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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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Leveraging The New HIT Landscape To Drive Clinical And Financial Excellence7/3/2018
In 2010, only about 15 percent of the nation’s hospitals had at least a basic clinical EHR in place. Thanks to the roll-out of the Meaningful Use program, that number had climbed to 95 percent by 2016. Although Meaningful Use was developed to promote the adoption of health information technology to improve clinical outcomes, the journey has been very painful for most clinicians, including nurses, physicians, pharmacists and others.
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Cybersecurity For C-level Healthcare Executives10/26/2018
Along with mitigating risk at an individual level, there’s an obvious requirement to ensure the systems, networks, and devices we rely on are protected against attacks from an ever-increasing number of malicious actors. Several attacks have gained ground in recent months to devastating effect, and its C-level executives that carry the ultimate responsibility for resolving these issues and preventing future catastrophe.
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3 Steps To Restoring Provider Passion11/20/2017
For those of us who entered the practice of medicine to help others, it can be incredibly disheartening when you realize you’re becoming burned out by the regulations, rules and technical challenges that keep you from focusing on what matters most: your patients. By Dr. Tom Schwieterman, vice president, Clinical Affairs and CMO, Midmark Corporation
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Post Traumatic Scheduling Disorder8/4/2016
How one hospitalist division’s physician shift scheduling broke and became something great. By Romil Chadha, MD, MPH, FACP, FHM, hospitalist at University of Kentucky HealthCare
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Remote Locations Put Health Information At Risk — 4 Ways To Improve Security7/13/2016
One-third of Americans fell victim to healthcare data breaches in 2015, and 98 percent of those leaks resulted from large-scale attacks directly targeting the healthcare industry. Healthcare providers must step up their security measures, especially now that care is increasingly provided beyond the walls of a hospital. By Karin Ratchinsky, director of healthcare vertical strategy, Level 3 Communications
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5 Best Practices For Overcoming Data Integration Challenges2/25/2016
Improving patient care, clinical outcomes, empowering patients, improving quality while reducing overall costs — what’s the common denominator for all of these? Data integration.