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.
AI Takes Center Stage at OntarioMD’s Digital Health Conference. Colin Hung noted that the conversation about AI has matured from hype to hard questions, particularly when it comes to optimization, governance, and guardrails. Read more…
A Look at Epic’s Approach to Interoperability. Rob Klootwyk at Epic and Dr. Matthew Eisenberg at Stanford Health Care sat down with John Lynn to talk about facilitating data sharing, ensuring patient privacy, leveraging automation, and connecting providers to TEFCA. Read more…
Growth and Innovation Take Center Stage at Charmalot 2025. Colin also ventured to the Bay Area for CharmHealth’s user conference. The company announced physician collaboration and real-world data research initiatives and highlighted its efforts to attract larger practices. Read more…
Unpacking This Year’s MEDITECH Live Keynotes. Reporting from the company’s user conference in Boston’s leafy suburbs, John learned about MEDITECH’s push to support intuitive care, deploy AI in a thoughtful way, and help providers cleanse their data. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Long-Term Patient Follow-Up. Danny Lieberman talked to Pamela Tenaerts at Medable about empowering patients to use their phones to report outcomes and do blood work and imaging in local clinics, making trials more convenient and less expensive. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Perspectives on AI. David Tucker joined John to shed some light on the best-of-breed vs. all-in-one approach to AI. They also discussed how to maintain patience with users – and boards – demanding AI tools. Read more…
Keeping Low-Code Platforms Safe in Healthcare IT. The low-code approach helps teams build digital assets quickly. Measures such as separated testing environments, access controls, and audit trails can keep data secure in a fast-paced setting, noted John Miniadis at Stackdrop. Read more…
How Real-World Data Drives Success in Active-Controlled Trials. These types of clinical trials compare a new therapy against the existing standard of care, rather than a placebo. As ACTs can lack safety data, insights from real-world data add context and contribute to clinical guidance, said Ashley Daigneau at Verana Health. Read more…
Building a Future-Proof Healthcare Network. Copper-based LANs need to be replaced every several years, which leads to service disruption. Optical LAN is less expensive to deploy, lasts longer, supports higher speeds, and comes with fewer failure points, according to Cemil Canturk at Nokia. Read more…
Automation Can Help Providers Keep Pace With Prior Auth Reform. As major players work to streamline prior authorization, providers need to modernize internal workflows or risk being left behind, said Grace Nam at Laserfiche. The first step: Finding and solving bottlenecks in manual data transfers. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for September 24, 2025: Novant Health is seeking an SVP and Chief Health Informatics Officer, to be based in North Carolina. Read more…
Bonus Features for September 21, 2025: 19% of cyberattacks cost healthcare orgs at least $200,000; meanwhile, only 49% of healthcare leaders think AI will solve their cost efficiency problems. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Sleep fitness company Eight Sleep secured $100 million in new funding.
- Medical records management automation startup Predoc raised $30 million in seed and Series A funding.
- Healthcare Risk monitoring platform ALIGNMT AI raised a $6.5M seed funding round.
- Private equity firm Advent International is acquiring PatientPoint, which delivers educational content and diagnostic tools at the point of care.
- Pharma commercialization vendor EVERSANA merged with Waltz Health, a drug pricing marketplace.
- Real-time location systems vendor Sonitor announced a strategic merger with Tagnos, a healthcare workflow and asset management software maker.
- Tempus AI acquired Paige, which specializes in digital pathology for cancer detection.
- HGM Limited subsidiary Healthcare Capital Holdings is acquiring Aidéo Technologies, maker of autonomous coding tools.
- mPulse acquired Clarity Software Solutions, which supports cross-channel engagement member communications.
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