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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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HIT, AI, And Machine Learning: A Reality Check4/16/2019
In the healthcare IT space, there are two buzzwords du jour: artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These concepts—which are often used interchangeably, but have distinct meanings—have been linked to everything from drastically changing future patient experiences (undoubtedly true) to completely replacing physicians with robots (not likely).
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What Are The Top IT Security Challenges Facing Hospitals?10/11/2017
A recent survey of healthcare executives revealed employee awareness as their greatest cybersecurity concern. By Jim Keener, Chief Technology Officer at Ingenious Med
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Achieving A PACS Neutral Archive7/14/2010What is a PACS-Neutral Archive? Why should one consider a PACS-Neutral Archive? How does an organization achieve a PACS-Neutral Archive? This paper will answer these questions and discuss the challenges and nuances related to achieving this goal.
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A Health Collaboration Ecosystem Leads To Patient Homeostasis3/10/2017
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) continues to increase emphasis on care collaboration, ranging from Chronic Care Management (CCM) to the recent announcement from the U.S. Surgeon General’s landmark report on alcohol, drugs, and health. Derived from many aspects in healthcare, the authors’ examine the challenges of integrating physical and behavioral healthcare, addressing the Care Collaboration Model outlined by CMS and the Surgeon General.
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Keeping Patient Information Secure When Implementing IoT3/14/2016
Healthcare is quickly becoming one of the leaders of Internet of Things (IoT) technology due to the wide assortment of connected medical devices. According to research conducted by MarketResearch.com, the healthcare segment of the IoT will be a $117 billion industry by 2020.1 While IoT may seem like a great benefit to the world of healthcare it does not come without its own problems.
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Intelligent Wellness Automation Arrives In 20171/24/2017
Automation may summon dystopian visions of a labor force crowded out by machines that work 24/7, don’t take breaks, or demand a competitive benefits package. But, according to Accenture’s report Intelligent Automation Is Changing Healthcare, 2016, “Intelligent automation really means combining technology with people to get a job done — either in a more effective way or a more productive way.” By Sam Salbi, CEO, FitLyfe