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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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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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Preparation — Not Payment: How To Protect Your Healthcare Organization From A Ransomware Attack5/14/2018
Just this past month (in March), Geneva, N.Y.-based Finger Lakes Health lost computer access and most of its phone lines after a hacker hijacked its systems and demanded payment to unlock them. After going into what it called “downtime paper” mode for about a week, Finger Lakes paid the ransom, for an undisclosed amount. “We’ve become very accustomed to relying on digital-everything — and this type of breach sets us back 30, 40 or 50 years,” an employee remarked, in describing the incident’s immediate impact.
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The State Of Telehealth In 20195/31/2019
To say that technology has had a strong influence on the healthcare industry in the last two decades is almost an understatement. Telehealth has developed considerably in the last few years, and its capabilities today look far different from they did 20 years ago — when it consisted of more basic communication functionalities, like SMS text or web chat.
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5 Trends In Healthcare Cloud Computing For 202011/19/2019
Cloud computing and healthcare go hand in hand and will continue to do so in 2020.
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Ransomware 101: What You Need To Know To Avoid Devastation7/21/2016
The first quarter of 2016 saw more than $209 million in ransomware payments made in the U.S. according to FBI estimates, compared to only $24 million in payments in all of 2015.
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Digital Paper For A Smarter Hospital: How Landmark Hospitals Upgraded The Patient Experience2/27/2020
Now more than ever, it is critical for information across the care continuum to be accurate. Data plays a crucial role in patient care, from Electronic Health/Medical Records (EHR/EMR) to Predictive Analytics. Digitization has been widely adopted and successful in improving workflow efficiency, enhancing the accuracy of communications, mitigating risk and improving safety for the benefit of patients.
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Beyond The Hype: How AI Will Drive The Rise Of Real-Time Analytics In Healthcare3/27/2018
Interest in artificial intelligence applications in radiology, clinical settings and operations is exploding, but its use in everyday settings in healthcare thus far has been more hype than reality.