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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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Will Robots Redesign Healthcare Policy?
How robotics has the power to transform healthcare. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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Cybersecurity Report Shows 320% Increase In Hacking Attacks In 2016
Ransomware is now a prominent threat to hospitals. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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25% Of Healthcare Organizations Don't Encrypt Patient Data In The Cloud
Cloud encryption alone is not enough; it must be paired with tougher regulation. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
HIMSS14 NEWS
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Valant Expands AI-Powered Clinical Note Solution To Fit How Behavioral Health Clinicians Already Work2/25/2026
Valant, the leading provider of behavioral health EHR software, today announced expanded capabilities for its AI-powered clinical documentation tool, AI Notes Assist, enabling clinicians to generate structured clinical notes in the templates they already use across diverse workflows.
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Launches AI-Powered Identity Management Platform For Healthcare2/19/2026
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today announced the launch of an identity management platform with industry leading identity verification, resolution and enrichment solutions that enable healthcare organizations to manage patient and member identities across the entire healthcare journey.
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Kontakt.io Unveils Next-Generation AI Solutions To Re-ViVE Care Operations And Transform Healthcare Delivery2/19/2026
At ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Kontakt.io will demo an integrated suite of AI solutions that redefines operational efficiency across outpatient clinics, hospitals, and IDNs.
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Ubie Announces Collaboration To Reinvent The Healthcare Digital Front Door2/12/2026
Ubie, an AI-driven and clinically vetted healthcare prediction platform designed to guide patients to the care they need, today announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to co-develop a new interface with the goal of reinventing how patients navigate, access and engage with health systems and payers.
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Whatfix Doubles Down On Healthcare With AI-Powered Suite To Erase The EHR Burden And Enable Clinicians To Focus On Patient Care2/10/2026
Whatfix, the global leader in digital adoption platforms (DAP), today announced the official launch of its Healthcare Industry Vertical, dedicated to transforming the clinician experience by leveraging AI to simplify complex Electronic Health Record (EHR) and clinical software systems.
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Digital Transformation In e-Prescribing9/29/2017
Contemplating digital transformation in the healthcare industry typically conjures up innovations in medical imaging, diagnostic testing, gene therapies, and bio-pharmaceutical developments. By Eileen Haggerty, Senior Director Enterprise Business Operations, NETSCOUT
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Patient Privacy: 6 Steps To Ensure HIPAA Compliance9/17/2019
Technology is at the forefront of much of the innovation within the healthcare industry. New advancements are improving everything from patient care procedures to information availability, but many companies are struggling to manage the ancillary side effects of this rapid digitalization.
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A Simple Text Message To Save Over 13 Million Lives7/26/2019
Consumerism in healthcare was never a widely discussed topic until very recently, however, things are changing and how! Innovating while respecting the mandates in place should be the road ahead, definitely.
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Infection Control In The Era Of Smartphones And COVID-198/20/2020
The broad availability and use of smartphones has not only revolutionized society, but also the way we conduct business. The healthcare industry is no different and has capitalized on the use of smartphones and mobile apps for healthcare workers. The World Health Organization found that mobile devices are used by approximately 90 percent of healthcare workers during the workday. Suppliers of many of the solutions for managing, caring, and interacting with patients also have responded by extending their software beyond the desktop, appearing as apps for deployment on smartphones.
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Comparing Surgeon Site Of Service Data For Procedures To Reduce Overall Medical Costs7/11/2017
As healthcare organizations wring out wasteful spending, reducing cost variations of surgical procedures is one area being closely scrutinized. By Matt Waltrich, RemitDATA
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Why Healthcare Needs Private Optical Networks5/14/2019
For at least the past 10 years, healthcare providers have invested in tools that utilize computing and information technology to better control patient outcomes. Several large hospital systems in the U.S. have reported meaningful improvements in metrics such as length of inpatient hospital stays, need for post-operative antibiotics and 30-day re-admissions. These positive outcomes are credited to the increased use of predictive analytics that model patient scenarios as part of a real-time connected healthcare system (RTHS). A cornerstone of the RTHS is connectivity among patients, healthcare providers as well as devices and systems that generate, process and store real-time data.