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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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A New Era For IT In Healthcare - Are You Prepared To Achieve The Quadruple Aim?5/1/2018
Information technology professionals have never played a more important role in healthcare or been more responsible for its ultimate success or failure. If information is the new lifeblood of healthcare, data are the platelets that comprise it and IT infrastructure is the circulatory system it moves through. In my 30 years in the industry, I’ve seen technology’s role grow in importance and today I would argue that it is ground zero for each objective of the “Quadruple Aim.”
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New Population Health Decision System For ACOs Uncovers The Hidden Risks3/10/2016
One of the biggest challenges for Accountable Care Organizations is effective deployment of patient care resources. To succeed requires an in-depth understanding of patient risk, which is often difficult to assess. The reason for this is that most risk analysis systems rely on claims data, which can only tell who, in the past, has been a high-use patient. What that data can’t do is tell you who is on the verge of developing a serious condition.
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A New Frontier In Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM): Gesture Detection7/12/2018
The healthcare market has been flooded with new RPM solutions. There are wired connections and wireless sensors tracking patients’ physical states, monitoring and alerting on patient deterioration, notifying caregivers if discharged or disabled patients or even elderly patients’ wellness indicators have changed for the worse — the need for remote monitoring is real. But we have only scratched the surface.
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Massachusetts General Hospital Uses Smart Bar Code Printers To Ensure Patient Safety12/9/2010According to the FDA, hospitals could eliminate 50 percent of their medication administration errors by scanning bar codes at the point of care to positively identify patients, the medication they are about to receive, and match the information to a physician order. By Intermec, Inc.
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Technology And Healthcare – Boon Of EMR2/22/2018
In the ever-changing world of healthcare where new and advanced ways are being brought in to make the entire process of health checkups and post care measures efficient and hassle free, Electronic Medical Records or EMR is proving to be a boon for both the medical practitioners and the patients. It has brought two of the vital aspects of healthcare to the forefront – time saving and updated medical information. To understand fully, how EMR acts as a boon for both technology and healthcare, one has to understand about patient engagement and the role of EMR. Today we are going to discuss the same.
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FDA Approves AI-Based Heart Failure Screening Method1/23/2020
Heart failure is a growing problem in the United States. In 2017, heart failure was responsible for one out of every eight deaths in the country, with the condition costing the nation upwards of $30 billion, according to the Centers for Disease Control.