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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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How Information Technology Leaders Will Pave The Road To Precision Medicine4/30/2019
Precision medicine might be one of the most promising advances in the medical arena today. The hope is that by taking patients’ genetic makeup, environment, and lifestyle into account, their doctors can tailor highly precise, effective treatments.
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Security And Video Quality Essential For Building Trust During Telehealth Encounters3/18/2016
Establishing intimacy and building trust between provider and patient is important for effective healthcare delivery, but it can also be a challenge. Telehealth encounters, due to the physical distance and sensory limitations of electronic communication, can make that connection even more difficult.
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How Mobile App Development Helps Precision Medicine4/4/2018
Mobile app development aims to help precision medicine in further evolution into the clinical realm.
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How To Overcome The Top 4 Security Challenges Plaguing Healthcare12/20/2016
Healthcare networks are becoming significantly more complex, which presents a growing challenge to the IT staff supporting them. The successful implementation of wired and wireless networking technology in these kinds of environments is dependent on an architecture that can handle the unique capacity, coverage, security, and segmentation requirements of healthcare facilities while also adhering to compliance standards. By Bob Zemke, Director of Healthcare Solutions at Extreme Networks
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6 Business Drivers Changing Claims Processing12/4/2015
The healthcare industry continually faces new mandates and requirements that dramatically affect business processes and the bottom line. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), HITECH, Meaningful Use, HIPAA, ICD-10, HIT, as well as other mandates challenge both health and property and casualty (P&C) insurers to improve operational performance. They are, however, not the only drivers. Following are six additional drivers that are increasing the costs of claims processing. By Jeff Meyers, Product Marketing Director, Kofax from Lexmark
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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.