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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.
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What Is HIPAA's Role In Disaster Recovery?9/14/2018
Business continuity is critical to every organization and every industry - but if you work in healthcare, it’s even more important. In large part, that’s due to HIPAA. That’s not the only reason, though.
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Transforming Care In The Digital Age4/21/2017
Can modern virtual care close the gap between patient-reported symptoms and what’s recorded in the EHR?
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May The Good Cause Be With You!3/2/2016
CMS continuously strives to improve the healthcare services standard across organizations offering Medicare/Medicaid coverage plans. As part of the same endeavor, the organization came up with a list of changes for the Medicare Advantage (MA) program (Part C) and Prescription Drug benefit program (Part D) of Medicare for contract year 2016. One of the key changes, part of the CMS mandate (CMS-4159-F2), pertains to Good Cause Reinstatement (GCR) decisions. By Jaydev Rajnikant Doshi, Business Manager, Virtusa
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Your IoT Device Against The World9/22/2020
With the rapid increase of the Internet of Things (IoT), the world around us now has billions of devices connected to the internet. IoT consists of devices for the healthcare industry, consumer marketplace, industrial sensors for manufacturing, and automotive electronics. While all of these devices have gone through performance testing before their introduction, the likelihood of interference in crowded wireless environments means there’s no guarantee they will operate as intended.
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The Smart Way For Healthcare Organizations To Go Mobile6/10/2014
On January 1, 2014, a key prOvisiOn Of the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 went into effect, requiring healthcare providers across the country to adopt and demonstrate “meaningful use” of electronic medical records (eMr) in order to maintain their existing Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement levels.
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6 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Saying “I Do” To A Patient Portal9/14/2015
So your organization is ready to take patient engagement to the next level and invest in a patient portal? Or maybe you already have a portal and are looking to upgrade to meet current and future Meaningful Use requirements. It’s a good idea.