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 Wants to Be Healthcare’s Partner; Will the Industry Let It? Colin Hung interviewed Seema Verma at the 2025 Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit. The Oracle Health EVP and GM said Oracle sees its open ecosystem as a competitive advantage. Verma also said real improvement in healthcare depends on tying ERP, HR, and supply chain tools to the EHR. Read more…
How a Community Hospital Benefits From a Consolidated EHR. Kim Landers at Illinois-based Morris Hospital and Healthcare Centers talked to John Lynn about the benefits of unifying ambulatory and inpatient EHRs, particularly in support of population health and SDoH efforts. Read more…
The Pearl, the Pitch, and the Panels: A HLTH 2025 Preview. Check out this preview of the upcoming HLTH USA conference happening just over a week from now in Las Vegas. Let us know what you’re most looking forward to at the HLTH conference this year. Read more…
AI Scribes Are More Than Time Saved; Mental Space Is Also a Benefit. Colin chatted with Dr. Scott Eshowsky at Beacon Health System about reducing clinician’s cognitive load thanks to AI agents – especially when they’re integrated with the EHR. Read more…
The Future of Data Sharing. We had the Healthcare IT Today community gaze into a crystal ball. Seamless data sharing at scale and better infrastructure are in the future, many of you said – but only if the industry moves away from obsolete protocols. Read more…
Data-Sharing Strategies Everyone Should be Adopting. Real-time data utilization, adoption of interoperability standards, and alignment with real-world needs are just some of the suggestions from the Healthcare IT Today community. Read more…
Proactively Addressing Common Cybersecurity Threats. We also asked for input on this all-important topic. Healthcare IT Today readers recommended focusing on the supply chain, reducing complexity, addressing legacy apps and devices, and emphasizing penetration testing. Read more…
Building an Automated Scribe for Physical Therapy From the Ground Up. John connected with Christina Rama at Fownd, which created an ambient voice recording system to document evaluations, assessments, and plans for physical therapy and its unique visits types, workflows, and terminology. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Making Drug Development More Efficient. Danny Lieberman sat down with Rajesh Krishna at Certara, which is using modeling, simulation, and AI to help drugmakers companies design better trials, predict outcomes, and reduce risk. Read more…
An Expert’s Guide to Designing a National Provider Directory. Scott Williams and David Hoffert at Epic wrote the provider directory concept paper the company shared with CMS. The paper emphasized that a directory needs the right data structures, the right contributors, and the right processes. Read more…
How to Build a Cohesive Patient Experience. Healthcare’s myriad physical and digital touchpoints, along with the need to balance security, patient trust, and ease of use, can make a seamless experience tricky. Minimizing onboarding, adopting MFA, and enabling access control should help, said Rishi Bhargava at Descope. Read more…
Modern Risk Adjustment: Building a Framework for Resilience and Precision. Collaboration, automation, data normalization, and partnership are critical for accurate risk adjustment in an increasingly complex regulatory environment, according to Katie Sender at Cotiviti. Read more…
The Key to Making Agentic AI Work. AI can only make recommendations based on the information it has, noted Tomas Gorny at Nextiva. That’s why some organizations are turning to Unified Patient Experience Management platforms to aggregate and update records in real time. Read more…
Bridging the Health IT Skills Gap With Affordable, Scalable Online Learning. Dani Foust at Pluralsight described how subscription-based online learning meets healthcare tech workers where they are, which is critical as they juggle project deadlines, on-call responsibilities, and unpredictable job demands. Read more…
Using Generative AI to Transform Behavioral Health. Demand for autism therapy is surging far beyond current capacity. Ryan Cox at Acclaim Autism explained how the provider modernized IT infrastructure to improve workflow processes, augment patient care, and reduce staff burnout. Read more…
Why Patients Call Instead of Using Your $2M Healthcare Portal. This is a fascinating look at the patient portal and why so many patients don’t use the portal and hit your call center instead. Check out their practical tips for making the portal experience better so patients actually use it. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for October 8, 2025: Roles in privacy analysis, cybersecurity, and financial services. Read more…
Bonus Features for October 5, 2025: 85% of healthcare professionals use their EHR during “pajama time;” meanwhile, 55% of virtual care leaders say improving patient engagement is their top priority. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Ascend Learning acquired Laudio, maker of workforce management tools for front-line healthcare leaders.
- Cohere Health acquired ZignaAI and launched its new Payment Integrity suite.
- Administrative workflow automation vendor Penguin Ai secured a $25 million Series A funding round.
- Kanematsu made an investment in Intuition Robotics; the companies will collaborate on Japanese expansion of ElliQ, Intuition’s AI companion robot.
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