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.
Studies
- Nine in ten claim denials are reworked with at least some human review before resubmission, according to a recent Experian Health survey.
- Two-thirds of medical groups have a behavioral health specialist on staff, according to an AdvancedMD survey.
- A survey from McKesson Compile found 73% of biopharma teams drew false insights as a result of inconsistent or incomplete data.
Partnerships
- GE HealthCare’s Genesis portfolio is now available in Amazon Web Services Marketplace.
- MDisrupt is onboarding professional members of the American Heart Association to its expert marketplace.
- Breast and thyroid cancer detection software from Koios Medical is now integrated with RamSoft‘s radiology platform.
Products
- During Open@Epic, Epic highlighted data-sharing and wayfinding updates to MyChart as well as additional prior authorization APIs and expanded Epic Sandbox testing capabilities. In addition, Quest Diagnostics and Epic are collaborating in an effort to improve lab testing, experiences, quality and productivity.
- AlethianAI emerged from stealth, unveiling an agentic AI platform built to automate clinical workflows end-to-end.
- b.well Connected Health launched health.quality to help health plans meet upcoming CMS and NCQA deadlines for adopting digital quality measures.
- Cotiviti subsidiary Edifecs announced a version of its Population Payment Management platform powered by agentic AI.
- Fireflies.ai launched Fireflies for Healthcare, an AI assistant built for small to mid-sized healthcare organizations.
- Kohezion launched Karla, an optical character recognition assistant for organizations across healthcare and other compliance-driven industries.
- Personal emergency response systems provider LogicMark launched activity metrics for its Freedom Alert Max device.
- Net Health announced Limber Outcomes, an advanced analytics solution for rehab therapy.
- rater8 launched rater8 Visibility Engine to help healthcare organizations manage their online presence and reputation.
- Trek Health launched Contract Intelligence, which unites payer contracts and transparency in coverage (TiC) data.
- Truveta expanded its device data capabilities, linking unique device identifier (UDI) data with admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) and chargemaster data.
- UnityAI launched its advanced agentic AI platform for ambulatory settings such as radiology, dental, physical therapy, and behavioral health.
- WellSky launched WellSky CarePort Referral Intake, an evolution of its CarePort and Curaspan solutions.
- Wolters Kluwer Health announced UpToDate Expert AI, a generative AI-powered clinical decision support solution.
Implementations
- Fierce Healthcare reported the Department of Veterans Affairs is deploying Abridge and Knowtex, two ambient AI assistants, across its network.
- Yale New Haven Health selected Artisight as its smart hospital platform.
- Oklahoma’s managed care Medicaid network SoonerSelect chose Availity for provider credentialing intake.
- Primary care provider Marathon Health chose Medbridge to power its virtual musculoskeletal care program.
- Alabama’s Russellville Hospital expanded TruBridge implementation.
- Georgia-based SouthEastern Pathology chose Versant Diagnostics to expand access to digital anatomic pathology.
Company News
- Primary care network Aledade announced its ACOs saved Medicare more than $1 billion in 2024 through the MSSP.
- The AMA assigned Category III CPT codes to Caristo Diagnostics’ technology for AI-powered analysis of perivascular fat and cardiovascular risk.
- eClinical Solutions announced ENGAGE 2025, its annual client and partner conference, is October 29-30 in Philadelphia.
- Prescryptive secured HITRUST e1 certification for its pharmacy benefits engagement platform.
- The synava Group added IT-Choice, a provider of oncology documentation systems.
People
- Patient access platform UberDoc appointed Sean Kearney as CEO.
- Period and menstrual cycle tracker Clue named Dr. Charis Chambers as Chief Medical Officer.
- Digital OR platform maker Proximie made two executive appointments: Prem Batchu-Green as General Manager, Americas and Artem Tabalin as Vice President of Engineering.
- Clinical trial digital twin company Unlearn welcomed Dr. Robert Lenz as Strategic Advisor.
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