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, Trust, Policy, and Much More at The Sequoia Project and Carequality Annual Meeting. John Lynn had a busy couple days in Nashville. Among the highlights: Getting the right data to the right person at the right time is hard, AI might make standards a lot less important, and the CMS Aligned Networks still have kinks to work out. Read more…
Key Insights and Perspectives from eHealth Exchange’s Annual Meeting. There was quite a lot for John to unpack here, too. Important discussion points included whether TEFCA has been oversold, why inertia is the enemy of scalability, and how AI removes the mundane to allow for real innovation. Read more…
How AI and Data Sharing Impact Radiology and Imaging. Better provider collaboration, automated triage, integrated decision support, and improved efficiency are just some of the positive impacts the Healthcare IT Today community shared. Read more…
Overcoming Common Challenges With Integrating Data From Disparate Sources. Accurate data capture, consistent (and consistently formatted) data, collaboration between IT and data management, and governance guardrails are all critical to data integration, the Healthcare IT Today community told us. Read more…
Accessing Archived Legacy Data While Saving Costs and Reducing Risk. John sat down with Shawn Fichter at Legacy Data Access at AHIMA to discuss the value of exposing and connecting just the data each user needs to do their job, which helps to restrict the surface exposed to potential attackers. Read more…
Healthcare Cloud Hosting and Innovation at Rackspace. Tim Lankes, the company’s VP of Healthcare, joined John to discuss helping organizations find the best combination of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud systems, especially for their Epic installs. Read more…
How an Echocardiogram Went From 12 Clicks to Zero With Wellsheet. Dr. Max Solano at Ascension and Wellsheet CEO Craig Limoli talked to Colin Hung about using AI capabilities to build cleaner workflows and achieve measurable efficiency – like an ECG that just appears. Read more…
Oracle’s Clinical AI Agent Clicked Quickly for Hudson Physicians. Dr. Ryan McFarland at the Wisconsin-based specialty group told Colin initial skepticism about AI agents dissolved quickly once clinicians saw the tool in real encounters. Read more…
From Clicks to Care: Inside Greenway’s AI-Powered Future. At its user group meeting, Greenway outlined a future where automated prior authorization, chart prep, and payer data exchange become routine. See what else Colin heard from the company’s executive team. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Bioconvergence at The Israel Innovation Authority. Danny Lieberman connected with Shai Melcer to learn about how the agency is standing up to cybersecurity and defense competition in Israel, plus tech competition form around the world. Read more…
Why Data Defensiveness Kills Value-Based Care Before it Starts. Jonathan Bush, now at Zus Health, outlined why data silos, liability concerns, and costly overhead contribute to information hoarding (intentionally or otherwise) – and explained how these are mundane problems that can be easily solved. Read more…
Archiving Legacy Data With Enterprise Content Management. It’s estimated 50% of health systems will have to archive 7 or more disparate systems in the next 3 years. ECM offers a streamlined, structured process of extracting, converting, and ingesting data, said Jeff Lusby at Quest Diagnostics. Read more…
How Healthcare Organizations Can Progress Amid Federal Funding Cuts. Kaitlyn Nelson at Stoltenberg Consulting provided tips that included integrating EHR and RCM systems (to ensure more accurate coding) and reprioritizing health IT initiatives (to emphasize efficiency and ROI). Read more…
The Hidden Security Risk of Technical Debt. Technical debt grows from well-intentioned decisions made under pressure. Because it poses strategic and security vulnerabilities, organizations can ill afford to delay modernization any further, said Jason Ward at Collette Health. Read more…
Virtual Musculoskeletal Care Went Mainstream, But Real Access Is Still Missing. Today, 99% of physical therapy is still accessed through local physician referrals. Computer vision and machine learning offer a rare chance to reimagine PT access, noted Ryan Eder at LainaHealth. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for November 19, 2025: The Georgia Department of Public Health seeks a CIO. Read more…
Bonus Features for November 16, 2025: Half of clinicians say scheduling software doesn’t consider patient acuity; AHA offers AI guidance for cardiovascular care. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- ŌURA raised over $900M in funding, valuing the company at approximately $11 billion.
- Benefits management platform DUOS announced a $130 million strategic growth equity investment.
- Remote care company Brook.ai secured $28 million in Series B funding.
- Pharmacy operations technology maker Foundation Health closed a $20 million Series A funding round.
- Home care delivery platform Zingage announced $12.5 million in seed funding.
- Community health enablement platform Pear Suite secured $7.6 million in Series A funding.
- Precision neurology platform Kneu Health closed a $5.6 million oversubscribed seed round.
- Early cancer detection company Previvor Edge raised $3.3 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round.
- Workforce management platform HealthStream acquired Virsys12, a provider data management suite.
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