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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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FEATURED CONTENT
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EU's General Data Protection Regulation Set To Disrupt The Medical Industry8/29/2017
When the European Union introduced its plan for regulating online Cloud services, to say it caused a major disruption would most likely be an understatement. By Philip Piletic
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Expedite The Migration To Value-Based Care With Simple And Secure File-Sharing7/17/2018
Value-based care goes beyond reducing or eliminating unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures. Healthcare IT professionals contribute to value-based care initiatives when they strike a balance between efficient and secure file sharing of patient records. Simple file sharing means patient records are easily accessed and transferred between specialists and facilities whereas secure file sharing indicates patient records are transferred in a manner that protects patient privacy and demonstrates compliance with HIPAA and HITECH.
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Partnership Between The Practice And Its Patients Is Crucial: The Benefits Of Data Collection For Your Practice6/8/2020
When you open your browser and search for your practice’s online reviews, what do you see? Hopefully many five-star reviews.
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How To Develop A Cyber Security Practice11/19/2018
The potential business revenue from rising compliance requirements and security threats is hard to ignore. The increasing press coverage of ransomware attacks and fines for non-compliance is driving awareness and urgency. Even the slow adopter business owners and managers know something needs to be done to limit their corporate risks and individual exposure, and time isn’t on their side. What tools are necessary, how to integrate it into the IT services offering, how to market it? What are the best ways to go about developing sound cyber-security policies and practices in 2018 that could be used for commercial gain as well as internal commercial security? Here are some recommendations.
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The e-Prescribing Evolution: Today's Benefits And Tomorrow's Possibilities1/3/2017
Less than a decade ago, only 7 percent of physicians prescribed medications through EHRs. Thanks to regulatory nudges and incentive programs such as 2009’s Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, along with advances in health IT solutions stemming from those movements, like Meaningful Use, that rate jumped to 70 percent in 2014
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AHIMA 2009 Convention & Exhibit Booth Visit: McKesson Booth 60310/26/2009McKesson’s document imaging solutions allow HIM (health information management) departments to transform the way they handle physical documents and maintain a patient’s legal medical record.