< + > Weekly Roundup – September 12, 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.

Enabling Direct-to-Consumer Care Models. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community what needs to happen to get this done. Advice included moving the front end of care beyond the hospital’s four walls and taking steps to preserve trust as organizations adopt AI-driven tools to engage with patients. Read more…

Making Interoperability a Front-of-House Clinical Benefit. Colin Hung connected with Kirsty Maunder at CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre to talk about efforts to pre-populate forms before clinical visits and write back to information systems to save clinicians time and reduce errors. Read more…

Civitas 2026 Annual Conference Preview. John Lynn chatted with Civitas Networks for Health CEO Jolie Ritzo, Anne Santifer at Arkansas State Health Alliance for Records Exchange, and Dan Cranshaw at KC Health Collaborative. They expect rural health and HIE to lead the conversation. Read more…

Life Sciences Today Podcast: The Internet of Bodies is Coming. Danny Lieberman caught up with Rick Duchin at HabitCure, which is interpreting the body’s signals to help people understand what happening to them. Read more…

CIO Podcast: AI Tools and Behavioral Health. Patrick Williamson at Array Behavioral Care joined John to discuss what makes AI governance so crucial for behavioral health, especially when it comes to using PHI. Read more…

Restore the Human Connection Using AI-Enhanced EHR Workflows. Baha Zeidan at Azalea Health explained how AI takes the EHR’s evolution further by helping teams surface information, reduce repetitive tasks, and take action within those workflows. Read more…

How Confusing Bills Stop Patients From Paying. Casey Williams at RevSpring said patients receiving unclear statements many months after a visit are unpleasantly surprised. Not only does this reduce the likelihood of payment; it also harms the relationship with the provider organization. Read more…

What Healthcare Teams Get Wrong in AI Vendor BAAs. The BAA should be the beginning of operational oversight, not the end of procurement, according to Mat Steinlin at Aptible. Getting it right means knowing like who can access AI prompts and who can receive PHI. Read more…

What is Healthcare Data? Nat Osit tackled this critical question: What it represents, how organizations use it, why a shared understanding of healthcare workflows across business units is essential for extracting value from data, and how it applies to value-based care. Read more…

The Billion-Dollar Opportunity Hiding in Care Plans. Kevin Torf at T2 Group and EZCARE explained how to connect personalized product recommendations from doctors directly to existing fulfillment partners via patient portals – and capture unrealized revenue. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for September 9, 2026: Consultancy HCLTech is looking for a CTO. Read more…

Bonus Features for September 6, 2026: 59% of clinicians say TikTok is the top source of misinformation about GLP-1s; AMA names leader for new Center for Digital Health and AI. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Savista acquired ABW Medical, an ambulatory RCM company serving the non-acute healthcare market.
• Cureety acquired Reimagine Care, an AI-powered oncology care organization.
• Data platform WellStack acquired DeLorean AI, which specializes in predictive analytics, risk stratification, and decision support.
• Patient flow software maker LeanTaaS acquired Aidin, a care transition and referral platform.
• AI-driven drug discovery platform Forus announced $150 million in Series C financing.
• Arintra announced a $25 million Series B funding round; the company makes autonomous RCM coding tools.
• Agentic GRC and security platform HelmGuard announced a $7.3 million seed round.
• Clinical technology performance platform PartsSource announced a strategic investment from Memorial Hermann Health System.

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< + > HelmGuard Raises $7.3M Seed Round | Forus Raises $150M at a $3B Valuation

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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HelmGuard Raises $7.3M Seed Round to Replace Compliance Paperwork with AI Agents that Verify Risk Directly

HelmGuard, the agentic governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and security platform co-founded by a former Palantir executive, today announced a $7.3M seed round, co-led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline, with participation from FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital, and Entrepreneurs First. The company’s AI agents collect and assess risk signals directly from source systems, cutting assessment cycles from weeks to hours.

The funding will support continued expansion in the U.S. market, including a New York and San Francisco presence, hiring across engineering and go-to-market, and accelerated development of an agent assurance layer that evaluates AI agent behavior at runtime.

Firms in regulated sectors, such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, and industrials, spend billions of dollars annually compiling and reviewing documentation to assess and manage their security and compliance. The legacy platforms they use to assist them are document- and process-oriented, focused more on questionnaires, templated reports and checklist completion than operational decision-making. While other platforms now use AI to generate and process paperwork faster, they still can’t help users understand the relationship between a risk and a mitigating control, whether a vendor is safe to rely upon, or if an agent is behaving as it should.

HelmGuard takes a different approach by unifying fragmented risk, security, and compliance data into a single interconnected network drawing on unstructured data and documentation as well as direct integration with source systems. The platform then uses specialized AI agents to automate workflows such as third-party risk management, agent assurance and control gap assessments and synthesize the results into a single, firm-wide view. Transparent citations, reasoning traces and human-in-the-loop mechanisms provide a defensible basis on which teams can operate and report to internal and external stakeholders, auditors and regulators.

John Daley, Co-Founder and CEO at HelmGuard, who spent eight years as an executive at Palantir, said, “Most compliance platforms were built to document a process, not to reach a conclusion. Now they’re using AI to produce those documents faster, which doesn’t help anyone decide anything. Our agents go to the source to collect and assess risk signals directly, abstracting away the manual data collection and assessment work that burns thousands of hours annually. This funding lets us…

Full release here, originally announced September 9th, 2026.

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Forus Raises $150M at a $3B Valuation as Its AI Network Becomes How Medicine Reaches Patients

Forus Triples its Valuation Within Months of its Series B, in an Insider-Led Round Backed by Every Existing Investor, as it Scales Toward Putting its AI Platform in Every Doctor’s Office in the Country

Forus, the AI network accelerating medicine, today announced $150 million in Series C financing at a $3 billion valuation, tripling its valuation just months after announcing its Series B and bringing total funding to more than $300 million. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, an investor in Forus since its seed round. Every existing institutional investor is reinvesting, including Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Redpoint, BoxGroup, Pear VC, Avra, Human Capital, Neo, Vast Ventures, and SV Angel.

Forus is the AI network for medicine: the platform connecting doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to bring new science to the patients who need it.

Forus is national and supporting millions of people, now used by providers across all 50 states to treat patients in 85% of U.S. residential ZIP codes. More than a third of providers in the country have adopted the platform in the first launched specialty, with double-digit percentages of providers nationwide across multiple other specialties following suit. Forus will use the funding to expand to all specialties and care settings, extend what its AI agents can do across the entire path to treatment, and accelerate investment in its team.

“We are putting the Forus platform in every doctor’s office in the country, so every disease is treated with the best medicine science can offer,” said Sahir Jaggi, Founder and CEO at Forus…

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

< + > Enabling Direct-to-Consumer Care Models

A lot of the world today is geared towards self-service and convenience for consumers. Self-checkout lanes in grocery stores, the many food and grocery delivery options, streaming services, etc. It is very geared to let consumers pick what they want, when they want it, and often brings it to wherever they are. Healthcare is no exception to this.

We reached out to our wonderful Healthcare IT Today Community to ask — how are health IT platforms enabling direct-to-consumer care models such as virtual visits, digital front doors, and on-demand services? The following are their answers.

Jason Griffin, Managing Director of Digital Health Strategy and Cyber Security Practice at Nordic
Health IT platforms are making direct-to-consumer care possible by connecting what patients want—convenient, digital-first access—with the clinical and operational systems that healthcare organizations already rely on. Consumers expect healthcare interactions to feel as seamless as the digital experiences they encounter in banking, retail, and travel. Platforms today support virtual visits, self-scheduling, online registration, digital intake, mobile communications, and personalized outreach through a unified digital front door. The goal is to reduce friction and give patients more control over how and when they access care.

These are no longer standalone tools. The most successful organizations are integrating consumer-facing applications with EHRs, CRM platforms, analytics solutions, and operational systems so patients can move smoothly between digital and in-person care. When that foundation is in place, organizations can deliver more convenient experiences while maintaining continuity across the care journey.

Michael Dalton, Founder and CEO at Ovatient
Health IT platforms, broadly speaking, are enabling direct-to-consumer care by making it easier for patients to find, schedule, access, and engage with care outside of the traditional clinic-based channels. The engagement and insights that these platforms are utilizing are what I find most fascinating.

I think what is going unappreciated from traditional models is that patients, because of LLMs and wearables, have never had more insight into their health. Patients are empowered with data and the questions to pose either to their favorite AI tool or their provider. We’re seeing a broader health ecosystem built principally around medication access, behavioral support, wearable data, and ongoing engagement.

I think this has also been one of the reasons for the exponential growth in MyChart messages between patients and providers, as recently shared in JAMA. We’re not going back, and I don’t think this will slow down.

Ben Maisono, SVP Strategy at Tendo
Health technology solutions that are being adopted have a consumer-grade experience that masks the complexities of access in healthcare and makes it easier. Convenience is the ultimate attribute for consumers with on-demand mindsets. AI triage is helping patients get recommended high-quality providers in a step-by-step evaluation process. This is introducing more shopping behavior than in the past because information is curated and organized in digestible steps for consumers now. We are seeing these engagement experiences adopted heavily in the commercial plan space for members as well to access Centers of Excellence care models.

Kamya Elawadhi, Co-Founder and President at Doceree
The shift to direct-to-consumer care is not a distribution change — it is a reimagining of where healthcare begins. The platforms enabling this most effectively are not simply digitizing the waiting room. They are embedding clinical intelligence, affordability tools, and care navigation directly into the first moment a patient engages. The most effective digital front doors anticipate need, surface relevant information, and reduce friction before care is even initiated. When consumers can understand options, verify coverage, and access support in a single, seamless interaction, care initiation and continuation improve significantly. What makes these platforms different is building around the clinical journey, not bolting onto it.

Dr. Scott Schell, Chief Medical Officer at Cognizant
Health IT platforms make direct-to-consumer care possible by moving more of the front end of healthcare outside the four walls of the clinic. Scheduling, intake, eligibility checks, virtual visits, remote monitoring, payment, and follow-up can now occur through consumer-facing digital channels. The larger shift is that these platforms increasingly act as orchestration layers rather than point solutions.

Consumers expect healthcare to behave more like every other service they use: accessible, responsive, and available on demand. Delivering that experience requires connecting access, clinical workflows, revenue cycle, and payer interactions into a single operating model. The organizations succeeding in direct-to-consumer care are not necessarily the ones with the best app. They are the ones that can translate consumer demand into coordinated clinical and administrative action at scale.

Kei Ishii, MD, Medical Strategy & Clinical Insights at Ubie
In digital healthcare, much of the discussion focuses on convenience, accessibility, and efficiency. However, one of the most overlooked aspects is trust. Patients gain confidence not simply because they receive an answer, but because they feel understood. In clinical practice, trust is built when a physician explores the patient’s symptoms thoughtfully, considers multiple possibilities, and demonstrates a genuine effort to understand what the patient is experiencing. As AI becomes a patient’s first point of contact, the challenge is not only providing the right recommendation, but also creating that same sense of understanding. Preserving trust and reassurance will be just as important as improving access and efficiency.

So many great points to consider here! Huge thank you to everyone who took the time out of their day to submit a quote to us! And thank you to all of you for taking the time out of your day to read this article! We could not do this without all of your support.

How do you do think health IT platforms are enabling direct-to-consumer care models such as virtual visits, digital front doors, and on-demand services? Let us know over on social media, we’d love to hear from all of you!

< + > Savista Acquires ABW Medical | Cureety Acquires Reimagine Care

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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Savista Acquires ABW Medical, Expanding Ambulatory and Non-Acute Revenue Cycle Management Capabilities

Savista, a healthcare operations company with more than 35 years of revenue cycle management (RCM) experience, today announced the acquisition of ABW Medical, a trusted ambulatory RCM company serving the non-acute healthcare market. The acquisition expands Savista’s footprint into ambulatory and non-acute care segments while giving ABW Medical clients access to Savista’s broader capabilities, infrastructure, and operational scale.

ABW Medical serves an established base of clients, including federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), medical groups, managed service organizations and virtual care providers. ABW also holds preferred RCM partner status within the athenahealth ecosystem, a relationship that strengthens Savista’s position across the ambulatory market and adds further diversity to its EMR expertise.

“ABW Medical brings deep revenue cycle management expertise, a strong client base, and a delivery model that aligns well with how we operate,” said Jan Grimm, Chief Executive Officer at Savista. “This acquisition expands our capabilities and opens new opportunities to serve community and rural health organizations that often face distinct financial pressures. We look forward to deepening that work and helping these organizations achieve the financial sustainability they need to continue serving their communities.”

This acquisition marks a pivotal moment for Savista, strengthening its ability to deliver comprehensive, tailored revenue cycle management solutions to a broader spectrum of healthcare organizations. By addressing the unique needs of community and rural health providers, this expansion aligns seamlessly with Savista’s mission to enhance financial performance and operational efficiency across diverse healthcare settings. The timing is critical as regulatory demands and financial challenges are intensifying, making scalable solutions essential to driving sustainability and supporting long-term growth for clients.

“Joining Savista is an exciting next step for our team and our clients,” said John Bozin, Chief Executive Officer at ABW Medical…

Full release here, originally announced August 27th, 2026.

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Cureety Acquires Reimagine Care to Build the Future of Precision Oncology Care

Combination Brings Together Therapy-Specific Precision Monitoring and Clinical Intelligence, AI-Supported Patient Engagement, and Oncology-Specialized Care Teams to Extend More Personalized, Continuous, and Sustainable Cancer Care

Reimagine Care, an AI-powered oncology care organization, today announced that it has been acquired by Cureety, a precision oncology care company. The acquisition brings together Cureety’s therapy-specific monitoring and clinical intelligence with Reimagine Care’s AI-supported patient engagement and oncology-specialized care teams to support more personalized, continuous care beyond the clinic.

Together, Cureety and Reimagine Care form a profitable organization that supports more than 250 cancer centers and 100,000 patients across five countries, with a combined team of approximately 150 people.

The acquisition comes as cancer treatments are becoming increasingly personalized and complex, more care is moving outside the hospital, and oncology teams are supporting growing patient populations with limited clinical resources. Yet care delivery has not evolved at the same pace. The next generation of cancer therapies requires the next generation of cancer care. The combined organization aims to extend the reach of oncology teams beyond scheduled visits, helping them maintain greater visibility between encounters, prioritize patients who need attention, and deliver more personalized, continuous care.

“Cancer is a global challenge, and advances in treatment are creating many of the same opportunities and pressures for oncology teams regardless of where they practice,” said François-Guirec Champoiseau, Co-Founder and CEO at Cureety…

Full release here, originally announced September 2nd, 2026.

< + > This Week’s Health IT Jobs – September 9, 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 of Home Health – South County Health
• ROI Medical Records Specialist – MRO
• Director Information Services – IM Regional Ops – CHRISTUS Health
• VP, Technology Operations – Expion Health
• Behavioral Health Scheduler & Survey Liaison – Nemours Children’s Health
• EMR/EHR Implementation Specialist – Alignerr
• Clinical Application Specialist – Arcare
• Computational Health Informatics Data Manager I – Boston Children’s Hospital
• Deputy CIO, Care Technologies & Informatics – Information Solutions – MUSC Health
• Associate Consultant – Behavioral Health – Oracle
• Health Partner Engagement Specialist I – CareSource
• Manager, External & Scientific Communications – Flatiron Health
• Clinical Transformation Specialist – Revenue Cycle – Ascension
• Analyst-Health Information Management – Baptist Memorial Health Care
• Chief Technology Officer – HCLTech
• Community Health Worker (Childhood Onset Chronic Healthcare Needs) – Duke University
• VP, Practice Technology – OneOncology
• Biomedical Cybersecurity Specialist – Connected Medical Devices – MaxIT Consulting
• Health Information Analyst/HIM Operations – Hartford HealthCare
• Compliance & Privacy Manager – Corporate Compliance – NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

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.

< + > The Healthcare Infrastructure Working Behind the Scenes

One of the most interesting organizations in healthcare is Civitas Networks for Health.  This non-profit organization brings together some of the key organizations that provide the national infrastructure for health and health data.  One of their best venues to convene their community is at the upcoming Civitas 2026 Annual conference.

I recently sat down with Jolie Ritzo, CEO at Civitas Networks for Health, Anne Santifer, Executive Director at Arkansas State Health Alliance for Records Exchange, and Dan Cranshaw, Executive Director at KC Health Collaborative, to learn more about what’s happening in the Civitas community and get a preview of their annual conference.  One thing they shared was how often healthcare infrastructure serves an important purpose but goes unrecognized. This is by design.  For example, an HIE (Health Information Exchange) may make a patient’s information from multiple organizations available to a clinician at the point of care.  The clinician and patient often have no idea how the information from external organizations was made available to them, but having that data often improves care. Good infrastructure like an HIE quietly does this work in the background, often with little recognition.

Along with Civitas members’ role as critical infrastructure for healthcare, we talked with our panel of HIE and health collaborative experts about some of the hot topics in the community as a preview of what will be discussed at the upcoming Civitas Annual Conference.  One of the most important topics in healthcare in general is the cuts and changes to Medicaid.  These cuts are going to have a significant impact on most healthcare organizations, but that also presents an opportunity for HIEs and health collaboratives to assist provider organizations whose patients may need extra assistance and care.

While rural health issues are not a new focus area for the Civitas community, Ritzo, Santifer, and Cranshaw all mentioned that the RHTP (Rural Health Transformation Program) presents a really great opportunity for partners in the Civitas community to support states in improving rural health.  They are hopeful that the funds back rural providers and communities with innovative approaches to solving some of the big challenges they have faced for too long – access to quality care and services, legacy data systems, workforce shortages, the digital divide, to name a few.  Santifer mentioned that one of the things she’s most excited about at the Civitas Annual conference is hearing all of the different ways that states are approaching the rural health funds.  We’ve definitely seen that no two states are the same, and so a lot of great innovation funded by RHTP will be shared.This is a tremendous opportunity to hear what is working and, in some cases, what is not.

With all of the various healthcare interoperability regulations out there, Kill the Clipboard, CMS Tech Ecosystem, TEFCA/QHINs, etc., I also asked the panel about the positive impact these regulations are having and some of the ways they could be improved.  The panel suggested that there’s a lot of nuance to these regulations.  For example, it may seem like a great idea to Kill the Clipboard, but many patients in some areas still really like the clipboard.  We have to take these local nuances into account.  That said, it is an exciting time for innovation and moving policy into practice. Examples of this will be discussed throughout the annual conference.

Finally, we asked the panel to share what they think will be some of the top conversations at the Civitas Annual Conference.  Check out our interview with these experts to learn more about the latest developments in health data, health information exchange (HIE), and cross-sector approaches to improve community health.

Learn more about Civitas: https://civitasforhealth.org/

Learn more about Arkansas State Health Alliance for Records Exchange: https://sharearkansas.com/

Learn more about KC Health Collaborative: https://www.kchealthcollaborative.org/

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< + > Memorial Hermann Health System Deepens Partnership with Strategic Investment in PartsSource | Arintra Raises $25M

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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Memorial Hermann Health System Deepens Partnership with Strategic Investment in PartsSource

Investment Will Help Strengthen Healthcare Technology Infrastructure and Clinical Capacity Across More than 1,600 Leading Hospitals Through the PartsSource Platform

PartsSource, the leading performance platform for clinical technology, today announced a strategic investment from Memorial Hermann Health System, a non-profit, award-winning health system committed to creating healthier communities, now and for generations to come.

PartsSource provides device-owners and operators an enterprise technology platform that unifies parts, service, contracts, asset intelligence, and workforce capacity into a single operating system for healthcare technology management. Powered by 25 years of longitudinal data, millions of service events, billions of data points, and today servicing over 15,000 clinical sites across the U.S., the platform delivers real-time visibility, predictive signals, and prescriptive action, enabling health systems to move from reactive repair to proactive management—unlocking clinical capacity from assets already in place.

“As healthcare organizations look to lower cost of service, unlock clinical capacity, and find new revenue within their existing walls, a unified, evidence-based, and data-driven approach to asset management becomes essential,” says Philip Settimi, MD, MSE, President and CEO at PartsSource. “Memorial Hermann joins 150 other health systems who are advancing a scalable model that transforms how mission-critical assets are managed…

Full release here, originally announced August 25th, 2026.

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Arintra Raises $25M to Pioneer Revenue Assurance for America’s Health Systems

As the First and Only Autonomous Coding Platform Across 23+ Specialties and Every Health System Care Setting, Arintra is Setting a New Standard for Revenue Cycle Management and Reinventing how Leading Health Systems like UC Davis Health, Mercyhealth, Meritus Health, Rochester Regional Health, Reid Health, Mercy Medical Center, and More get Paid Accurately, Promptly, and in Full

Arintra, the first and only enterprise AI platform for revenue assurance in healthcare, today announced a $25 million Series B funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to $51 million. The round is led by Define Ventures, with participation from existing investors including Peak XV Partners, Yale New Haven Health (YNHH) Center for Health Care Innovation, Endeavor Health Ventures, Y Combinator, Counterpart Ventures, Ten13, and Spider Capital. Endeavor Health, based in Chicagoland, also was an early adopter of the technology, and participated in both the Series A and B rounds.

U.S. healthcare is a $5 trillion system, yet most health systems and provider groups struggle to get paid by payers for the care they deliver — predominantly due to siloed processes that are riddled with inaccuracy, costing health systems, providers, and patients every day. As a longtime function within health system operations, traditional revenue cycle management has consisted of individual point solutions and a fragmented workflow that leaves revenue on the table. Arintra is pioneering revenue assurance, an agentic AI approach built to close the gap between care delivered and revenue earned. The company’s platform has become a core piece of the enterprise health system’s infrastructure, bringing leading health systems the bottom-line impact they deserve.

Driving $5 Billion in Annual Claim Value for Leading Health Systems, Large Provider Groups, and Academic Medical Centers

Arintra has deployed its platform across health systems and large provider groups, partnering directly with them to increase compliant revenue capture and lower cost to collect, reduce claim denials and processing lags, and improve coding accuracy. One of those partners is Rochester Regional Health. “At Rochester Regional Health, our vision extends beyond automating a single specialty — we’re looking at how AI can fundamentally transform coding across the enterprise,” said Karen Linder, Senior Director of Health Information Management & Coding at Rochester Regional Health…

Full release here, originally announced August 26th, 2026.