< + > Weekly Roundup – October 31, 2026

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

Prioritizing Risk Management for the Most Significant Cybersecurity Threats. The Healthcare IT Today community is getting this done by emphasizing resilience instead of prevention, strengthening vendor risk management, and focusing on what’s most likely to disrupt care delivery. Read more…

Maintaining Independence Through Partnerships and Technology. Arlan Johnson, CEO of Howard County (Nebraska) Medical Center, talked to John Lynn about finding technology partners that know their EHR well and eliminating debt so there’s money to invest in new technology. Read more…

AI Is Changing More Than Coding for Healthcare Integration Engineers. John interviewed Kevin Day at Rhapsody about opportunities for AI to help with all the work that happens before and after writing the code. Read more…

Staff Safety and BLE Are Key for RTLS Adoption. Colin Hung learned these lessons at the CenTrak User Group Conference, which focused on changing the message from “tracking” to “locating” to reinforce safety rather than punitive monitoring. Read more…

The Hidden Fraud Risks in Healthcare Billing and Payments. John connected with Elliot Darling at MEDITECH and Tyler Stoltz at ECHO to learn about the value of integrating payment processing with the EHR, which creates a smaller attack surface for fraudsters. Read more…

Highlights From The Sequoia Project and Carequality Annual Meeting. ONC’s deregulation approach with HTI 5 (especially information blocking) got a lot attention; so did all the workgroups the entities have organized to build trust in health data exchange. Read more…

Exploring Trust in Healthcare and Interoperability at the DirectTrust Conference. Identity management, AI governance, credentials, and the evolution of Direct Secure Messaging are the topics that got John’s attention. Read more…

Building Deep Client Relationships to Improve RCM. Sid Mehta at Access Healthcare sat down with John to talk about guiding healthcare organizations through a crisis and transitioning from a vendor to a partner. Read more…

Insights From the eHealth Exchange Annual Meeting. Topics of discussion included the challenges of payer-provider data exchange and understanding the risk of sharing low-quality data. Read more…

Perspectives From the AHIMA Annual Conference. Main takeaways included better understanding patient journeys as well as maintaining human expertise and governance while adopting AI. Read more… 

Insights From the eClinicalWorks National Conference. Key themes from the user conference included reframing the EHR as the system of intelligence and helping health systems build their own AI agents. Read more…

Life Sciences Today Podcast: Beyond Voice Agents. Danny Lieberman chatted with Alex Cohen at Hello Patient about making AI agents for outpatient care useful beyond a scripted demo. Read more…

Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Over or Under? John and Colin placed their bets on everything from how many health systems will consider replacing their EHRs to how much healthcare data will still be inaccessible because of interop issues. Read more…

The Strong Case for Urgent, Careful Progress With AI. Ahmed Omar and Amit Kumthekar talked about why they co-founded Sully.ai to automate the administrative work surrounding each visit and give doctors more of their time back. Read more…

Nationwide Diagnostic Image Exchange Is Possible With TEFCA. Matt Doyle at Epic said health IT companies must adopt open standards to exchange images so patients experience fewer care delays and providers realize more cost savings. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for October 28, 2026: Acadia Healthcare and Encompass Health both seek CEOs. Read more…

Bonus Features for October 25, 2026: 40% of orgs say identity authentication difficulties delay patient care; Epic introduces Connectors for third-party apps. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Indiana provider Parkview Health acquired Ovation Healthcare, a shared services provider
• Redesign Health and ARC Global merged; the new entity also agreed to acquire AVIA, a digital transformation consultancy.
• Zocdoc acquired Sohar Health, which automates insurance benefits eligibility checks.
• Diverge Health and Medical Home Network merged, creating a value-based care organization dedicated to under-resourced communities.
• Clinical AI agent company Suki announced $90 million in financing as part of its Series E.
• Operational AI agent company Confido Health announced $22.5 million in total Series A funding.
• Clinical research financial operations platform Peppermint announced $4.7 million in seed funding.
• Vinyl Health announced $2 million in seed funding; the startup makes ambient AI to help patient voice-record health information.

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< + > Parkview Health Announces Agreement to Acquire Ovation Healthcare | Redesign Health and ARC Global Merge

Check out today’s featured companies who have recently completed an M&A deal, and be sure to check out the full list of past healthcare IT M&A.

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Parkview Health Announces Agreement to Acquire Ovation Healthcare to Strengthen Community Healthcare Nationwide, Advance Local Affordability

Parkview Health has signed an agreement to acquire Ovation Healthcare, a leading provider of shared services that strengthen the operational and financial performance of hospitals, health systems, and physician practices nationwide.

As the largest rural healthcare provider in Indiana, Parkview understands the severe resource constraints facing rural hospitals nationwide. By investing in Ovation Healthcare, Parkview is bringing its administrative and operational expertise, such as in revenue cycle management and information services, to a premier national rural health platform to help providers keep care close to home in the communities that need it most.

“With Ovation Healthcare, we are extending Parkview’s proven operational depth across the nation to help rural providers remain independent, while continuing to drive down administrative costs for our local patients,” said Rick Henvey, CEO at Parkview Health. “Rural healthcare is in crisis across the country because of a lack of resources and models that allow providers to succeed. Through Ovation, we can help rural providers lower the cost of care with essential infrastructure and allow them to focus their resources on patient care.”

Parkview began expanding its operational capabilities to support independent healthcare providers in 2025. Through its investment in Ovation, Parkview can expand its commitment to a national shared services platform that allows hospitals to focus their resources on clinical care while also lowering costs. Following closing, the two companies will combine their complementary operations and operate under the Ovation Healthcare brand…

Full release here, originally announced October 16th, 2026.

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Redesign Health and ARC Global Merge to Help Health Systems Shape the Future of Healthcare From Within

Redesign Health and Sheba Medical Center’s ARC Global Also to Acquire AVIA, With the Three Organizations Bringing Together More Than 100 Health Systems and the Technology, Talent, and Capital to Turn Frontline Ideas Into Products and Companies that Scale Worldwide

Dr. Stephen Klasko Named Chairman of the Board; Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, Founder and President of ARC Global, Joins Redesign Health as Vice Chairman

Redesign Health, a global venture and applied technology firm focused on building next-generation healthcare companies, and ARC Global, the healthcare transformation engine founded at Sheba Medical Center, today announced they are merging. Together, the organizations will equip health systems to turn the ideas and experience of their own clinicians and operators into technology products, viable companies, and lasting capabilities that can improve care worldwide, with the institutions sharing in the value they create. The combined business is being launched in partnership with world-leading health systems across five continents.

The organizations bring together the resources to carry innovation from an idea on the hospital floor through development, deployment, and commercialization. ARC Global’s clinician-led innovation model and global network will be matched by Redesign Health’s AI products, embedded engineering and company-building capabilities. Health systems will gain a path to address their own clinical and operational challenges, demonstrate what works in practice and bring successful solutions to peer institutions across a global network.

Overstretched health systems globally are facing an increasingly urgent need to expand access and improve care while managing workforce constraints, rising costs and limited resources for change. While AI creates potential to tackle some of the growing pressures, implementing it in a way that’s effective, safe and sustainable requires proper infrastructure, including clinical and technological expertise, engineering, institutional support and a way to scale what works beyond a pilot. The combined business is built to close that gap, placing the engineering, AI expertise and capital to deploy at scale inside the institutions that need it.

Dr. Stephen Klasko, former CEO of Jefferson Health, who grew the system from a regional player into a nearly $10 billion academic medical enterprise, will serve as chairman of the board…

Full release here, originally announced October 22nd, 2026.

< + > Peppermint Raises $4.7M | Vinyl Health Raises $2M

Check out today’s featured companies who have recently raised a round of funding, and be sure to check out the full list of past healthcare IT fundings.

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Peppermint Raises $4.7M to Bring Scientific Precision to the Finances of Clinical Research

Company’s AI-Powered Platform was Purpose-Built for Clinical Trial Teams and Hospital Systems to Transform Clinical Research Into a Scalable Engine for Financial Growth and Scientific Discovery

Peppermint, an AI-powered platform that streamlines financial operations and accelerates growth for clinical research teams, today announced $4.7 million in seed funding led by Moxxie, with participation from Homebrew, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Layout Ventures, Digital Health Venture Partners, Night Capital, and angel investors Benjamin Mann and Evan Moore. The funding will further enable the founding team, who previously built payments and reconciliation infrastructure for Robinhood, to transform clinical research into a scalable engine for financial growth and scientific discovery.

Despite advances in the science and technology driving novel drug development, the industry still relies on an antiquated and fragmented financial framework. Instead of payments flowing smoothly between sponsors, CROs, health systems, and research sites, clinical research relies on a patchwork of systems that were never designed to work together. Every party absorbs the cost of that complexity. Health systems carry it across an entire research portfolio, where the finances of clinical research remain one of the least visible lines on the balance sheet. Sites feel it most acutely: One-third of sites have more than 90 days’ worth of overdue receivables, and 50% of sites have three months or less of operating capital, according to a 2024 survey by the Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS).

Peppermint is the first AI-powered financial operations platform designed exclusively for clinical research, bringing the uncompromising precision and auditable accuracy of clinical science to its own revenue cycle.

Co-Founders David Freeman and VJ Thurimella met at X1, where they were the respective first business hire and first engineer. Together, they helped build the financial infrastructure behind the consumer credit card business that Robinhood acquired to launch its Gold Card. When they saw the inefficiency of financial systems behind clinical research – and how it was depriving research teams of not only cash, but visibility into how much a study actually generates in revenue, how much it costs to run, and the metrics behind both – they knew their fintech experience could break open the industry’s financial black box.

“At X1 and Robinhood we helped build systems designed for precision and scale, to process billions of dollars every year,” said Freeman…

Full release here, originally announced October 8th, 2026.

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Vinyl Health Raises $2M from HealthX Ventures to Help Patients Record, Understand, and Share Their Care

New Personal Health Assistant Puts Patients in Control of Their Health Story While Helping Families and Care Teams Stay Connected

Vinyl Health, a patient-first health technology company using ambient AI to help people record, understand, and share their own health information, today announced $2 million in seed funding led by HealthX Ventures. The funding will support Vinyl’s broader public launch and continued development of its personal health assistant, now available in the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store.

Navigating healthcare is increasingly difficult for patients and families. Information is often scattered across portals, printouts, visit summaries, referrals, family text chains, and memory. Vinyl helps people bring that information into one place. In addition to recording health visits and voice notes, people can pull health records from connected providers into Vinyl, creating a fuller picture of their care. Vinyl uses carefully calibrated AI tools to make sense of what happened and what comes next, while making it easy to share the right details with providers, bring loved ones in to help navigate care, and organize support from a wider circle of friends and family who want to help.

Vinyl was dreamed up by Dr. Kaitlan Baston, a national leader in integrated care and former New Jersey health commissioner and hospital CEO, to empower patients to better understand their health care and reduce the burden on patients and their loved ones.

“Patients are expected to make important decisions about their health, but they often leave appointments or hospitalizations without a clear understanding of what happened or what to do next,” said Dr. Kaitlan Baston, CEO at Vinyl Health…

Full release here, originally announced October 20th, 2026.

< + > AI Is Changing More Than Coding for Healthcare Integration Engineers

There’s a lot more to software development than writing code. That’s especially true in healthcare, where integration engineers have to connect complex systems and ensure healthcare data flows reliably between them based on national standards and local implementation details. In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today, Kevin Day, Chief Technology Officer at Rhapsody, points out that integration engineers spend much of their time finding and reviewing documentation, interpreting the requirements, doing real-world testing, and troubleshooting. While AI is getting plenty of attention for its ability to generate code, Day sees an even bigger opportunity for AI to help with all the work that happens before and after writing the code.

Rhapsody Axon is the AI behind Rhapsody’s products. It’s built in, not added on top. Axon understands the details of an organization’s environment and the external standards it has to meet.

Axon can guide engineers through building an integration in Rhapsody or Corepoint. Rhapsody Axon Broadcast, a new product for health tech companies, uses Axon to turn their technical documentation into playbooks that healthcare organizations can find and build from.

During much of our interview, Day describes the cultural and business shift available to an organization that uses AI this way. Instead of obsessing over the backlog of feature requests and bugs, they can look for new ways to serve clients and their patients. Day uses the phrase “faster time to value,” referring to producing products faster and serving new clients. The question becomes “What can we do next?”

When determining the value and costs of adding AI, Day recommends avoiding simplistic metrics such as lines of code. Instead, business leaders should measure outcomes such as time to product, or how often an engineer had to change the outcome to match the requirements.

He also warns that with faster coding and requirements processing, the organization’s bottleneck might move to testing or some other stage.

Finally, people with deep knowledge of standards and clinical concepts are still important in the age of AI. They are doing less of the clerical work of checking documents and moving up to orchestration and review.

Find out more details about how Rhapsody is using AI to make integration engineers more efficient in our interview with Kevin Day.

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< + > This Week’s Health IT Jobs – October 28, 2026

It can be very overwhelming scrolling through job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week.

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found:

• Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO) – Healthcare – Meriplex
• eDiscovery & Cybersecurity Analyst – GE HealthCare
• VP, Artificial Intelligence Vendor Governance & Oversight (Remote) – Molina Healthcare
• Chief Medical Information Officer Regional Executive Director – AdventHealth
• Security Threat Analyst – Harris Health
• Analyst I, Healthcare Data – Boston Children’s Hospital
• Chief Operating Officer – McLaren Health Care
• Patient Access Acute Coordinator – Intermountain Health
• President – Ascension
• Trauma Data Specialist – Nebraska Medicine
• BH Hospital Chief Executive Officer – Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
• CyberSecurity Analyst II – Jefferson Health
• Data Coordinator I- Environmental Medicine – Mount Sinai Health System
• Chief Executive Officer – Encompass Health
• Health Record and Information Technician PACE – Sentara Health
• Enterprise Security Architect – UT Medical
• Chief Data and Insights Officer – AdventHealth
• Cyber Security Engineer – ScaleHealthTech
• Privacy Manager – AdventHealth
• Chief Executive Officer – Acadia Healthcare

If none of these jobs fit your needs, be sure to check out our previous health IT job listings.

Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill? Contact us here with a link to the open position and we’ll be happy to feature it in next week’s article at no charge!

*Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community. Healthcare IT Today does not endorse or vouch for the company or the job posting. We encourage anyone applying to these jobs to do their own due diligence.

< + > Access Healthcare Builds Deep Client Relationships to Improve RCM

In our recent interview at the AHIMA Annual conference, Sid Mehta, President & Chief Growth Officer at Access Healthcare, discusses the relational aspects of his company’s work and how they support their clients’ RCM needs. Clients often approach Access Healthcare in a crisis. Access Healthcare experts have learned to solve problems through empathy, to “meet them where they are” but not to jump to a solution, instead working to “diagnose the fundamentals of the business.”

He sees growth as a “mindset,” where solutions are not one-time fixes but evolve through dialog and working together. Many clients start by treating Access Healthcare as just a vendor, but come to see the company as a partner, a “deep embedded relationship,” perhaps after they put together a difficult solution quickly by understanding exactly what the client needs.

Regarding AI, Mehta says that we can’t do what we need to do without technology, and that solutions combine human expertise with AI.

He also discusses worries that clients have with a company that employs a team globally, and that the key is for the people dealing with each client to emulate their culture. He says that Access Healthcare has to “serve internal staff too,” recognizing their unqiue needs.

To better serve clients, they employ the data collected during their 14 to 15 years of experience to show what is possible, what can and cannot be achieved. Many pilots work well because top resources were thrown at them, but scaling up is where the product really proves itself.

Check out our interview with Sid Mehta from Access Healthcare to learn more about how their approach to RCM can help your organization.

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< + > Zocdoc Acquires Sohar Health | Diverge Health Merges with Medical Home Network

Check out today’s featured companies who have recently completed an M&A deal, and be sure to check out the full list of past healthcare IT M&A.

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Zocdoc Acquires Sohar Health to Make Insurance Easier to Navigate for Patients and Providers

First Acquisition in Zocdoc’s Nearly 20-Year History Marks a Continued Investment in Healthcare Access Infrastructure as the Company Expands Beyond Its Marketplace to Power Access to Care Everywhere Patients Search

Zocdoc, the healthcare access infrastructure that connects patients to great care, today announced it has acquired Sohar Health, a healthcare technology company that automates insurance benefits eligibility checks, making it easier to find and verify patients’ coverage. The transaction, which closed on October 2nd, 2026, marks the first acquisition in Zocdoc’s nearly 20-year history. As Zocdoc expands its healthcare access infrastructure, it is investing in scaling capabilities that make the path to care simpler for patients and providers, including insurance verification.

Zocdoc knows the strength of Sohar’s differentiated technology and team firsthand, as this acquisition builds on an existing relationship. The two companies have worked closely together since 2025, when Zocdoc selected Sohar as its insurance technology partner after evaluating many other solutions on the market. Sohar stood out, particularly in its ability to find patients’ coverage with minimal inputs. Since then, Sohar’s technology and expertise have become an important part of Zocdoc’s work to make insurance easier to navigate for patients and providers alike.

Investing in Healthcare Access Infrastructure at Scale

This acquisition comes at a moment when Zocdoc is investing in scaling its reach. Earlier this month, the company announced a significant expansion with the launch of Zocdoc’s Care Access Network, opening the infrastructure it built for its marketplace over nearly two decades to power access to care everywhere patients search.

Partners including Amazon Health AI, Gemini, Yelp, Healthgrades and Blue Shield of California can connect their users to real-time availability and booking with more than 200,000 providers across 200+ specialties and 10,000+ insurance plans, directly on their properties — powered by Zocdoc. The Sohar acquisition builds on that expansion, adding insurance technology to make coverage verification more seamless at scale, both on Zocdoc and across its partner network…

Full release here, originally announced October 14th, 2026.

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Diverge Health Merges with Medical Home Network to Strengthen Value-Based Care for Safety-Net Providers and Patients

The Combined Company is Creating a New Standard to Drive Better Outcomes for Providers Dedicated to Under-Resourced Communities

Diverge Health, an organization that partners with primary care practices to strengthen the care they deliver to underserved patients, today announced they are merging with Medical Home Network (MHN), a public benefit corporation (PBC) that partners with federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) to build healthier communities. The combined company will create one of the largest value-based care organizations in the country dedicated to under-resourced communities.

The merger brings together two mission-aligned organizations with a shared founding history in Medicaid, proving their models on the hardest-to-reach and most socially complex populations before expanding into Medicare. MHN has spent more than 15 years working alongside community health centers and launched one of the first and most successful FQHC-focused Medicaid ACOs nationally. Diverge has largely built its network across independent primary care practices and invested heavily in community-based care teams, delivering a 2% reduction in population-level medical loss ratio with a national payer and a 6% increase in patients visiting their primary care provider in 2025.

Together in 2027, the companies will partner with nearly 100 FQHCs, more than 300 independent practices, and over 20 Medicaid and Medicare payer partners across nine states, supporting nearly 500,000 members and $3 billion in medical spend. The combined organization will embed local community health teams alongside partner practices so that providers can proactively address patients’ clinical, behavioral, and social needs and reduce total cost of care. The company’s proprietary risk modeling identifies rising-risk patients early and puts those insights and auto-generated care plans in the hands of local teams. Through continued investments in AI, the company aims to lower the cost of engaging each patient while extending providers’ reach and preserving the relationships patients already trust.

“Value-based care is notoriously hard, especially in Medicaid, but strengthening our country’s primary care backbone and supporting their patients to live their healthiest lives is a moral imperative,” said Binoy Bhansali, Co-Founder and CEO at Diverge Health…

Full release here, originally announced October 13th, 2026.