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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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Why Leading Hospitals Are Practicing IT Automation2/23/2018
Hospitals and other healthcare organizations are reaping the benefits of IT Automation for a number of business, operational and data management processes. For instance, IT Automation can provide functionality that enables building workflows faster and more reliably, improving coordination of disparate technologies and tools used by various internal departments, third party providers and vendors, and provides a cohesive approach with increased efficiency.
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4 Ways To Boost ROI With Data-Driven Patient Engagement9/26/2019
The era of “build it and they will come” in healthcare is over. With the rising cost of medical services and influx of convenient care options, patients now treat their health decisions like any other serious investment. In the face of increasing competition and consumer expectations, hospitals and health systems need to restructure their strategy in order to engage patients and consumers effectively.
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4 Ideas That Can Have A Big Impact On Your Network's Referrals10/4/2019
Most healthcare organizations lose about 30 percent to 60 percent of patients on account of inefficient referrals. Value-based care is expected to become the leading payment model by the year 2020, and healthcare organizations cannot afford losing more than half of their revenue due to reduced referral leakages.
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NLP, AI, And Machine Learning: Complementary Technologies For Advancing Patient Care7/17/2017
For the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) — especially natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning — has been a hot topic in healthcare as vendors, researchers, and providers consider ways to leverage technology to transform medical research and clinical care. By Simon Beaulah, Senior Director of Healthcare, Linguamatics
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Unlocking Data For Successful Outcomes4/1/2019
The most valuable commodity in healthcare is right under every single provider’s nose, but what’s interesting is that most may not have access or even know how to properly leverage it. This commodity is patient data, and the good news is, 2019 will be a pivotal year to unlocking more of its potential to optimize healthcare and drive revenue.
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Improving Healthcare With Systems Of Engagement5/9/2018
Some physicians and patients think healthcare is more inefficient than ever. To combat this, Systems of Engagement are being deployed to augment EHRs, simplify data collection, and share data in easy-to-consume visualizations, getting information to the right clinician at the right time to improve patient care.