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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.
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2 Metrics For Monitoring Hospital IT ROI8/10/2015
If your community hospital recently invested a lot of time or money on IT (or is planning to in the near future), you must know how to effectively determine if your investment is paying off and delivering value to patients, clinicians, and your organization. An excellent way to determine clinician value is to measure your hospital technology’s availability, responsiveness, and user adoption. Here’s a quick crash course on how to ensure your shiny new IT system is well-oiled and your drivers aren’t stuck in neutral. By Phil Stravers, ICE Technologies
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Wireless's Big Role In The Hospital Of The Future8/29/2018
Hospitals can be very intimidating places. The barrage of people, equipment, sounds and even smells can compound the stress associated with any visit – from a traumatic injury to a blessed event like a child birth.
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It's Time To Rip Off The ETL Band-Aid3/3/2016
It’s time to remove the ETL (extract-transform-load) band-aid, STAT. ETL served an admirable purpose for the last two decades, but today’s volume and complexity of data are overwhelming ETL tools. These technologies that were supposed to solve data problems have now become a hindrance — and it’s time to let them go.
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6 Challenges Tech Has Brought To Healthcare (And How To Avoid Them)12/19/2019
Technology has changed the way industry professionals approach the idea of healthcare. While many of these innovations are positive — facilitating patient care and ensuring traditional treatments are more effective — they also present some unique challenges. Why? Because this technology is something the industry has never seen before.
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Lost Devices And Healthcare Data Leakage, Two Sides Of The Same Coin?8/23/2016
Healthcare professionals are more reliant on mobile devices than ever, with laptops, tablets, and smartphones quickly obviating the need for paper records. While a boon to productivity, mobile devices have also increased the risk of data leakage. Cloud-based EHR systems and adoption of productivity apps like Office 365 have made large volumes of patient data and claims information readily accessible from loss and theft prone mobile devices.
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Following A Devastating Fire, SmartSearch Helped A Medical Billing Company Rise Up From The Ashes And Opened The Door To A More Efficient And Profitable Future1/12/2010Documents are truly the lifeblood of many information-intensive businesses. For these companies, managing documents electronically can be a lifesaving business practice, as a prominent Maine medical billing company discovered—quite by accident. By Square 9 Softworks