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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.
VIDEOS FROM HIMSS14
FEATURED CONTENT
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Patient Empowerment In A Changing Environment8/28/2018
Health is not just occasional moments throughout a lifespan, but an ongoing journey with unexpected turning points, peaks, and valleys. While the current healthcare system is centered around 15-minute appointments with doctors and specialists, most of what impacts one’s health occurs not during those visits, but in between them. During these long stretches of time, medications change, symptoms fluctuate, additional labs and tests are administered, and visits to other specialists are scheduled. Health-related decisions take place nearly every minute of every day.
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Improving Healthcare Providers' Virtualization Experience Via Thin Clients3/29/2017
Today’s healthcare professionals want the same easy mobility and secure computing environment workers in other industries want. By Simon Clephan, Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances, IGEL
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HIMSS16: How The M&A Boom Is Changing Health IT2/29/2016
With HIMSS 2016 underway, a key topic of conversation centers on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Last year, large industry-leading deals characterized healthcare M&A with announcements form Aetna and Humana, Anthem and Cigna, and a large, nationwide movement of private practice acquisitions by hospitals and healthcare systems.
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Mismatched: How Patient Identification Errors Are Costing Patients And Health Systems11/29/2017
Imagine two patients with the same last name, admitted for separate ailments at the same hospital. One is mistakenly treated with a medication intended for the other patient—and has a serious reaction to the drug. Patient mix-ups are all-too-frequent occurrences at many hospitals across the U.S., leading to redundant tests, wrong diagnoses, incorrect treatment services and unnecessary hospitalizations – while increasing costs.
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Global Trends Sweeping Healthcare: How Analytics Is Helping The Industry To Respond10/21/2015
There is no doubt the healthcare industry is in the midst of transformative times, whether in terms of costs, pay structures, approaches or access. You name it, it’s changing. Five major global trends, tightly interconnected and relevant in both public and privately-funded healthcare environments, are driving much of the change. Here, we examine how healthcare organizations are responding and how analytics can support clinicians, patients’ and leaders during this critical time. By David Bolton, global industry solutions director for the public sector and healthcare, Qlik
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Non Profit Healthcare Provider Goes Mobile With Tablet Computers1/5/2012
Swedish Medical Center in Washington was in search of a device that would allow its mobile nurses to update and access patient information on the go. With a main focus on connectivity and mobility, this case study highlights how the medical center identified and selected the right mobile device — a tablet computer — to fit their complex workflow.