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.
Oracle Health Is Betting Big on AI, Supply Chain, and Collaboration. From Orlando, Colin Hung reported on the company’s strategy of embedding AI in its EHR while leaning into its established suite of enterprise platforms across ERP, HR, and finance. Read more…
Staffing, Outsourcing, and the Digital Workforce. John Lynn connected with Ray Lowe at AltaMed and Bill Grana at HCTec to discuss how to juggle in-house, contract, and service partner staff – a task made easier following an IT staff audit. They also address why IT teams don’t always have the right labor mix. Read more…
The Governance Factor: Putting Healthcare’s Back-Office Data to Work. In an interview with Chris Arey from RPI Tech Connect, John covered how to leverage data governance to improve patient outcomes, particularly when it comes to non-clinical data sources. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Data Cleaning and Standardization. Danny Lieberman talked to Viraj Narayanan at Cornerstone AI about maintaining human oversight while accelerating data cleansing processes from months to days. Read more…
Healthcare Interoperability Barriers. Check out this roundup of healthcare interoperability experts as they explore the main barriers to achieving true health data sharing and how they think healthcare organizations can overcome those barriers. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: The Digital Front Door. John, Colin, and Brittany Quemby got together to unpack the digital patient experience based on Brittany’s trip to the ED and family doctor and John’s take on Epic’s announcements from its annual User Group Meeting. Read more…
Securing Healthcare’ Expanding Attack Surface. Amid the rapid rise of mobility, healthcare must treat endpoint security as the new frontline of patient safety, noted DJ Oreb at DMI. That means encryption, access control, and centralized endpoint management. Read more…
Protect Your Organization From Ransomware as a Service. As attacks get much more frequent and sophisticated, Thomas Ritter at Ritter Gallagher emphasized the importance of framing cybersecurity in the context of patient care, revenue, and regulation. Read more…
A Path to Practice Optimization and Revenue Growth. Poorly optimized EHR workflows are linked to clinician burnout, inefficiency, and frustration. The answer, according to Pat Williams at iScribeHealth, means embedding documentation into EHR workflows. Read more…
The Power of Trust-Driven Digital Medtech. The shift to home-based care needs a new way of thinking to build patient trust, according to Sharad Patel and Radhika Bogahapitiya at PA Consulting. Privacy, data governance, cybersecurity, and user centricity are the keys to this approach. Read more…
Secure Communication With HIPAA-Compliant Faxing. This piece outlined how end-to-end encryption makes digital faxes HIPAA compliant. Better document management and EHR integrations are a plus, too. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for September 17, 2025: Boston-area Community Care Cooperative (C3) is looking for a Chief Medical Information Officer. Read more…
Bonus Features for September 14, 2025: One-third of patients find incorrect information in provider directories, while 39% of patients avoid seeking care if it means finding a new doctor. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- CitiusTech acquired Health Data Movers, a healthcare technology services firm.
- CentralReach acquired SpectrumAi and AI.Measures, providers of tech-enabled and outcomes-based care for the autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities field.
- Front-desk and call center operations automation vendor EliseAI secured $250 million in Series E funding.
- Provider credentialing technology company Medallion raised $43 million in new funding.
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