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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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Medical Device Security And Risk Management: Healthcare Delivery Organizations (HDOs) At The Intersection Of The FDA And OCR2/25/2019
When it comes to managing cybersecurity risk associated with medical devices, HDOs find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Misaligned incentives and confusing guidance from multiple directions have made it difficult for HDOs to know what to do. In this confusing climate, the deck may seem stacked against HDOs that want to improve. Fortunately, they are not in the fight alone.
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A Better Solution To Healthcare's Sleep Imperative9/8/2020
Bringing together the best of technology and personalized medicine to improve clinical outcomes.
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Technology Will Help Senior Care Facilities Manage The Tide Of The Growing Elder Population10/26/2015
Despite the uptick in technology adoption by the healthcare industry overall, the implementation of health IT (HIT) in the senior care market is lagging behind in comparison to the rest of the healthcare market sectors. Long-term and skilled nursing facilities with EHR systems are seeing their benefits such as smoother transitions of care, staffing efficiencies and exchanging data between hospitals and physicians. So, despite the need for sophisticated health IT software to handle patient data generated by senior patients, why is the senior care industry slower to adopt these new capabilities? We can trace this to misconceptions about many things, most commonly concerns around cost and the belief that implementing an EHR will be disruptive to business. By Dave Wessinger, CTO, PointClickCare
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Case Study: Organization Streamlines Processes, Reduces Labor Costs And Increases Daily Cash Postings Using CareMedic's Payment Management9/16/2009CareMedic representatives introduced health system administration to its newest solution offering, Payment Management, an ASP-based, all payer solution for managing remittances. By CareMedic
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White Paper: Wireless Device Effectiveness In Treating Congestive Heart Failure3/25/2010There are approximately 5.3 million people suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF) in the United States. The lifetime risk of developing heart failure at the age of 40 is 20%, and approximately 380,000 people above the age of 65 will be diagnosed with CHF annually. By IDEAL LIFE, Inc.
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No Time To Waste: Why Automation Will Shape The Future Of IoMT Security7/27/2020
In cybersecurity, speed is the name of the game. And in the current climate of adaptation to fast-changing conditions, organizations of all kinds are learning hard lessons of what it will take to survive and succeed in IT’s tomorrow. This is especially true in healthcare where the ability to act fast is essential in dealing with health crises, which also includes adversarial threats to network and data security.