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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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Workplace Safety A Growing Challenge In The Healthcare Industry10/25/2017
Countless systems and processes exist to ensure patient safety — from data privacy to medication checks to infection prevention. Hospital admission means being hooked up to at least one monitoring device, and nurses regularly check vital signs. By Manolito Jones, Healthcare Solutions Team Leader, LockPath
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IT Safety First: Top Challenges Interoperability Poses To Data Security10/17/2017
As hospitals continue down the road to transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based care, it will become increasingly important for different health IT systems to communicate, exchange data and apply the information that has been exchanged. By Jim Keener, Chief Technology Officer at genious Med
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Why Healthcare Should Double-Down On AI-Powered BI For Reporting11/18/2019
Understanding data is critical to every business, but especially to those of us in healthcare.
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6 Tech Trends To Watch For At HIMSS162/18/2016
Healthcare professionals across the country are preparing to converge upon Las Vegas for the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, the biggest healthcare information technology gathering of the year. The conference agenda is chock full of more than 300 education sessions on topics of interest from population health to business intelligence to patient engagement to privacy and security, setting the stage to discuss major 2016 trends. By Vinil Menon, Chief Technology Officer, CitiusTech
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Overcoming Roadblocks To Rollouts — Best Practices For Implementing New Revenue Cycle Management Solutions10/20/2017
Health IT solutions are developing at an increasingly rapid pace. New applications and systems have helped streamline many administrative processes, particularly as they relate to revenue cycle management (RCM). By Eric Bertelson, Manager of Professional Services at Ingenious Med
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6 Technologies That Could Prevent Medical Emergencies Before They Happen2/24/2020
The best medicine is preventive. Catching health issues before they become emergencies has been demonstrated to be more cost-effective and provide better patient outcomes. Now, new medical devices made possible by advances in other fields, like IoT, AI, and modern material design, are changing the healthcare field by improving preventive medicine. Here are six new technologies that can prevent medical emergencies before they happen.