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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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Where Should Healthcare Data Be Stored In 2018 — And Beyond?2/20/2018
New technologies offer leaps in healthcare capabilities, but the resulting explosion of data leads to new maladies to cure.
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Reduce Lost Appointments By Aligning Digital Technology With Patient Behavior2/3/2016
Historically, practices have had no-show rates ranging from 5 to 50 percent. The reality is, missed appointments happen and, when they do, cost the practice both time and money. There are numerous reasons why patients miss appointments, but many of them could have been prevented. By Tom Cox, CEO, MyHealthDirect
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White Paper: Financial Services Current State In Healthcare11/23/2009Financial service organizations are increasingly providing products and services to the healthcare community. While the medical lockbox may have been the first healthcare-specific product that banks1 offered to larger hospital systems, products have expanded to include a number of different services for payers, providers and consumers. By Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI)
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Proactive Security Measures Essential To Preventing Data Breaches5/3/2016
When our organization, Oakland Regional Hospital, a 45-bed general acute care hospital in the Detroit metropolitan area, migrated to a new EHR system, we also had an opportunity to improve our data security policies and procedures. With our former EHR, our data security protocol was reactive based on reported incidents, which we realized was not sustainable from a risk management perspective.
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Why Healthcare Facilities Should Consider Managed IT Services10/13/2020
Every day, organizations across the world continue to achieve technological advancements and breakthroughs. Although these developments are not specific to any one industry, we tend to see this occur most often in healthcare.
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The AI Advantage: How To Improve Palliative Care In A Value-Based World8/6/2019
Battling with chronic life-limiting illness results in extreme pain, discomfort, and physical as well as mental stress. Even when there is no permanent cure available to treat the disease, palliative care can bring some respite to the patients. It can make a significant difference in enhancing end-of-life care quality by alleviating pain and managing uncomfortable symptoms.