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.
HIMSS25: Key Insights & Top Takeaways. The Healthcare IT Today team was out in full force in Las Vegas. We recorded many videos with members of our community and other event attendees to get expert analysis on topics such as AI, cybersecurity, and interoperability. Brittany Quemby assembled and posted roundups for each day we attended the event.
- Day 1 at HIMSS25: How to make data usable and truly address clinicians’ needs. Read more…
- Day 2 at HIMSS25: The benefits or real-time location services and the challenges of data integration. Read more…
- Day 3 at HIMSS25: The importance of patient engagement, clinician productivity, and system integration. Read more…
- Day 4 at HIMSS25: TOPIC 1, TOPIC 2, AND TOPIC 3. Read more…
Patient Access Isn’t DEI, and It Deserves Continued Attention. Colin Hung interviewed Adam Mariano at LexisNexis Risk Solutions about why access is about more than lack of insurance coverage or the cost of care, and why it’s important to keep lists up to date so patients know a provider can actually see them. Read more…
The Benefits of Pairing an AI Scribe With Human Scribes. Dr. Benjamin Crocker and Andrew Dickmeyer at IKS Health shared why ambient scribe solutions that combine generative AI and human review improve accuracy and allow for greater functionality. Read more…
Improving Patient Matching With AI. Rhapsody recently added machine learning to its Enterprise Master Patient Index. The company’s Drew Ivan talked to John Lynn about how this streamlines the patient matching process, especially for large batches of enrollees. Read more…
Improving RCM With AI. Navaneeth Nair at Infinx joined John to talk about how the company is building a hierarchy of AI agents to not just automate tasks but process them, such as determining which payer is responsible for which claim and then passing the claim to the right agent. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Identifying Today’s True Healthcare Disruptors. Are Google, Amazon, and Apple still disrupting the market? Have Salesforce and Oracle joined them? And what the heck happened to retail health? Find out what John and Colin have to say. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for May 5, 2025: Many roles in informatics and information management. Read more…
Bonus Features, HIMSS25 Edition, for March 5, 2025: News from Epic, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and many others. Read more…
Bonus Features for March 2, 2025: 61% of docs worry AI will increase prior auth denial rates, while more than 60% of orgs using imperfect tools to manage unstructured data. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Generative AI platform Abridge announced a $250 million Series D investment.
- RCM automation vendor Candid Health raised $52.5 million in Series C funding.
- Lindus Health raised $55 million in Series B funding; the company executes clinical trials for life science organizations.
- Medical device company Amplitude Vascular Systems completed a $36 million Series B financing round.
- AI tool for cancer risk identification C the Signs announced $8 million in funding.
- Inpatient virtual nursing and telehealth vendor Vitalchat secured $6 million in Series A funding.
- Risk adjustment platform Keebler Health raised $6 million in seed funding.
- Behavioral health analytics platform NeuroFlow acquired Quartet Health, a provider of behavioral health services.
- Physical and mental VR therapy vendor XRHealth acquired RealizedCare, a digital therapeutic for managing chronic pain and mental health.
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