< + > Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – March 11, 2026 – Epic AI news, Microsoft Dragon Copilot integrations, plus 22 other stories

Welcome to a special edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features including interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more from HIMSS26 in Las Vegas. Because it’s such a busy week for the entire industry, we want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

Top News

• Wolters Kluwer Health UpToDate integrated with Microsoft Dragon Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Microsoft Teams. In addition, real-world evidence company Atropos Health announced a collaboration with Microsoft Dragon Copilot at Stanford Medicine. Finally, Microsoft updated Microsoft Dragon Copilot with apps and agents available through Microsoft Marketplace (among other things).
• Epic announced that more than 85% of its customers use Epic AI; the company also announced forthcoming AI capabilities such as conversational AI for clinicians, an AI agent factory, and differential diagnosis support.
• Two-thirds of healthcare organizations suffered a material cyberattack in the past 12 months, according to Cohesity. Among those organizations, 92% lost revenue and 59% lost customers.

Product Announcements

• Ambient monitoring technology from Cherish is integrated with Aileen, an AI-based senior companion.
• Real-time location systems (RTLS) vendor CenTrak debuted four new products supported by Bluetooth Low Energy.
• Certilytics announced the Certilytics Health Language Model for predictive analytics.
• RTLS vendor Cognosos announced encounter-sensing tags designed to automate the capture of staff-to-patient interactions.
• ControlUp announced Tap-to-App to improve the log-in experience for clinicians moving across shared workstations.
• DrFirst released the next version of RxInform, its real-time prescription engagement platform.
• eClinicalWorks debuted the AI API Workbench, which helps small and mid‑size practices customize autonomous AI agents within eCW EHR workflows.
• FDB previewed two medication workflow automation products: FDB Script Agent (for ambulatory settings) and FDB VerifyAssist (for inpatient pharmacy orders).
• FUJIFILM showcased two radiology workflow tools: Synapse AI Orchestrator and Synapse Worklist Orchestrator.
• Greenway Health launched Novare by Greenway Health, a clinical and RCM platform powered by agentic AI and built specifically for ambulatory care.
• Ambient AI scribe Heidi announced a partnership with R1, an RCM vendor, to link care delivery and reimbursement processes for providers.
• Innovaccer launched Flow Capture, an autonomous medical coding solution.
• MediQuant expanded capabilities across its enterprise archiving platform with clinical summaries and embedded DICOM viewing.
• ModMed updated ModMed Scribe, its AI assistant, to include note reconciliation and iPhone support.
• PointClickCare launched Discharge Intel to give health plans clinical intelligence within 24 hours of hospital discharge. In addition, document exchange vendor Documo announced its availability on PointClickCare’s Marketplace.
• RingCentral announced RingCentral AIR Pro for Healthcare, an AI agent platform for automating high-volume administrative workflows across voice, SMS, video, and messaging.
• Talkdesk expanded Talkdesk CXA, its customer experience automation platform, to cover specialty and team-based scheduling in healthcare. In addition, Talkdesk announced the new CXA Operations Center and enhanced Talkdesk Interaction and Quality Analytics solutions.
• Zebra Technologies introduced Orchestrated Care, a framework for healthcare operations workflow automation.

Implementations

• Louisiana-based Ochsner Health implemented CLEAR1, CLEAR’s secure identity platform. In addition, CMS released Medicare.gov Enhanced Login options, which includes the option to use CLEAR to create a new account or verify their identity.
• Delta Dental implemented Singulr AI’s Agent Pulse, which monitors the behavior of AI agents.
• New York-based Northwell Health implemented XiFin Empower AI, the company’s RCM ecosystem.

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< + > Optimum Healthcare IT Frees Health Care Providers to Focus on Strategy

There is a lot of talk about staffing shortages and cost pressures in the health care industry. But Scott Gildea, Executive Vice President, Managed Services at Optimum Healthcare IT, has found that one challenge the providers have is just keeping up with the “cycle of innovation.” He charactizes the technology of health care as being in a “constant state of innovation” that forces on providers a “constant state of implementation.”

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today, Gene Scheurer, Founder and CEO at Optimum Healthcare IT, and Gildea explain how the company is helping hospitals and health systems free their staff to focus on strategic change by creating a managed services platform—a Center of Excellence—that can take on routine operations and maintenance.

Optimum Healthcare IT recently announced their new Managed Services Center of Excellence in Costa Rica. In the interview below, Scheurer and Gildea share some of the reasons why they chose Costa Rica and the benefits hospitals and health systems receive from this new center.  Chief among its advantages is the ease of recruiting a highly skilled workforce. The country’s schools offer a lot STEM training and emphasize critical thinking, so that they have some of the highest aptitude testing in Latin America. The country is also stable politically and geographically not too distant from US, as well as being in the same time zone as part of the US.  Plus, there’s the obvious dual language advantage their partners benefit from.

Check out our interview with Optimum Healthcare IT to learn more about this new Center of Excellence in Costa Rica and how they’re able to provide managed services that allow a healthcare organization to focus on other strategic priorities.

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< + > Danaher To Acquire Masimo Corporation | Exa Capital Acquires StaffReady

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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Danaher To Acquire Masimo Corporation

Danaher Corporation, a global science and technology innovator, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Masimo Corporation, a leading specialty diagnostics provider of pulse oximetry and other patient monitoring solutions, primarily in acute care settings. Under the terms of the agreement, Danaher will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Masimo common stock for $180 per share in cash, or a total enterprise value of approximately $9.9 billion including assumed indebtedness and net of acquired cash. This represents a transaction multiple of approximately 18x estimated 2027 EBITDA, or 15x 2027 estimated EBITDA, including the full benefit of expected annual synergies.

Rainer M. Blair, President and Chief Executive Officer at Danaher, said, “We are excited to welcome the Masimo team to Danaher. We’ve followed this innovative company for many years and see it as an exceptional strategic fit for Danaher. Masimo is a leader in pulse oximetry and other patient monitoring solutions, which, combined with its trusted brand and differentiated technology, will greatly strengthen our diagnostics franchise. With the Danaher Business System and our global scale, we see opportunities to expand Masimo’s reach and continue improving outcomes for patients, particularly those in acute care settings.”

Julie Sawyer Montgomery, Executive Vice President for Diagnostics at Danaher, said, “Masimo’s advanced sensor technology and AI-enabled monitoring bring powerful new capabilities to our diagnostics portfolio. Integrating these strengths into Danaher will create meaningful opportunities to innovate for clinicians and improve decision-making in critical settings.”

Upon completion of the transaction, Masimo will be a standalone operating company within Danaher’s Diagnostics segment, along with Radiometer, Leica Biosystems, Cepheid, and Beckman Coulter Diagnostics. Masimo is expected to be accretive to adjusted diluted net earnings per common share by $0.15 to $0.20 in the first full year and approximately $0.70 in the fifth full year following completion of the acquisition. Masimo is expected to deliver high-single-digit core revenue growth over the long-term, accelerating Danaher’s Diagnostics segment core revenue growth profile.

Under Danaher’s ownership, Masimo is expected to generate EBITDA of more than $530 million in 2027. Additionally, Danaher expects to realize more than $125 million of annual cost synergies and more than $50 million of annual revenue synergies by the fifth full year…

Full release here, originally announced February 17th, 2026.

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Exa Capital Acquires StaffReady

Exa Capital, a strategic long-term operator that buys and holds enterprise software companies forever, is proud to announce the acquisition of StaffReady, a leading SaaS platform for clinical workforce management in healthcare.

Founded in 1995 and cloud-native since 2002, StaffReady delivers a mission-critical platform purpose-built for managing clinical workforces across multiple healthcare industries. The StaffReady platform supports hospital ancillary departments such as laboratories, pharmacies, PT, rehab, and support services, as well as standalone bioscience, pharmaceutical, and commercial lab test design corporations. The platform enables healthcare organizations to streamline compliance, staff scheduling, inspection preparation, and workforce readiness, ensuring the right people are in the right place at the right time.

The acquisition reinforces Exa Capital’s presence in healthcare technology and expands its portfolio into the space of clinical workforce, where efficiency, compliance, and patient safety intersect.

“StaffReady has built a platform that sits at the core of clinical workforce operations,” said Mike Knebel, Portfolio Manager at Exa Capital. “Their deep understanding of compliance, scheduling, and inspection readiness reflects years of thoughtful execution. We’re looking forward to working closely with the team to strengthen operations, support product innovation, and help scale the business responsibly over the long term.”

“Joining Exa Capital represents an exciting next chapter for StaffReady,” said John Janzen, Founder and CTO at StaffReady…

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

< + > The Hidden Complexity of Nutrition + Meals and How Illumia is Fixing It

Healthcare is full of complex workflows, but we overlook one of the most operationally intense areas of any hospital: nutrition and dining service. Just think of all the allergies, dietary restrictions, and nutritional requirements that go into making a single patient’s meal. Then, factor in the logistics of managing a restaurant at scale for visitors and staff. The reality? Food service and retail management in healthcare is a massive, complex engine. And when it’s not running smoothly, it impacts everything from patient safety to staff burnout.

To get the inside scoop on how technology is solving these operational headaches, I headed down to the user conference for Illumia (the new name for the merged company formerly called CBORD and Transact). I wanted to find out exactly how they are helping health systems manage everything from patient meals to retail outlets. In the video below, I sit down with Jenna Sampson, Nutrition Systems Coordinator from UC Health, Tony Boggs, Senior Director of Support Services at Corwell Health, executives from Illumia, and a few fascinating partners to unpack the surprising complexities of this space.

The Financial Power of a Single Dining Service Foundation

One of the biggest takeaways for me was the sheer scale and financial impact of consolidating nutrition technology. Boggs shared how their newly formed health organization was grappling with three separate instances of their CBORD platform. By moving to a single foundation with Illumia’s net menu product, they didn’t just standardize recipes and ordering across 24 hospitals—they paved the way for a single, seamless connection into their Epic EHR. It has allowed them to have more consistent pricing, manage suppliers better, and ultimately save money through reduced food waste.

The Impact of Food Services for Staff

The other aspect that stood out was how deeply food service technology impacts the daily lives of clinical staff.

Nurses are stretched thin, often getting only 30 minutes to grab their food, eat, and get back to work. They do not have time to stand in a long line. Solutions like online ordering, self-serve checkouts, and kiosks are moving the needle on staff satisfaction by making the lunch process incredibly swift. On the patient side, Sampson explained how they use iPhones with the CBORD patient app, empowering nurses to input dietary-compliant meal orders right in the room. This ensures safety protocols—like specialized safety trays—are strictly followed while making the entire ordering process friction-free.

The Bottom Line

I have to admit, my eyes were completely opened to how complex this world really is. When you leverage the right technology in the cafeteria and the kitchen, it really does make a massive difference for the patient and staff experience.

What My Time at Illumia’s User Conference Revealed

• System Consolidation: Managing multiple disconnected databases for nutrition creates costly inefficiencies and operational risks. The process: Migrating to a single Illumia net menu platform connected directly to the Epic EHR. The outcome: Standardized recipes, better supplier negotiations, and reduced food waste that saves the healthcare system real money.
• Staff Burnout: Nurses only get 30 minutes for lunch and simply cannot afford to waste time standing in long cafeteria lines. The process: Implementing online ordering, self-serve checkouts, and swift order-entry kiosks. The outcome: A frictionless lunch experience that respects staff time, reduces stress, and gets them back to their patients faster.
• Patient Safety: Juggling complex dietary restrictions, severe allergies, and physical safety requirements for patient meals is incredibly complex. The process: Equipping nurses with iPhones loaded with the CBORD/Illumia patient app to input orders right at the bedside. The outcome: Guaranteed compliance with safety tray protocols and a highly accurate, personalized patient meal experience

< + > What “Positive Distractions” Can Do to Reshape the Pediatric Hospital Experience

The following is a guest article by Brandon Kuzara, Corporate & Healthcare Account Director at Dimensional Innovations

Being hospitalized is difficult at any age, but for children, the experience can feel especially isolating. Pediatric patients can face long stays, repeated procedures, and separation from friends, school, and the everyday routines that bring them comfort. Some studies have shown that a significant portion of the millions of children hospitalized each year experience anxiety as a result of their stay, making it clear something needs to be done to allay those concerns.

The clinical burdens are enough for any patient, but saddling the emotional toll on children, as a result of stress, anxiety, boredom, and loneliness, can bring even more elements that require healing.

As a result, hospital managers across the country are increasingly recognizing that supporting pediatric patients requires more than medical treatment alone. Emotional well-being, social connection, and comfort play critical roles in recovery. One emerging approach is the use of technology and shared digital experiences to help children feel less alone during care, resulting in what the experience design field calls ‘positive distractions’.

These sorts of immersive experiences can reduce anxiety, bring the focus away from medical treatments, and in some cases, even forge new connections between other patients going through the same experiences.

Addressing the Emotional Side of Pediatric Hospitalization

For children, hospitals can feel overwhelming. The unfamiliar environment, constant interruptions, and uncertainty of treatment create stress that extends beyond the physical illness. While pediatric units are designed to be more child-friendly than adult wards, many patients still spend long hours confined to rooms, often with limited opportunities for peer interaction.

Social connection is a powerful factor in pediatric well-being. Children are naturally wired for play, imagination, and shared experiences. Yet hospital stays can remove those outlets at the moment they are needed most.

This is where immersive and collaborative engagements can become even more important than just traditional entertainment. Interactive experiences can provide positive distractions from pain, reduce anxiety, and create moments of normalcy. Importantly, shared experiences can also help patients feel part of a community rather than alone in their journey.

Positive Distractions in Action

One such example of this positive distraction being put into practice is CreatureVerse, an immersive gaming experience designed and built specifically for children in pediatric care units, such as infusion centers, hematology/oncology departments, and more. Centralized screens are installed in the departments for patients to interact with, with the experience also able to be extended to patient/treatment room TVs. It also gives players a chance to work and interact with others just like them.

The games are controlled via smartphone and have worlds where young patients can explore and accomplish different goals with fun characters, such as customizable dinosaurs, moose, or owls. It was also designed with the setting in mind, hoping for it to remain fun and engaging for patients who engage with it over a long period of time, or repeat visitors who may need the distraction more than once.

Distractions have the ability to help pediatric patients cope with fear, fatigue, and even limited mobility. With that in mind, those same experiences need to be accessible, intuitive, and supportive, rather than overstimulating and stress-inducing. The nature of shared play, especially with other patients who can relate to the player’s situation, is underutilized in this sort of approach and will be a growing trend moving forward.

As immersive platforms continue to evolve, healthcare leaders will need to consider how such tools can integrate into pediatric care strategies alongside child life services, mental health support, and family-centered programming.

What Positive Distractions Can Mean for the Future of Pediatric Care

These sorts of positive distractions are more than simple games. Instead, they represent a shift in how hospitals are thinking about the pediatric patient experience. Technology offers a lot of promise in a number of areas, especially in clinical care. It’s imperative for health facilities managers to envision their most vulnerable populations and everything they may need. By combining immersive technology with shared play and thoughtful design, positive distractions can offer children moments of connection, imagination, and relief during some of the most stressful periods of their lives. For health facilities, embracing positive distractions as a critical part of providing complete care to pediatric patients can help them create a more holistic impact.

About Brandon Kuzara

Brandon Kuzara is the Corporate & Healthcare Account Director at Dimensional Innovations, bringing more than seven years of experience in client success, account management, and business development, partnering with organizations across a range of industries. He approaches each engagement with a focus on trust, clarity, and long-term partnership, aligning stakeholder priorities with practical solutions that drive measurable value.

< + > Synthpop Raises $15 Million Series A | Solace Raises $130 Million Series C

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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Synthpop Raises $15 Million Series A to Scale AI that Makes Healthcare More Human

Synthpop, Inc., a healthcare AI company building agentic automation to eliminate administrative bottlenecks in payer, provider, and patient operations, announced today a $15 million Series A, bringing the company’s total funding to $23 million. The round was led by Ansa Capital, with Marco DeMeireles, Co‑Founder & Managing Partner at Ansa, joining Synthpop’s Board of Directors. Defy.vc and Peterson Ventures participated in the round, alongside Storm Ventures and strategic investor Bruce Broussard.

Synthpop unifies document intelligence, payer-aware reasoning, and conversational voice agents into one coordinated system that automates up to 80% of healthcare business processes. These agents integrate directly with EHR, billing, and e-prescribe platforms, and customers use them to handle workflows that range from referrals, prior authorizations, eligibility checks, claims follow-ups, to patient access and more – reducing denials, saving costs, speeding up patient care, and lightening the overall administrative burden. Over the past year, Synthpop has demonstrated significant traction, processing over 2 million patients and now integrating with 8 major EHR systems.

“Point solutions can’t fix operational bottlenecks,” said Elad Ferber, CEO at Synthpop. “Providers need a unified system that understands insurance requirements, handles phone calls naturally, and works seamlessly with their existing software. This funding helps us expand our coverage and deepen integrations so providers can scale their operations and expand access to care.”

Some of the nation’s largest organizations across DME, Fertility, Diagnostics, and more have already seen substantial benefits by adopting Synthpop. Workflows that historically took 40 minutes are now processed in <1 minute at a 5x lower cost than traditional human labor spend, while maintaining complete compliance and transparency.

“Healthcare organizations have long been constrained by highly manual workflows and human capital bottlenecks. AI-native solutions like Synthpop are the only way for them to fulfill rising demand and increased patient expectations,” said Marco DeMeireles, Co‑Founder & Managing Partner at Ansa…

Full release here, originally announced February 3rd, 2026.

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Solace Raises $130 Million Series C to Make Healthcare Advocacy a Standard of Care in the U.S.

New Funding Accelerates Solace’s Expansion, Establishing Healthcare Advocacy as Essential Infrastructure for Closing the Gaps Between Diagnosis and Treatment

Solace Health today announced a $130 million Series C funding round led by IVP, accelerating the company’s mission to make advocacy a standard part of care for every patient in the United States. The Series C values Solace at over $1 billion and reflects a growing consensus that healthcare advocacy is no longer optional as costs rise and systems fracture. The round also included participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures, SignalFire, Torch Capital, Inspired Capital, and RiverPark Ventures.

Despite unprecedented healthcare spending, millions of Americans still struggle to access timely, coordinated care, and nearly 40% delay or avoid care altogether due to cost and complexity. These gaps drive missed diagnoses, avoidable hospitalizations, caregiver burnout, and billions in unnecessary spend. Solace exists to close that gap.

Solace is a patient-centric healthcare advocacy layer that sits alongside clinical care. The company connects patients and families with trained healthcare advocates who coordinate care across providers, manage logistics, and surface options that help patients move forward with confidence. By intervening between diagnosis and treatment where patients are most vulnerable, Solace shortens time-to-care, reduces friction, and improves outcomes at scale.

Solace’s model is also designed around the professionals delivering advocacy. By establishing a dedicated advocacy role with clear scope and strong technological support, Solace enables experienced nurses and care specialists to focus on judgment and patient guidance, building durable relationships over time and reinforcing the quality and consistency that better outcomes require.

With this funding, Solace will significantly expand its national network of more than 2,000 experienced advocates serving Medicare and Medicare Advantage members, while accelerating investment in its platform and clinical research. The company will also deepen partnerships with payers and providers to embed advocacy earlier in the care journey where outcomes are most at risk.

Solace was founded by CEO Jeremy Gurewitz and Chief Product Officer Sara Sargent…

Full release here, originally announced February 10th, 2026.

< + > Bonus Features – March 8, 2026 – 69% of physicians struggle to access recent records from outside providers, 76% of healthcare orgs have more AI pilot programs than they can scale, plus 31 more stories

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

News

• AI security firm Mindgard identified flaws in Doctronic, that chatbot that the state of Utah has allowed to prescribe medication renewals without human intervention. The company was able to exploit Doctronic’s prompts and make it do things such as triple the recommended dose of an opioid.

Studies

• More than 80% of healthcare CEOs expect AI to have a transformative or significant impact within two years, according to an EY survey.
• Research from Kyndryl found 76% of healthcare organizations report having more AI pilot programs than they can scale.
• A Rhapsody survey found 76% of healthcare leaders say interoperability is now a top strategic priority. Uneven execution helps to explain why, as 23% of organizations spend more than 20 hours per week troubleshooting integration issues. Additionally, Rhapsody announced Rhapsody Axon, an AI agent for data integration workflows.
• More than half of physicians (56%) struggle to find relevant data for patient visits, according to a report from athenahealth, and 69% report difficulty accessing recent medical history from outside providers.
• A Tebra survey found 69% of Americans have been surprised by the final cost of a routine medical service.
• Research from energy technology company Schneider Electric found digital retrofits such as power monitoring software can reduce total hospital energy consumption up to 18%.

Partnerships

• Healthcare-specific AI capabilities from Autonomize AI have been integrated with the ServiceNow AI Platform.
• Virtual cardiometabolic care company 9amHealth is partnering with Withings Health Solutions to make connected scales and blood pressure monitors available to members.
• Clinical policies from the American College of Emergency Physicians are now available in Vera Health, a clinical search engine.
• First Databank’s FDB Vela ePrescribing Network is now connected with Photon Health‘s digital prescription marketplace.
• Supplement recommendations from Fullscript are now available in ChiroTouch Cloud, an EHR and practice management platform for chiropractic care.
• Enterprise Access Management from Imprivata is now integrated with the Netskope One platform and its Zero Trust Engine.
• LexisNexis Risk Solutions expanded its integration with Epic to offer additional identity verification capabilities in the Epic Connection Hub.
• Pivot Point Consulting is partnership with Microsoft‘s Rural Health Resiliency Program to expand access to Microsoft Dragon Copilot. In addition, Optum is working with Microsoft to introduce provider-focused capabilities within the real-time claims system Optum Real.
• xCures announced a partnership with careMESH, which delivering EHR-integrated referral management and care coordination.

Products

• Workforce management platform Deputy launched Deputy Payroll, enabled by Paycor. It’s designed for managing shift-based workforces in healthcare and other verticals.
• Hyland unveiled Hyland Intelligent MedRecords and Hyland Intelligent Correspondence for Revenue Cycle.
• Inflo Health launched a cardiology care management suite to address care gaps across three of the most costly and prevalent cardiovascular conditions.
• Medbridge introduced an Occupational Health Pathway to address significant causes of work-related musculoskeletal issues.
• MEDHOST announces MEDHOSTone, which it describes as a next-generation EHR system.
• Quest Diagnostics announced Quest AI Companion to help patients understand and act on their lab test results.
• SEQSTER PDM launched 1-Click DataLake, a real world data platform for life sciences and healthcare

Implementations

• The Seattle area’s Overlake Medical Center & Clinics selected Hyro, an AI agent for patient access and contact center operations.
• Florida-based Starkey Ranch ER & Hospital chose Juno Health as its EHR partner to replace its current system.
• Boston-based Beth Israel Lahey Health selected Retarus cloud-based messaging and communication systems.

Company News

• Lumina Health Partners joined ECG Management Consultants and will integrate with ECG’s Payer Strategy and Contracting Division.
• Diagnostics company Novigenix announced the formal spin-out of Novigenix AI, a new precision medicine company.
• RecovryAI received an FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its Virtual Care Assistants; the company also emerged from stealth.
• Surescripts exceeded 30 billion transactions in 2025, the company said in its latest annual report.

People

• Contract research organization CellCarta appointed Dr. Ehab A. El-Gabry as Chief Medical Officer and Head of Companion Diagnostics.
• Senior care technology company LivTech appointed Ron Kozlin as Chief Financial Officer and Andrew Goode as VP of Development.
• Nationwide interoperability framework Carequality appointed Lee Barrett as Executive Director.

If you have news that you’d like us to consider for a future edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features, please submit them on this page. Please include any relevant links and let us know if news is under embargo. Note that submissions received after the close of business on Thursday may not be included in Bonus Features until the following week.

Safe travels to HIMSS 2026! Say hello to Brittany, Colin, David, and John. Allow me to live vicariously through you and snag a free coffee on the expo hall somewhere. (I have more than enough T-shirts.)