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.
Reducing Denials and Improving the Success Rate of Claim Reimbursements. We asked the Healthcare IT Today what it takes to make this happen. Answers included breaking down silos, addressing the root causes of problems as soon as possible, and streamlining operations with automation. (More on that one below.) Read more…
Automation’s Role in Streamlining RCM Workflows and Reducing Administrative Burdens. According to the Healthcare IT Today community, the key benefits of RCM automation include fewer billing errors, faster payments, reduced leakage, and more accurate coding. Read more…
The Significance of Platforms in Healthcare Innovation. John Lynn unpacked the challenges of implementing one-off AI and digital health solutions and outlined how to find the right platform to bring those tools together. Read more…
How to Reduce Behavioral Health Care Planning Documentation. Megan Isham at Tennessee’s Mental Health Cooperative talked to john about using eClinicalWorks to make behavioral health care planning more collaborative and a lot faster – trimming the time from 112 minutes to just 9. Read more…
Teaming Up With Rivals to Address Interoperability. Colin Hung was busy at the eHealth25 conference in Toronto. First, he joined Allie Anderson and Robert Molloy at MEDITECH to discuss how the company exchanges patient summaries with other EHR vendors while stripping out duplications in medications, labs, and allergies. Read more…
Can Digital Attachment Solve the Crisis of Unattached Patients? Next, Colin chatted with Mark Casselman at Akinox. The company is using AI assessments to help providers care for patients without PCPs – or lengthy records in the EHR. Read more…
Why Is Suki Betting Big on Canada? Meanwhile, Jallel Harrati at AI assistant Suki also joined Colin to explain how the vendor is tailoring workflows to local needs and embedding into existing systems to support deployment across Canada, where providers have varying needs and priorities. Read more…
How Ontario Is Tackling Trust in AI Scribes and Vendor Risk. Finally, Colin talked to Robert Fox at OntarioMD about creating a vendor of record program for AI scribes to ensure providers implement a vetted solution tailored to their needs and the needs of patients. Read more…
Insights and Reflections From the AHIP Payer Conference. John connected with attendees to discuss the key trends at this year’s event. They included using AI to improve the member experience, streamline communication, and automate prior authorization. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Oncology Trials and Clinical Protocols. Danny Liberman connected with Flatiron Health’s Alex Deyle to discuss how oncology EHRs help activate sites for patient enrollment and streamline data collection during clinical trials. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Radiology Image Sharing and AI-Enabled Patient Action. John caught up with Rishi Nayyar at PocketHealth to learn about the impact of ensuring patients having access to their images and know how to act on the results. Read more…
Advancing HIPAA-Compliant Hosting Options. Kelly Goolsby at Liquid Web detailed the vendor’s approach to meeting HIPAA privacy and security requirements. This includes uptime guarantees, scalable infrastructure, transparent pricing, and proactive monitoring. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for June 25, 2025: Multiple roles in information management as well as health unit coordination. Read more…
Bonus Features for June 22, 2025: Use of health plan mobile apps up nearly 22% since last year, only 40% of consumers willing to share health data with AI vendors. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Operational intelligence startup ArcheHealth secured a $6.7 million seed round.
- Wolters Kluwer Health acquired IntelliLearn, which provides of online courses to nursing schools in Australia and the U.S.
- Continuous risk monitoring platform MDaudit acquired Streamline Health, a provider financial performance management tool, as part of a definitive merger agreement.
- Private equity firm Coalesce Capital acquired DAS Health, a healthcare IT and business solutions provider.
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