessity is sometimes the mother of invention, as evidenced by the Coronavirus pandemic still ravaging the planet.
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Virtual Tumor Boards – Cancer Does Not Stop For COVID-194/29/2020
It is a very challenging new world for cancer patients and their care teams. While data on cancer patients with COVID-19 is limited, published reports from China, Italy, and “ground zero” hospitals in the United States show a 3.5x higher risk of needing ventilation, ICU admission, and dealing with mortality compared with patients without cancer. This is a serious problem, which falls on community oncologists and care teams—given that 80 percent of cancer patients are treated in the community.
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White Paper: Security Management: The Evolution Of Identity And Access Management11/11/2009Over the past decade, the role that IT plays in the corporate landscape has evolved at a pace that Darwin would find astounding. In an effort to survive, the fittest IT professionals have rapidly adapted a business-savvy persona, and, in most cases, business people are rapidly becoming more IT proficient. By Bilhar Mann
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What's The Rx For Improved CX? Personalized Video9/5/2018
It is a complicated time for the healthcare industry. The vast number of players competing for space leaves consumers in a tangled ecosystem of insurers, providers and pharmaceutical companies. What gets lost is the personal relationship between members and the medical community.
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Real-Time Healthcare Data: A Game Changer For Navigating The Care Path In The Bundled Payment Era6/5/2017
Population Health Management and Bundled Payment Models have created a high demand for innovation in healthcare information technology. Healthcare providers have historically operated in silos, but value-based care initiatives have highlighted benefits for looking at healthcare comprehensively and are financially structured to transform care accordingly.