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
- Clinicians waste an average of 88 minutes each day on administrative tasks, according to a report from symplr.
- A Verizon Business report found remote patient monitoring is the leading IoT use case in healthcare, having been deployed by 56% of respondents.
- Data from Documo found 88% of healthcare practitioners say fax-related delays impact patient care, in large part because 52% of faxes require staff intervention and manual processing.
- A Globant report found 73% of pharma companies are piloting or deploying agentic AI in commercial and medical functions. What’s more, 85% of pharma workflows include tasks that could be automated.
- Only 17% of hiring leaders believe bedside nursing roles are vulnerable to AI-related job displacement, according to a UbiSim survey.
- Provider operations have accounted for 44% of overall health tech investment in 2025, according to a report from Silicon Valley Bank.
Partnerships
- AccessHope launched a clinical trial support service for oncology, powered by technology from Trial Library.
- IKS Health launch its new agentic AI platform, which is built on Google Cloud. In addition, Google Cloud announced partnerships with real-world evidence vendor Castor, virtual cancer care provider Color Health, and Hackensack Meridian Health.
- Infinitus is partnering with Outshift by Cisco to bring AI agents into healthcare operations workflows.
- VigiLanz Pharmacy Surveillance from Inovalon is now integrated with DoseMe‘s precision medication dosing product.
- UpToDate Connect from Wolters Kluwer Health is now integrated with Lumeris‘ Tom, which supports virtual primary care.
- Penguin Ai and UPMC Enterprises are partnering to build AI models.
- Healthcare workforce platform ShiftMed expanded its integration with Uber Health.
Products
- Amazon One Medical introduced Pay-per-visit healthcare for kids 2 to 11, with message-based visits starting at $29 and video consultations cost $49
- Canary Speech launched Canary Ambient Continuous Monitoring, offering aggression detection and ambient voice analysis for healthcare organizations.
- Everlywell launched Eva, which generates personalized health insights from biomarker data.
- Lapsi Health launched Keikku 2.0, an FDA-cleared digital stethoscope.
- Microsoft introduced an ambient experience created for nursing workflows within Dragon Copilot, along with extensibility capabilities for third-party users. On a related note, Artisight extended Microsoft Dragon Copilot with the Artisight Smart Hospital Platform.
- Nabla launched Nabla Connect, an EHR-agnostic plug-and-play ambient AI module.
- Personify Health introduced PercyIQ, providing data analysis and decision support for users of its personalized health platform.
- Reveleer launched RADV Audit SaaS Solution to help Medicare Advantage plans with risk adjustment audits.
- Sightview announced Sightview Pay, a patient payment product for eye care providers.
- SonderMind unveiled the SonderMind AI Suite to provide support to patients in between therapy sessions.
- Surescripts introduced First-Fill Abandonment to offers insights about patient access to prescriptions when a medication goes unfilled.
- Teladoc Health will add workplace safety capabilities that analyze facial expressions to Clarity Monitoring Solution.
- TytoCare unveiled Smart Clinic Companion, which enables patients to conduct clinical-grade remote exams and primary care interactions.
Implementations
- Cleveland Clinic expanded its deployment of AKASA for clinical documentation integrity across all its U.S. locations.
- Wisconsin-based Sauk Prairie Healthcare implemented LiveData Insights in its surgery department.
- Massachusetts Health Connector chose Maximus to provide enrollment and premium billing services and launch a redesigned digital member portal.
- Ascension Health implemented Wellsheet system-wide for visit documentation and summarization.
People
- Pediatric mental health care provider Brightline named Kari O’Rourke as CEO, effective December 2. Current CEO, co-founder Naomi Allen, will become executive chair of the board of directors.
- Value-based kidney care company Strive Health appointed Michele Paige as its Chief Growth Officer.
- Precision medicine company ImpriMed appointed Valerie Goodwin-Adams as Chief Commercial Officer.
- Data management vendor Harmony Healthcare IT appointed Sharon Cook as Chief Revenue Officer.
- Management services organization Apex Health appointed Peter J. Kelly as President.
- At-home preventive screening provider Reperio Health named Jocelyne Wood as Senior Vice President of Provider and Health Plan Operations.
- Homecare management solution provider HHAeXchange made three executive appointments.
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