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.
Perspectives on Autonomous Coding, SDoH, Interoperability, AI, and Much More at AHIMA 2025. John Lynn talked to healthcare information management experts about achieving the last mile of interoperability, maintaining the human touch, and monitoring AI maturity. Read more…
Balancing Data Accessibility, Patient Privacy, and Compliance. Since that’s a tall order, we asked the Healthcare IT Today community for advice. Suggestions included role-based access, multifactor authentication, and proactive data governance. Read more…
Bringing Retail Supply Chain Lessons to Healthcare. Colin Hung caught up with Kristen Miles at Oracle; she described how efficient supply chain management in retail (as well as logistics and manufacturing) can help healthcare – especially since those industries have also done it at a large scale. Read more…
Time-Saving Features That Help Clinicians Be More Efficient. John interviewed Josh Baker at Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio about mobile device support, rules engines, and AI tools within eClinicalWorks that take administrative burdens off the shoulders of clinical and support staff. Read more…
When It Comes to AI in Healthcare, Trust Beats Speed. Dr. Randy Thompson at Montana’s Billings Clinic sat down with Colin to discuss how to frame AI so patients and clinicians alike will trust it, even if it means taking the time to iron out an AI governance strategy. Read more…
Clinician Surveys, Workflow Improvements Drive Improved Satisfaction and Efficiency. Eric Gasser at Ohio’s Wooster Community Hospital Health System told John about achieving a 20% improvement in nurses’ satisfaction by surveying them about what documentation burdens they’d like to see removed. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Clean and Structured Text. Tim O’Connell at emtelligent talked to Danny Lieberman about how to help healthcare clean (and manage) massive volume of unstructured text. Read more…
With Fewer Resources, Clinical Trials Need Interoperability More Than Ever. Jiang Li at Vivalink outlined the many technology tools necessary to support decentralized and hybrid clinical trials – and why trials suffers when systems operate in isolation. Read more…
AI Agents As 24/7 Behavioral Health Companions. To deploy AI responsibly in behavioral health, think of it as a co-pilot, said Shalini Balakrishnan at blueBriX. The technology can handle routine tasks and flag key information so providers have more space to connect with patients. Read more…
Panic Isn’t a Strategy for CMS Audits. Treating compliance as an episodic event and not a continuous discipline exposes organizations to escalating risk, according to Mohammed Vaid at Simplify Healthcare. That’s why organizations need to prioritize a culture of continuous audit readiness. Read more…
From Surgery to Recovery: Winning Under TEAM With Real-Time Insights. Next year, CMS will implement the mandatory Transforming Episode Accountability Model. Efficient collaboration between acute and post-acute care teams will help hospitals succeed under TEAM, said Phyllis Wojtusik at Real Time Medical Systems. Read more…
How to Address Phishing in Fast-Paced Healthcare Organizations. Want to achieve a 9x drop in healthcare workers clicking on simulated phishing emails? Focus on monthly training in bite-sized chunks that emphasizes praise and includes senior leadership, said William Crank at Fortified Health Security. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for October 22, 2025: Two health systems in New York City are looking for a CMIO. Read more…
Bonus Features, HLTH Edition for October 22, 2025: Partnership news from InterSystems, Google, and Noom, plus 27 product announcements and 18 company launches. Read more…
Bonus Features for October 19, 2025: Clinicians waste 88 minutes each day on admin tasks, plus 52% of faxes to health systems require staff intervention and manual processing. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Bambu Ventures acquired Lemonaid Health, a telehealth and prescription delivery provider, through the creation of a Special Purpose Vehicle.
- Innovaccer acquired Story Health, which builds AI agents to provide continuous specialist care.
- Virtual and in-home care provider Imagine Pediatrics raised $67 million in Series B funding.
- Neurological care company Sevaro Health closed a $39 million oversubscribed Series B funding round.
- Digital mental health company Cerebral raised $25 million in capital.
- Patient billing vendor Inbox Health secured $20 million in growth equity funding and debt.
- Generative AI care provider Doctronic raised $20 million in Series A funding.
- Provider network management vendor Assured raised $6 million in funding.
- Patient care transitions vendor MedSetGo closed $2.4 million oversubscribed seed round.
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