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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
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Vendor Neutral Archives And The Public Cloud – Today's Cure For The Healthcare Industry's Data “Super-Bug”8/13/2018
Continuous advances in technology, from diagnostic imaging to payer-provider tracking and analytics software, are a boon for healthcare organizations and the patients they serve. Yet, the exponential explosion in data management and storage requirements that follow can cause quite a headache for the IT department. Add to that, ever-changing and increasingly stringent compliance regulations and you can easily understand why data management and storage has become a “super-bug” in many healthcare organizations.
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When It Comes To Sharing Patient Information, Can You Do it Securely?12/18/2017
The healthcare IT systems used to collect, store and share confidential patient information are under constant attack. The Identity Theft Resource Center reports the healthcare industry experienced 179 breaches in just the first half of this year, accounting for nearly a quarter of all breaches in the U.S. The Dark Web is a thriving marketplace for packages of protected healthcare information (PHI) that thieves can use to steal identities or file fake medical claims. Reversing this trend and demonstrating compliance with the industry regulations and laws governing the protection of PHI requires healthcare organizations to have full visibility into where patient data and other sensitive information sits within their networks.
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Stromberg Enterprise Time And Attendance For Healthcare11/24/2009Research indicates that staff and labor expenses encompass more than 60% of a healthcare organization’s operating costs. To better manage an organization’s most important business asset ? its employees ? an accurate time and attendance system is critical. By Stromberg
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The Next Step To Value-Based Care: Activating Healthcare Data For Physicians3/26/2019
Healthcare has seen a number of life-saving breakthroughs: vaccines, anesthesia, bypass surgery, the balloon catheter, and even decoding the human genome sequence. These have all changed the face of healthcare, transforming how we do things around here. But there’s one breakthrough which we have known is coming for a long time now.
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Evolving The EHR: What Apple's App Store Can Teach Us12/18/2019
What if your mobile browser was the only app on your phone? Imagine how much longer it would take to complete all the tasks you use your phone for — whether sending an email, completing a bank transfer, scheduling a rideshare, ordering groceries or listening to music. Our apps streamline access to certain information, automatically log us in, remember our previous orders or destinations, and are, to put it simply, efficient.
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The Big Data Healthcare Is Ignoring10/6/2017
In the years since the mandated adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), healthcare providers and technology developers have sought out solutions to leverage the resultant newfound abundance of patient data to improve outcomes. By Kurt Waltenbaugh, founder and CEO, Carrot Health