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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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5 Strategies For Using Analytics In Population Health6/6/2016
I recently had the opportunity to speak at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) about the role data plays in emerging population health strategies. Patient data has the ability to truly impact the way healthcare functions — for both patient outcomes and provider bottom lines — but the industry is often at an impasse on how to actually use data to derive meaningful insights that lead to improved care and healthier populations. By George Dealy, Vice President of Healthcare Applications at Dimensional Insight
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Archiving Vs. Backup — The Great Debate6/1/2017
The confusion — perhaps better described as the debate — over backup versus archiving continues to rage on. As healthcare organizations are trying to do more with flat or falling budgets — while at the same time facing competitive, government, and/or legal pressures to store more data for longer — the healthy choice is to understand the difference.
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3 Ways To Empower Health Equity With AI7/9/2019
The World Health Organization’s priorities this year include health as a human right, universal health coverage, appropriate access to care, and high-quality care. These themes increasingly echo as part of international public discourse, especially in the United States where we continue to explore the most efficient and effective ways to take care of our communities.
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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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Are You Taking The Time To Look Into Your Patients' Eyes?2/5/2016
It’s more important than ever before as the use of computers could take the human element out of care encounters. By Ben Nwoke, MD, MBA, COO, DEMA/DMCG
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What Is Blockchain And How Can It Be Used In Healthcare?4/26/2018
Blockchain technology started as the basis for Bitcoin that allowed the cryptocurrency to operate but now it has spread to various other industries as well like healthcare. Blockchain systems are actually decentralised distributed ledger systems created by app Development Company that record transactions on blocks that are linked together and store them on an encrypted digital ledger. Since the entire blockchain system is decentralised it has no one central administrator which imparts the system extreme security because records are spread across a network of replicated databases that are always in sync. All entries in a blockchain system are time and date stamped that can only be accessed and updated by authorised users.