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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
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Caritas Improves Healthcare And Cuts Costs With Mobile Computing12/9/2010
Caritas Home Care has found the formula for improving healthcare quality and cutting costs. By Intermec, Inc.
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New Year, New Data-Driven Healthcare Trends1/25/2016
The physician-editors of our electronic clinical reference resource know a thing or two about data. They scour more than 27,000 articles in peer-reviewed journals each year, examine and weigh the strength of evidence each study offers, and translate it into more than 8,000 quick-to-digest summaries physicians and other practitioners can use at the point of care. Following are five ways, based on the evidence, patient care will be affected by health IT, payer data mandates, and other tech trends disrupting clinical workflows in the coming year. By Betsy Jones, EBSCO Health
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Virtual Care Technology Comes Into Focus10/21/2020
It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the growth of virtual care services to mitigate in-person medical visits. According to a recent survey from Blackbook Research, 59% of consumers are more likely to use virtual care services now than before the Coronavirus outbreak. 36% would switch their primary physician to have access to virtual care options. What is not so obvious, however, is that virtual care is transforming both remote and in-person medical visit experiences for patients.
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Participation Powers Healthy Changes: Proven Group-Based Intervention1/24/2018
Health systems urgently need to manage chronic diseases as 86 percent of each U.S healthcare dollar goes to chronic disease related care. Astoundingly, chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. New York based Off The Scale Health has combined the best technology with the best of group-based intervention to address the epidemic in a new and novel way.
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Workflow Inefficiency For Swedish Medical Center4/16/2010Since 1910, Swedish Medical Center has been a hallmark for excellence in healthcare. With over 70 clinics and four hospital locations, Swedish is the largest, most comprehensive, nonprofit healthcare provider in the Greater Seattle area. Swedish is not just about facilities, research and new techniques, it’s about people coming together to provide the most compassionate care possible.
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Head To Head: EHR With Responsive Patient Portal Vs. An EHR-Integrated Custom Mobile App10/21/2016
When considering patient communication tools, patient portals are an obvious choice as they are proposed and incentivized by CMS. By Lola Koktysh, Healthcare Industry Analyst, ScienceSoft