< + > Weekly Roundup – October 10, 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.

How Direct-to-Consumer Models Impact Continuity, Clinical Quality, and Provider Workflows. According to the Healthcare IT Today community, the biggest challenges are incorporating visits into longitudinal records and ensuring administrative workflows don’t get in the way. Read more…

Filling Gaps in Care and Provider Performance. Guillaume de Zwirek at Artera talked to John Lynn about AI agents capable of recognizing the type of patient request and navigating a provider’s systems to complete it while also covering care gaps on the same call. Read more…

Healthcare IT Leaders Share Their Perspectives From MEDITECH LIVE. Top-of-mind topics included surfacing patterns in clinical notes, streamlining documentation workflows, and making critical data accessible during downtime. Read more…

Taking on Health Data Standards, Quality, and AI. John sat down with Kirk Grothe and Dave Nelson at InterSystems to talk about why it’s important to define context and use cases for data, as that can help organizations “go from something stored to something actionable and intelligent.” Read more…

When the Bedside Meets Back Office. At the 2026 Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit, Colin Hung spoke to Bharat Sutariya about a phased rollout plan for the AI-native EHR that will limit rebuilds and learned about connecting the EHR to Oracle’s enterprise stack. Read more…

Delivering Clear Data for Patient Care. John connected with Kenny Wong at xCures, which is extracting insights from unstructured healthcare data to inform clinical decisions such as whether to screen patients for cancer risk. Read more…

Life Sciences Today Podcast: End-to-End, Real-Time Clinical Research Data. Danny Lieberman caught up with Dave Sunderhaft at nPhase AI, which is replacing fragmented data workflows with a unified, real-time platform. Read more…

CIO Podcast: AI Governance and Security. Joe Diver at Signature Healthcare joined John to discuss how CIOs should be addressing cybersecurity risk and challenges. Read more…

Healthcare AI Needs Context, Not Just More Data. Solution architect Puneet Arora noted that AI models excel at aggregating disparate documents such as claims response, payer notes, faxes, and staff interactions but still struggle to figure out how clinical observations relate to one another right now. Read more…

From Diagnosis to Discovery: How AI Is Transforming Modern Medicine. Clinical data scientist Mansi Goel highlighted AI’s diagnostic and decision support potential but added that decisions that are more about values than information should be left to physicians. Read more…

Independent Healthcare Practices Need a Practical Digital Front Door. If an app or website is confusing, incomplete or difficult to use, practices can lose patients before a clinician has an opportunity to help, said Mahmut Yuvanç at Sağlık Markam. It starts with readable page content that’s up to date. Read more…

Fragmented Data Costs Health Systems More Than They Realize. Most health systems cannot see what happens once patients leave their own network, noted Rob Grant at Kythera Labs. That means they don’t realize how much revenue walks out the door through referral leakage. Read more…

The Next AI Employee for a Medical Practice Should Own a Queue. Dr. Feynman Xu at MedArise said administrative queues have paths (normal exceptions, and practice-only) and it’s important for practices to optimize those paths and queues rather than implement automation on a large scale. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for October 7, 2026: Stanford University School of Medicine seeks a CIO. Read more…

Bonus Features for October 4, 2026: Though 75% of orgs are optimistic about AI, the same percentage also say AI and automation have increased identity-related risks. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Healthcare administrative automation vendor EliseAI raised $350 million.
• Back-office process automation company GenHealth.ai announced $16.5 million in Series A funding.
• AI-powered dementia therapy startup NewDays closed its seed round with $16 million in funding.
• Benefits administrator Alight acquired Abett, a healthcare and benefits data technology company.

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< + > NewDays Brings Its AI-Driven Dementia Care Platform to Nevada, Expands Seed Round to $16M

NewDays, a Seattle startup using a generative AI therapy to treat people with mild dementia, has raised additional funding and closed its seed round with $16 million. The funding was led by Madrona and General Catalyst.

The company also announced on Wednesday that it has expanded its services to Nevada, joining Washington, California, Florida, Texas, and New York. NewDays offers telehealth visits with human clinicians once or twice a month alongside unlimited conversations with an AI companion named Sunny.

“Our goal isn’t to add years — it’s to add quality to the years people have,” said CEO and Co-Founder Babak Parviz.

The startup is addressing a widespread issue: one in three Americans over 65 experiences cognitive decline, with 11% living with dementia and another 22% with mild cognitive impairment. Patients use Sunny to engage in conversational topics, memory exercises, and language or reasoning games designed to strengthen cognitive function.

“While these cognitive strategies are clinically proven, they have historically lacked broad accessibility,” Parviz said. “NewDays aims to make treatment scalable using AI and demonstrate measurable improvement.”

This past July at the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, the company presented research showing that NewDays patients with dementia performed better on cognitive tests than expected historical decline curves — translating to roughly 18 months of preserved cognitive function. The study was limited to 24 patients, half of whom have dementia and the other half experiencing other cognitive impairment.

“Generative AI under the guidance of an expert human clinician is what finally lets us deliver a medically proven intervention at that scale. That’s the whole thesis of the company,” Parviz said via email.

To further validate its platform, NewDays is currently running a randomized controlled trial with Kaiser Permanente in California.

Users can try Sunny for free. If they’re interested in the full program, there is a free 20-minute assessment to evaluate suitability. NewDays is covered by traditional Medicare and is working to secure in-network status with private insurers and Medicare Advantage plans. Participants in the program also have the option of paying $150 out-of-pocket for each clinical session.

Originally announced September 2nd, 2026

< + > GenHealth.ai Raises $16.5 Million Series A to Build AI Agents that Run the Medical Back Office

Flare Capital Partners Leads the Round, Bringing Total Funding to $30 Million; GenHealth’s AI Agents Complete Intake, Eligibility, Prior Authorization, Billing, and Denials Inside the Systems Providers Already Use, with Customers Getting Paid 30%+ More

GenHealth.ai, the healthcare AI company building AI agents that run the medical back office, today announced a $16.5 million Series A led by Flare Capital Partners. Existing investors Craft Ventures and Obvious Ventures participated, along with new investors Eniac Ventures, InHealth Ventures, Epsilon Health Investors, and ARTIS. The round brings GenHealth’s total funding to $30 million.

The United States spends about $1 trillion a year on healthcare administration, and most of that work is still done by people clicking through systems that do not talk to each other. Getting care approved and paid for means hundreds of actions across EHRs, payer portals, fax lines, and phone calls. Those bottlenecks delay treatment for patients and leave providers and suppliers chasing revenue they have already earned.

GenHealth’s AI agents connect those systems and carry the work through to completion. The agents run intake, eligibility verification, prior authorization, billing, denials, and custom workflows end to end, inside the EHR, payer portals, fax, and phone systems a practice already uses. A practice brings GenHealth on the way it would hire a person: staff shows the agents how they work, the practice creates user accounts for the AI, and the agents learn those exact workflows before going live. GenHealth’s US-based billing team handles exceptions, and staff stays in the loop for decisions that need judgment.

“The problem with automating healthcare administration was never just the AI. It’s that the AI is not connected to the systems providers already use, like the EHRs, plan portals, fax, and bank accounts,” said Ricky Sahu, Co-Founder and CEO at GenHealth.ai. “At GenHealth we built those connections ourselves and created rails for workflows to run on, with context from our own model trained on 140 million patients. The result is patients getting care faster and providers getting paid over 30% more, which is unheard of in RCM.”

GenHealth was founded in 2023 by Sahu and Ethan Siegel after Sahu’s decade building interoperability APIs for the largest US health plans at 1upHealth and CareJourney. The company’s agents are built on its Large Medical Model, a foundation model trained on the coded claims and clinical histories of more than 140 million patients.

“Provider organizations do not need another system of record. They need the work done,” said Vic Lanio, Partner at Flare Capital Partners. “GenHealth is not just agentified SaaS. They have agents working alongside humans, in the providers’ current systems, completing the work. That’s why we led this round.”

Customers include medical groups, durable medical equipment suppliers, and health plans. “We transitioned to GenHealth for full-service intake and billing and couldn’t be happier,” said Jack Bachman, Owner and CEO at Piedmont Medical Solutions. “By leveraging AI to make the process faster and easier, they’ve automated more work with better results than our previous outsourced team, which was five times their size. As a true partner that does not use offshore billing workers, they catch problems sooner and offer a level of transparency we never had before.”

GenHealth will use the funding to grow its engineering and go-to-market teams, extend its agents into additional workflows for provider groups and health plans, and continue improving the model underneath them. The company has grown to more than 20 employees since its seed round and is hiring across engineering, operations, and go-to-market. Open roles are listed at genhealth.ai/jobs.

About GenHealth.ai

GenHealth.ai builds AI agents that run the medical back office. Its agents complete intake, eligibility, prior authorization, billing, and denials end to end inside the EHRs, payer portals, fax lines, and phone systems that providers already use, with US-based billers and customer staff in the loop for exceptions. GenHealth’s agents are built on its Large Medical Model, trained on the coded claims and clinical histories of more than 140 million patients. The company is headquartered in Boston and works with medical groups, DME suppliers, and health plans. Learn more at genhealth.ai.

About Flare Capital Partners

Flare Capital Partners is a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on healthcare technology. The firm invests in early-stage companies transforming the business of healthcare and partners with leading health systems, health plans, and industry executives. Learn more at flarecapital.com.

Originally announced September 8th, 2026

< + > This Week’s Health IT Jobs – October 7, 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:

• Director, EHR Applications-Professional Billing – Beth Israel Lahey Health
• Chief Information Officer – Stanford University School of Medicine
• Vice President, Health Information and Technology – Texas Health Action
• Manager, Accreditation – Unified Quality – UNC Health Wayne
• System Director IT Project Management – Information Systems Applications – Stormont Vail Health
• Patient Care Coordinator – AEG Vision
• Sr. Director, Data & Agentic AI Experience, Orthopedics – Johnson & Johnson
• Epic Analyst – Nexus
• Clinical Programs Sr Analyst (IKC) – DaVita Kidney Care
• ROI Medical Records Specialist (Remote) – Sharecare
• Clinical Product Specialist, AI Development – Lyra Health
• Patient Services Representative Associate – Corewell Health
• Virtual Healthcare Education Specialist – Syneos Health Commercial Solutions
• HIM Tech I – Data Quality – Monroe Hospital
• Compliance & Privacy Specialist – Overlake Medical Center & Clinics
• eClinical Analyst – Entry Level – Medpace
• Associate Analyst, Provider Configuration – Molina Healthcare
• Director Enterprise Business Applications – Onvida Health
• Prior Authorization Specialist I – Patient Access Services – Boston Medical Center (BMC)
• Director of Population Health, Innovation, and Informatics (Administrator III Supervisor) – Maryland Department of Health

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.

< + > Alight Announces Acquisition of Abett to Accelerate Benefits Outcomes Through Data, Intelligence, and Action

Acquisition Enhances Alight’s Benefits Intelligence Capabilities to Help Employees Make More Informed Decisions and Enable Employers to Increase Engagement, Optimize Utilization, and Manage Benefits Ecosystem Performance

Alight, Inc., a leading benefits administration provider of health, wealth, and leave solutions, today announced its acquisition of Abett, a healthcare and benefits data technology company that acts as a data infrastructure layer for Fortune 500 employers and their benefits vendors.

Abett’s core product, the Data Engine, unifies benefits ecosystem data from medical, pharmacy, partners, point solution vendors, and additional data sources, allowing employers to integrate, engage, and better measure the impact of their employee benefit programs.

“Employers invest significantly in benefits to support their people, but those investments only create value when employees can find and use the right resources at the right time,” said Rohit Verma, Chief Executive Officer at Alight. “Our ability to turn data into guidance, guidance into action, and action into better outcomes for our clients and their people is even stronger with the addition of Abett. Abett will help employers better connect their benefits ecosystem, enable closed-loop navigation and extend data infrastructure capabilities for existing Alight clients and beyond.”

“Abett was built to help organizations put benefits data to work, securely connecting information across the ecosystem so they can understand where there is a need, take action, and measure what changed,” said Mike Hanlon, Founder and CEO at Abett. “Alight brings something incredibly powerful to that model: recurring opportunities to reach millions of people while they are actively making benefits decisions. Together, we have the opportunity to create better experiences and outcomes for employees while giving employers greater insight into the performance and value of the benefits programs they provide.”

By bringing those capabilities together with Alight Worklife and Alight’s recurring participant interactions through enrollment, benefits administration, customer care, navigation and ongoing service events, Alight is well-positioned to guide people during the moments that matter most as they make decisions about their health, finances, retirement, and benefits.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

About Alight Solutions

Alight is a leading benefits administration provider of health, wealth, leave and point solutions for many of the world’s largest organizations and over 30 million people. Through the administration of employee benefits, Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management, and navigation. Our Alight Worklife platform empowers employers to gain a deeper understanding of their workforce and engage them throughout life’s most important moments with personalized benefits management and data-driven insights, leading to increased employee wellbeing, engagement and productivity. Learn more at alight.com.

About Abett

Abett’s Data Engine is a healthcare and benefits data platform that enables data management at scale, reliably and securely, for leading employers, health solutions, and consultants. The Data Engine integrates data sources across the benefits ecosystem, enables tailored engagement to connect members with the right services, and measures outcomes of benefits programs. Learn more at abett.com.

Originally announced October 1st, 2026

< + > EliseAI Raises $350 Million at $4 Billion Valuation to Bring AI Deeper Into Housing and Healthcare Operations

The Financing Will Accelerate the Development and Delivery of New Products and Take EliseAI Deeper Into the Work Its Customers Do Every Day

EliseAI, the AI company automating complex housing and healthcare systems, today announced it has raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation. The financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Sapphire Ventures, and Navitas Capital.

EliseAI will use the capital to automate more of its customers’ operations and to grow its engineering, deployment, and sales teams across its North American offices. It plans to establish San Francisco as a second engineering hub alongside its New York headquarters.

Housing and healthcare are the two largest expenses for American households and among the industries least served by technology. Both run on thin margins, heavy regulation, and staff who have to spend much of their day on administrative work rather than on the people they serve. EliseAI was founded on the idea that fixing how these industries operate is the way to make them more accessible and affordable for the people who depend on them.

In housing, EliseAI builds AI for every stage of renting a home. Its technology helps housing providers automate workflows across leasing, resident services, maintenance, and renewals. These operators initially adopted the platform to automate leasing and resident communications, but as its capabilities have expanded, customers have asked EliseAI to take on a broader range of operational processes that drive staff productivity, resident satisfaction, and property performance.

Apollo, the agentic AI teammate EliseAI launched earlier this month, is the latest step in that direction. Capable of performing any task in the EliseAI platform, Apollo works within the systems property teams already use and carries tasks through to completion, changing how everyone from leasing agents to executives do their jobs. The company plans to extend this approach across housing operations, taking on problems the industry has struggled with for decades.

“The industries where AI matters most are still not the ones getting the most attention,” said Minna Song, Co-Founder and CEO at EliseAI. “Housing has enormous problems to solve, and we’ve grown by going deeper with our customers until we’ve solved the root causes. Every year our customers trust us with more of their operations, and that kind of trust is only earned by a company built to last. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners understand that, and they’re the partners we want for the long term.”

In June 2026, EliseAI announced that it had surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue, doubling revenue year over year for five consecutive years. The platform now powers one in six U.S. apartments, and more than 30 million Americans have interacted with EliseAI since its founding.

“EliseAI has spent years building inside the day-to-day complexity of housing,” said Sameer Dholakia, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, who joined EliseAI’s board of directors as part of the financing. “The company combines exceptional AI research and engineering with a detailed understanding of how properties operate. That depth has produced measurable results for their customers, leading to deep customer love.”

In healthcare, administrative work keeps clinical staff from patients as much as it keeps property staff from residents, and EliseAI is running the same playbook it built in housing. A dedicated healthcare business within EliseAI serves specialty physician groups, automating the full patient journey from the first inbound call through referrals, scheduling, insurance verification, chart prep, and follow-up. Leading healthcare organizations are seeing better patient experiences, clinical staff with more time to focus on care, and no patients falling through the cracks.

EliseAI is hiring across all functions in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Austin, and Toronto. Open positions are available at eliseai.com/careers.

About EliseAI

EliseAI is an AI company transforming housing and healthcare — the two largest household expenses in America — through deep workflow automation. Its AI agents integrate directly into operations, automating leasing, maintenance, renewals, billing, patient scheduling, intake, and front-desk workflows end to end. EliseAI powers one in six U.S. apartment units and crossed $200 million in ARR in 2026, marking five consecutive years of 100% year-over-year growth. The company is headquartered in New York with teams in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Austin, and Toronto. To learn more, visit eliseai.com/careers.

Originally announced September 29, 2026

< + > Bonus Features – October 4, 2026 – 75% of orgs are optimistic about AI, 75% of orgs also say AI and automation have increased identity-related risks, plus 29 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 that 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.

Stats

• A survey from Bain & Company and KLAS Research found 75% of providers are optimistic about AI, though a similar percentage fear that generative AI will make it just as costly or more costly to switch EHR systems.
• According to a Netwrix report, 75% of healthcare organizations said AI and automation have increased identity-related risk to sensitive data over the past two years.
• A Peterson Health Technology Institute survey found that 68% of employers and 55% of health plans are using performance-based contracts for digital health solutions.
• A Vivalink survey found 79% of adults with cardiac conditions would be very or somewhat likely to participate in home-based cardiac rehabilitation.

Partnerships

• Members of the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators can now access Manta Cares‘ AI safety training and oncology-specific AI companion, Hope AI.
• Weight Watchers and Google Health Enterprise are partnering to give eligible members access to Google Fitbit Air and premium features.
• Specialty care patient management platform Yosi Health integrated its scheduling and intake capabilities with Google Search and Maps.
• GoTo expanded its integration of GoTo Connect for Healthcare with athenaOne from athenahealth to support automated scheduling.
• Community care referral company Unite Us is partnering with Instacart to expand access to grocery delivery benefits.

Products

• AKASA launched its autonomous AI platform for the mid-revenue cycle for both inpatient medical coding and clinical documentation integrity.
• Clarest Health launched the next generation of Clarest Path, its medication intelligence platform.
• Elsevier launched ClinicalKey Nursing AI to support point of care decision-making and professional growth for nurses.
• Ergonomic healthcare workspace company Ergotron introduced four new models to its CareFit Combo portfolio.
• Gluware announced Gluware IoMT Exposure Management, which automates vulnerability remediation for medical devices.
• Wearable robotics company Humotech unveiled its Mobile Clinic to bring prosthetics to healthcare organizations and the community.
• Healthcare reputation management company rater8 expanded its rater8 Visibility Engine to include social media management tools.
• SimplePractice announced enhanced insurance solutions for independent mental health practitioners.

Implementations

• Digital mental health care Mentavi Health implemented EverCommerce’s EverHealth Scribe within the DrChrono EHR.
• Virtual PT provider LainaHealth selected Lantern to help patients complete preoperative and postoperative assessments via text links.
• University of Michigan Health-West expanded its deployment of Canopy Protect wearable devices for staff.

Company News

• Ceribell received FDA clearance for its technology that reads electroencephalography (EEG) readouts of brain activity at the bedside.
• Data and analytics company Definitive Healthcare joined the Network Advertising Initiative.
• Advance care planning documents now available through HEALTHeLINK, Western New York’s HIE.
• Pro Kpo AI launched; the company’s products automate schedule management for home care and long-term care providers.
• Workflow automation company UiPath is participating in NCQA’s AI Learning Collaborative for Prior Authorization.
• The University of Vermont received a $38 million R&D contract from ARPA-H, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, to develop digital twins to help clinicians personalize treatment for critically ill patients.

People

• National medical group Sound Physicians appointed Dr. Sergio Zanotti as CEO, Critical Care.
• Value-based kidney care company Evergreen Nephrology appointed Brian Palo as Chief Financial Officer.
• Value-based kidney care company Strive Health announced three executive appointments: Susan Ray as Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Sarah Berry as Chief Network & Engagement Officer, and Dan Heslin as Chief Growth Officer.
• Cardiovascular disease diagnostics company Elucid named Mark Miller as Chief Revenue Officer.
• CRISP Shared Services named David Hale as General Counsel at CSS and CRISP, the state designated HIE and health data utility for Maryland.

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