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Consumer interactions, clinical point-of-care tasks, EHR workflows, clinician burnout – all these can be tackled by automation and natural language processing.

It will soon offer the "full package" of hybrid virtual/in-person care in Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas and Boston, Insider reports, with more expansion to follow in 2022.

A psychiatrist who conducted one of the first virtual behavioral care visits explains how it's working for clinicians and patients. He stresses the importance of "webside manner."

Even when things go back to some semblance of normal and care teams return to their regular processes, burnout will still be felt. It's up to healthcare leaders to help manage workplace stress.

This week's top stories include workers at Tenet Healthcare hospitals securing better pay after striking, Inspiration4 testing the impact of spaceflight on the body, and scientists highlighting gaps in telemedicine.

In a new Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association article, scientists highlight the gaps they still see in telemedicine and the opportunities for growth beyond the COVID-19 crisis.

HIMSS’ Most Influential Women in Health IT Award recipients come together to talk about gender, race and equity in the workplace.

This week's top stories include Google disbanding its health division as VP Dr. David Feinberg leaves Google Health to serve as Cerner's CEO, and the FDA giving full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Sheldon Razin nominated a slate of new directors in an attempt to end what he says is the ambulatory IT vendor's "stagnation."

The "secret sauce" to effective care is for providers to imagine what the patient is going through and understand the real pain points before implementing a technology touch, says Dr. Adrienne Boissy, chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic.