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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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PulsePoint Secures Exclusive EHR Programmatic Partnership With Flora Health, Enabling Scalable In-Workflow Engagement With HCPs1/22/2026
PulsePoint, the leading technology company transforming healthcare marketing, today announced a strategic partnership with Flora Health, a healthcare technology company that supports coordinated point-of-care engagement by connecting technologies and partner solutions within existing electronic health records (EHRs) and health systems.
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Greenway Health® Launches Agentic AI Factory To Redefine The Future Of Healthcare Technology1/21/2026
Greenway Health, the modern leader in healthcare technology, today announced the launch of its Agentic AI Factory, developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Rapid Care Acquires DeepDoc To Expand AI-Powered Medical Record Intelligence1/21/2026
Rapid Care, an AI-driven healthcare technology company focused on addressing the industry's most complex operational and financial challenges, announces the acquisition of DeepDoc, an advanced artificial intelligence platform for medical record analysis and summarization.
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VectorCare Launches SoFaaS™ (SMART On FHIR As A Service)1/21/2026
Patient logistics and care coordination tech company VectorCare has announced the launch of SoFaaS™ (SMART on FHIR as a Service), a new infrastructure platform designed to dramatically accelerate how healthcare vendors, suppliers, and service providers build and deploy EHR-embedded applications.
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NCPDP Brings Pharmacy And Medication Standards Expertise To CMS Health Technology Ecosystem1/14/2026
NCPDP announced today that it has been selected to become part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Aligned Network.
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Private Practice Streamlines Clinician And Patient Care Processes With Tablet Computing5/19/2011This case study highlights how Clinique Esquirol Saint Hilaire was able to gain real-time access to procedural information, eliminate duplication of effort, and increase data security by deploying 85 tablet PCs across its 15 healthcare departments. By Motion Computing, Inc.
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Millennials Lead The Way To Healthcare Innovation10/3/2016
Statisticians, researchers, and workplace experts love to talk about how different Millennials are than the rest of us as workers and consumers. There have been numerous studies about the potential impact of this group on the healthcare industry, since healthcare defies nearly every value that Millennials hold dear. By Mark Haddad, VP of Consulting for the Microsoft group, SADA Systems
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White Paper: Using Open Standards And IHE To Build Distributed Clinical Exchange Networks2/22/2010Healthcare professionals rely on relevant, complete and critical clinical information to improve the quality of care for their patient. They expect secure access to clinical information, including diagnostic imaging, wherever that information resides in the healthcare community. By Rick Stroobosscher
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Fast-Track Your Healthcare Business Past Competitors By Properly Managing Your Reviews10/24/2017
Sixty-two percent of patients consider online reviews important or very important when making a choice in the healthcare sector. Reviews are extremely influential when you consider that each time a patient decides to come to your office, there is a very good chance they read your reviews before making their decision. By Collin Homes, Chatmeter Founder and CEO
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The EHR Didn't Cause The Ebola Death10/17/2014
We were all saddened when we heard of the death of Thomas Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola virus in our country, and immediately the blame game started. Apparently, Duncan had been seen previously in the ED and sent home without an accurate diagnosis or treatment. News slowly leaked out that his travel history never reached the treating provider even though it has been determined that it was documented in his electronic health record (EHR). Still, for whatever reason, it was not communicated and overlooked. By Linda M. Girgis, MD, FAAFP
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Mental Health Quantified: How Technology Measures The Impacts Of COVID-196/8/2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, people are increasingly looking at statistical data to understand how the situation is affecting all of us mentally. Research already shows the coronavirus pandemic has the potential to increase suicidal death exponentially. While public perception around the stigma of mental health has transpired for many years, new research has begun to quantify the real impact of mental health on the human psyche and body, much like weight gain is aligned with physical health.