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.
The Key to Saving Time in Healthcare? Humanoid Robots. John Lynn interviewed Andrea Thomaz at Diligent Robotics, which learned early on that organizations prefer robots that transport items around the hospital as opposed to keeping stock rooms full. Read more…
Facilitating Payer-Provider Interoperability to Improve Care Coordination. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community what this entails, and expert answers included open data standards, near real-time data access, and targeted patient experiences. Read more…
Innovations Supporting the Transition from Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Payments. Examining patient outcomes, automating administrative tasks, predictive modeling, and supporting care navigation are just some of the suggestions we received from the Healthcare IT Today community about how to make this happen. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Intermountain and Civica Rx. This week, John took the microphone and talked to Carter Dredge at Intermountain Health Institute about why Civica Rx is different than traditional life sciences companies and how the partnership is playing out. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Making the Epic Honor Roll. Michael Mainiero at Catholic Health joined John to explain what means to be awarded Epic’s Honor Roll Good Maintenance Grant and what other CIOs can learn by participating in the program. Read more…
Helicopters Shouldn’t Be a Backup Plan for Patient Care. Outbound transfers correlate with higher costs, longer lengths of stay, and worse outcomes. Acute specialty telemedicine, virtual nursing, and AI scribes can eliminate the need for referrals and close these care gaps, said Dr. Chris Gallagher at Access TeleCare. Read more…
TEFCA Enables Interoperability; Now Let’s Make the Data Speak. Data availability alone doesn’t improve care, according to Nate MacLeitch at QuickBlox. AI-powered chatbots, triage tools, and clinical assistants can all help translate shared data into clear, actionable information. Read more…
Shaping the Future of EHR Modernization at University Hospitals. AMCs need EHRs that can support clinical care, research, and training workflows, as well as compliance with privacy and grant-funding requirements. Orgs modernizing their systems would be wise to turn to automation, said Ben Baldi at Tricentis. Read more…
Rethinking Patient Engagement for the Digital Age. Jared Mauskopf at Medical Web Experts and John Deutsch at Bridge described the role of empathy in designing digital health tools to help clinicians listen, explain, and help. Read more…
Smartphones and AI Can Revolutionize Healthcare. While remote monitoring is limited by the cost of equipment and the logistics of getting it into patients’ homes, embedded sensors paid with analytics can power RPM at scale, according to Eric Rock at Percipio Health. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for July 30, 2025: Multiple roles in privacy, compliance, and information management. Read more…
Bonus Features for July 27, 2025: Only 40% of generative AI strategies align with business goals, plus USCDI v6 makes its debut. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Abacus Group and Medicus IT merged and launched an IT Managed Services Provider (MSP) for the financial services and healthcare industries.
- Life sciences analytics company Sorcero acquired Axiom Health, a real-world data platform.
- AI-powered 3D ultrasound vendor PIUR IMAGING closed a €5.6M growth capital funding round.
- Samsung Electronics acquired Xealth, a platform that combines digital health tools and care programs.
- EHR and workforce automation vendor VitalHub acquired Novari Health, maker of patient flow software.
- Agilio Software completed the acquisition of Blue Stream Academy, provider of healthcare e-learning services.
- Operations software maker symplr acquired AMN Healthcare’s Smart Square Scheduling solution.
- Consulting firm Converge Health launched with a focus on behavioral health, substance use disorder, and SDoH data.
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