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.
Interoperability Perspectives from the Civitas Annual Conference. John Lynn made the trip to Anaheim and heard from the industry’s leading interop experts about uncovering insights in patient data, processing unstructured data, and achieving data liquidity – all with the help of AI, of course. Read more…
Moving From Paper Checks to Automated Payments. Bill Clausen at ECHO and Stephen Thames at Mississippi’s Magnolia Regional Health Center talked to John about implementing an automated payment service integrated with MEDITECH to improve security, reduce overhead, and make payments in minutes. Read more…
The Benefits of Outsourcing and AI in RCM. John connected with Heather Boone at Orlando Heart and Vascular Institute, which has seen a 30% increase in reimbursements and 21-day improvement in payment processing since choosing to have eClinicalWorks manage their RCM workflows. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Turning a Personal Struggle Into a Global Solution. Wessam Sonbol watched his mother struggle to access a cancer trial. He told Danny Lieberman he founded Delve Health to brings trials into patients’ homes with wearables, AI agents, and multilingual support. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal. John and Colin hung weighed in on the impact of $100,000 H1B visas and MIT’s pessimistic reports on AI, plus Project Nova and RevSpring acquiring Kyruus Health. Read more…
Driving Better Caregiver Connections With Smart Scheduling. Manual scheduling for home care is slow, fragmented, and full of blind spots. Adding an AI layer atop EMR software helps match the right caregiver to the right patient based on availability, skills, and location, noted Gayatri Thakkar at Inferenz. Read more…
Keeping Security and Privacy at the Heart of Innovation. Security is a shard commitment among stakeholders throughout the hospital, according to Jeffrey Barth at NexGen Healthcare. Getting it right requires a mix of strong policies, training programs, and awareness campaigns. Read more…
Smart AI Strategies for Organizations Under Pressure. Alex Flores and Burnie Legette at Intel outlined three steps for implementing AI in small, secure, but highly impactful ways: Mapping workflows, leveraging interface engines, and adopting federated data practices. Read more…
Beyond the Hype: Governing AI Responsibly. Though more than 70% of healthcare organizations are exploring or implementing AI, many face governance gaps associated with HIPAA compliance, cybersecurity risk, and patient trust, said Makesh Bharadwaj at Sutherland Global. Read more…
AI’s Role in Timely Patient Discharges. Delayed discharges cause bottlenecks in the ED and the OR, frustrate staff, and lead to patient harm. Operational command centers are well positioned to coordinate patient flow, noted Mike Coen at TeleTracking Technologies. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for October 15, 2025: Trinity Health is looking for a VP and CMIO. Read more…
Bonus Features for October 12, 2025: 29% of healthcare employees feel pressure to adopt AI, while 72% of orgs hit with cyberattacks face patient care disruptions. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Value-based kidney care provider Strive Health raises $550 million in Series D funding.
- Eye and systemic disease detection vendor Optain Health closed a $26 million oversubscribed Series A round.
- Hello Patient announced a $22.5 million Series A financing; the company provides conversational AI for patient communications.
- Virtual chronic condition care vendor Goodpath raised $18 million in Series A funding.
- Musculoskeletal care navigation company TailorCare acquired the patient monitoring platform developed by Stabl.
- Medical search platform OpenEvidence acquired Amaro, an AI-native advertising company.
- Analytics and real-world data vendor Truven by Merative acquired Springbuk, a health intelligence platform for employer-sponsored healthcare.
- GE HealthCare is acquiring icometrix, a provider of brain imaging analysis for neurological disorders.
- Health and wealth adviser Nayya is acquiring Northstar, a financial wellness company.
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