Tuesday, March 17, 2026

< + > AI Can Bring a Golden Era for Medicine

Ruben Amarasingham, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Smarter Technologies, is often asked by medical students whether they’re in the right profession. He responds that we may be entering a “golden era” for practicing medicine, thanks to AI.

In the age of generative AI, it can follow clinical sessions and produce doctors’ notes; AI can also automate much of the frustrating and time-consuming tasks related to revenue cycle management. But now AI can do much more by combining work on notes (the frontend) and RCM (the backend); this is the area where Smarter Technologies’s  SmarterNotes operates.

The current medical system is well-known for imposing administrative tasks on doctors, who come out of medical school unprepared for this reality. “There’s no med class called DRG 101,” Amarasingham jokes, referring to Diagnostic-Related Groups, a complicated measurement used by Medicare to calculate payments.

He points out that while easing the staff’s administrative burdens is important, in addition—given the costs of investing in AI—providers are asking, “But can you improve revenues as well?” The advent of what he calls “multi-faceted AI systems” takes AI to that new level.

For instance, the diagnostic and billing engines in AI can suggest a diagnostic code while the front-end ambient scribe part is writing the note. Insights from the front-end can also refine the back-end.

Amarasingham also discusses how different organizations will implement AI: some doing incrementally, one function at a time, and others in a more integrated fashion.

Check out our interview with Dr. Ruben Amarasingham from Smarter Technologies to learn more about the impact of AI for good on medicine.

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< + > Virtual Technologies Group Announces Acquisition of Vector Tech Group | Interra Health, Created Through the Merger of DoseSpot and Arrive Health

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.


Virtual Technologies Group Announces Acquisition of Vector Tech Group

Virtual Technologies Group (VTG), a leading IT, security, and cloud services firm backed by Jacmel Partners, announced today that it has acquired Vector Tech Group, a regional provider of customized and integrated IT solutions to businesses and other organizations. Vector Tech will continue to serve its current roster of customers and employees as a subsidiary of VTG.

The acquisition of Vector Tech, which is supported by strategic capital from Jacmel, expands VTG’s footprint in the Midwest and enhances its existing array of IT services with a complementary, high-growth suite of services. The combined business will provide tailored end-to-end solutions and IT infrastructure services to businesses and organizations in the manufacturing, education, healthcare, government, financial, professional services, non-profit, and automotive sectors.

“Beyond the clear strategic and complementary fit with VTG’s platform, Vector Tech’s dedicated employee base and exceptional customer service make it an invaluable addition to our IT service offerings and organization,” said Greg Yarrington, Chief Operating Officer at VTG. “This partnership expands our product portfolio and enhances our ability to serve our clients with greater capabilities and expertise.”

“Today’s announcement represents another exciting step forward in VTG’s evolution,” said Nick Jean-Baptiste, CEO at Jacmel. “We recognized the strength of Vector Tech’s growth trajectory and the potential for even further expansion across its platforms, including for its infrastructure and cybersecurity offerings and its scalable K-12 customer deployment model.”

“This is a fantastic opportunity for Vector Tech, and we’re very excited for what’s ahead as we partner with Jacmel and VTG,” said William Loiacano, President and CEO at Vector Tech…

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


Interra Health, Created Through the Merger of DoseSpot and Arrive Health, Ushers in a New Era of Transparency for Patients and Providers

The Company is the First to Unify the Journey from Medical and Pharmacy Benefit to Prescription Fulfillment for Confident Provider Decisions and Informed Patient Action

Interra Health, formed today by the merger of DoseSpot and Arrive Health, delivers the first patient-centric prescribing experience, providing trusted eligibility, price transparency, and pharmacy information directly to providers and patients. The company combines Arrive’s coverage and pricing network with DoseSpot’s ePrescribing and engagement capabilities to support prescribing decisions and help patients access the right medication at the lowest cost, where it works best for them.

The Bain Capital Tech Opportunities team is leading the investment supporting the merger and will serve as the majority owner of Interra Health. PSG, the former majority owner of DoseSpot, will be a minority owner. Additional minority investors include Providence and UPMC Enterprises. TripleTree served as exclusive financial advisor to DoseSpot and PSG, and Piper Sandler served as exclusive financial advisor to Arrive Health in this transaction.

Josh Weiner, former CEO at DoseSpot, will serve as CEO and a board member of the new combined company, while Kyle Kiser, former CEO at Arrive Health, will serve as a board member and senior advisor.

Trusted Data Between Providers and Patients

In a fragmented healthcare system, confident prescribing decisions depend on providers and patients having access to the same trusted, real-time information. Too often, coverage restrictions, prior authorization requirements, and higher out-of-pocket costs surface only after a prescription is sent. Interra Health addresses this by delivering real-time coverage, pricing, and authorization insights across the prescribing journey, before the prescription is sent, creating a more connected experience for providers and patients.

Arrive Health brings a market-leading network providing real-time coverage and affordability insights from payers and pharmacies to the point of care, while DoseSpot delivers trusted prescribing and engagement tools used by providers and patients every day…

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



Monday, March 16, 2026

< + > Deep Dive Into Healthcare AI – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 188

For the 188th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, sponsored by Swaay.Health, we are doing a deep dive into healthcare AI! We kick this episode off with a debate on whether or not hallucinations will continue to happen and if they’ll prevent AI from being implemented/accepted. Then we theorize about whether healthcare will ever trust AI agents to work without supervision. Next, we take a look at the data healthcare AI is trained on and discuss if we think the quality and diversity will ever be a major concern. Lastly, we conclude this episode by trying to decide if we are not talking about the cost of AI enough.

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Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode:

  • Will hallucinations continue to (a) happen, and (b) be something that stops AI from being implemented/accepted?
  • Will healthcare ever trust AI agents to work without supervision?
  • Will the quality and diversity of data that healthcare AI is trained on ever be a major concern?
  • Are we not talking enough about the cost of AI?

Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast.

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< + > TPG Partners with Findhelp to Expand Access | UnityAI Raises $8.5M

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.


TPG Partners with Findhelp to Expand Access to Essential Services for Underserved Populations

TPG, a leading global alternative investment management firm, today announced that The Rise Funds, the multi-sector strategy of its global impact investing platform, has made an investment of approximately $250 million in Findhelp, the nation’s largest social care technology platform. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 2010, Findhelp connects tens of millions of people each year to more than 900,000 verified community program locations across the United States. The company serves over 800 customers in all 50 states, including major health systems, health plans, government agencies, and self-insured employers. Its platform helps organizations identify social needs, connect individuals to trusted local services, manage complex social care workflows, and measure impact through integrated analytics. Findhelp also supports benefits eligibility verification and enrollment, enabling individuals to secure coverage such as Medicare and Medicaid, all through a single, unified experience.

“Findhelp was built to be the infrastructure that connects people to essential services at scale,” said Erine Gray, Founder and CEO at Findhelp. “TPG and The Rise Funds bring deep experience in building durable, category‑defining platforms, and their investment allows us to accelerate growth, expand our national network, and invest more aggressively in our technology. This partnership positions Findhelp to meet rising demand from government agencies, health plans, employers, and community organizations as social care becomes a core part of how support is delivered across the country.”

Each month, Findhelp facilitates hundreds of thousands of referrals to community-based services, helping organizations address critical needs such as food, housing, utility assistance, and transportation for families, veterans, and vulnerable populations. By streamlining care coordination and leveraging its proprietary network, Findhelp helps bridge gaps and strengthen critical infrastructure for America’s safety net.

Tom Verghese, Business Unit Partner and Healthcare Lead for The Rise Funds, added, “Findhelp has built a market-leading platform that is increasingly essential to how healthcare and public sector organizations operate. Their technology addresses one of the most persistent gaps in the safety net by making social care accessible, measurable, and scalable…

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


UnityAI Raises $8.5M to Expand an Autonomous AI Workforce for Healthcare Operations

UnityAI is Already Operating at a Nationwide Scale, Working with Large Specialty Care Groups and Supporting More than 300,000 Patient Interactions Per Month

UnityAI, an agentic AI company building an autonomous workforce for healthcare operations, today announced the close of an $8.5 million Series A funding round, bringing total capital raised to $15 million. The round was led by Third Prime, with participation from Nashville Capital Network, Whistler Capital Partners, Max Ventures, Company Ventures, and other existing investors.

“What holds healthcare back rarely happens inside the exam room, but instead is everything that determines whether a patient gets there at all,” said UnityAI Co-Founder and CEO, Edmund Jackson. “When the right patient meets the right clinician at the right time, consistently and reliably, care works the way it’s meant to. That’s the coordination our agents deliver – continuously optimizing how patients and providers come together.”

Today, achieving this level of coordination depends on manual, fragmented workflows spread across multiple teams. UnityAI is building an agentic workforce that unifies these processes into a single, continuously operating system, dramatically improving both scalability and effectiveness. In practice, roughly half of this effort centers on patient operations – scheduling and rescheduling, confirmations, follow-ups, and referrals. The other half focuses on staffing operations – capacity optimization, shift management, PTO, and coverage. All of it is orchestrated together in one unified framework, so patient demand and provider supply are continuously aligned.

“Crossing the ‘last mile’ – actually engaging a person through voice AI to complete a task – has shifted us from simply optimizing workflows to operating them autonomously,” said Jackson.

“UnityAI keeps work moving in environments that are unpredictable, high-volume, and constantly changing,” said Wes Barton, General Partner at Third Prime…

Full release here, originally announced March 4th, 2026.



Sunday, March 15, 2026

< + > Bonus Features – March 15, 2026 – Amazon and Microsoft launch healthcare AI agents, plus 23 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.

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Saturday, March 14, 2026

< + > Weekly Roundup – March 14, 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.

HIMSS 2026 Insights from the Show Floor. The Healthcare IT Today team was in Las Vegas in full force. In fact, we recorded so many video interviews with leading experts in the industry that we couldn’t post them on one page.

  • Day 1 noted innovations in cardiac care, networking hardware, and cybersecurity, along with reducing technical debt.
  • Day 2 addressed payments, cost transparency, AI accuracy, and the launch of Amazon Connect Health.
  • Day 3 covered data cleansing, governance, agentic AI, and cybersecurity (again).
  • Day 4 shared insights on health data quality, robotics, and scaling AI.

Freeing Health Care Providers to Focus on Strategy. Scott Gildea and Gene Scheurer at Optimum Healthcare IT joined John Lynn to discuss why the company created a Managed Services Center of Excellence that can take on routine IT operations and maintenance for overworked hospital IT teams. Read more…

Addressing the Hidden Complexity of Hospital Meals. Workflows in nutrition and dining service are some of the most complex and intense in the hospital, Colin Hung learned at the recent Illumia user conference. Standard recipes, a single platform, and mobile ordering for staff with short lunch breaks can all help. Read more…

Life Sciences Today Podcast: Global Medical Data Imaging Infrastructure. Dany Lieberman connected with Asta Ratkeviciene at MedSyntra, which is ethically curating millions of imaging studies to inform AI model development. Read more…

CIO Podcast: Improving IT Efficiency. Former CIO Todd Richardson joined John to unpack why IT often feels like a financial burden and how organizations can work to change that. Read more…

Radiology Is the Launchpad for Healthcare’s Agentic AI Era. Radiology sits at a rare intersection of acute operational pain and high technology readiness, which makes it the ideal service line for testing cutting-edge agentic AI solutions, said Rishi Nayyar at PocketHealth. Read more…

Why Device-Centric Security Is Risky in Healthcare. Mobile security strategies haven’t kept pace with BYOD trends, and mobile is now the preferred attack vector, said Matt Stern, CISO at Hypori. The best remedies are removing data from devices and decoupling security from the endpoint. Read more…

Moving AI in Home Care From Potential to Impactful. In home care, AI fails to scale in the absence of operational frameworks and clear governance. Treating AI as an operational capability can help agencies overcome these obstacles, said Sushrut Naik at Machinify. Read more…

Why Patient Verification Starts with Data Quality. Close to 10% of patient records in American healthcare are duplicates, according to Bud Walker at Melissa. The best way to cut down on the downstream impact of duplicate records is to stop errors at intake. Read more…

How Positive Distractions Reshape the Pediatric Hospital Experience. Anxiety is closely linked to lengthy hospital stays for children. Immersive gaming is one way to help create moments of normalcy and even build bonds with other patients, noted Brandon Kuzara at Dimensional Innovations. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for March 11, 2026: Baptist Health System is looking for a System Vice President of IT Infrastructure. Read more…

Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition, for March 11, 2026: Epic says 85% of customers use Epic AI news, plus multiple Microsoft Dragon Copilot integrations and lots more announcements. Read more…

Bonus Features for 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. Read more…

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Friday, March 13, 2026

< + > HIMSS26 Day 4: Insights from the Show Floor

HIMSS is one of the largest gatherings in health IT, bringing together more than 30,000 healthcare leaders, CIOs, executives, and innovators to explore the future of healthcare technology.

Throughout the conference, we’re talking with top companies and industry leaders about the biggest trends shaping healthcare today including AI, cybersecurity, workforce challenges, leadership, and major product announcements from the show floor.

Check out some of our short video interviews from Day 4 of #HIMSS26:

Solmaz Makouee, Vice President of Sales – Americas at Userful

Jason Prestinario, CEO at Particle Health

Joanna Milarski, SolarWinds SLED & Healthcare Director at SolarWinds

Chris Kenyon, Director of Clinical Solutions at Availity

Milton Chen, CEO at VSee

Ron Rerko, Director of Healthcare at Onix

Dennis Sherba, VP of Operations & Staff at eHealth Exchange

Angel Bozard, MSN, RN, CENP, CAVRN, CNO at VirtuAlly

Stephanie Conserette, Head of Software & AI Portfolio Strategy, Global Imaging at GE HealthCare

Victoria Smith, Healthcare Lead, Global at Jamf

Lyle McMillin, AVP, Healthcare Product Management at Hyland

Aamir Syed, President at BRSi

Mike Stover, Director of Product Management at Concord Technologies

Karla Mills, VP Interop & Value-Based Care at Surescripts

John Kravitz, VP, Head of Healthcare Services at Workday

Matt Faustman, CEO at Honey Health

HT Snowday, Senior Director at Midmark RTLS

Abhishek Sharma , CEO/Founder at Clinicus

Mike Hoxter, Chief Technology Officer at Lightbeam Health Solutions

Jeremy Harper, CRIO at Owl Health

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< + > AI Can Bring a Golden Era for Medicine

Ruben Amarasingham, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Smarter Technologies , is often asked by medical students whether they’re in the right prof...