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.
Making AI and NLP Affordable and Trustworthy. John Lynn connected with Dr. Tim O’Connell, emtelligent CEO, to learn about extracting details about patient risk from unstructured data – something the company achieved by building its own AI models. Read more…
Seeking Truth in Billing – and Fewer Denials – With LLM-Powered RCM. John heard from Abhinay Vyas and Lisa Rosenkoetter at RapidClaims about the value of uncovering the complexities in care and providing evidence to back up a claim. Read more…
Leveraging Unstructured Data to Improve Care and Reimbursement. PointClickCare CRO Brian Drozdowicz described searching free-form clinical documentation to support transitions from acute care to post-acute care, which also can help with both liability and revenue generation. Read more…
Ensuring a Physician Advisory Program Improves Both Care and ROI. Dr. Adriane Martin at Enjoin and Shameka Hooks at North Carolina’s WakeMed shared best practices for creating an advisory program that represents patients well while addressing metrics that lead to financial success. Read more…
Reducing FQHC No-Shows With Predictive Modeling. Wilson Santos at Los Angeles-based T.H.E. Clinic spoke with John about using eClinicalWorks healow to identify appointments most likely to be missed, and then prompting front desk staff to contact patients in advance. Read more…
Tight Collaboration Drives Continuous Improvement in Data Management. Cathy Murphy at Nemours Children’s Health and Andrew Loeffler at Vyne Medical noted the benefits of automated document handling, particularly for high-volume workflows such as patient registration, labs, and referrals. Read more…
From Ambient Voice Documentation to Care Partnership. Dr. Thomas Kelly at Heidi told John why ambient documentation sees higher adoption rates when it helps clinicians do their jobs through patient outreach, decision support, and more. Read more…
Making RCM Part of the Clinical Interview. Dr. Mike Gao and Dr. Ruben Amarasingham at Smarter Technologies sat down with John and described how billing and clinical documentation can complement each other, giving doctors more context about the patient they’re seeing. Read more…
Health System Call Centers as Potential Revenue Generators. John talked to Israel Krush at Hyro about using AI agents to automate patient workflows and assess why patents make calls, all in an effort to take a more proactive approach to engagement and outreach. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Enabling Precision Oncology. Danny Lieberman chatted with Dr. James Hamrick at Caris Life Sciences, which has created a comprehensive, multimodal database of combined molecular and clinical outcomes data. Read more…
Why ACOG Has Positioned Telehealth as an Ethical Duty. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology has said telehealth is a legitimate tool for expanding access to obstetric and gynecologic care. According to Anish Sebastian at Babyscripts, new RCM billing codes in 2026 could help as well. Read more…
How AI, RTLS, and Security Advance Patient Care and Staff Safety. The combination of AI and real-time location systems can improve security through real-time monitoring, predictive interventions, and faster emergency response, said Dr. Shannon Housh at CenTrak. Read more…
Why Most Generative AI Investments Fail (and How to Fix Them). Andy De at Lightbeam Health Solutions outlined the limitations of generative AI as compared to AI agents, which are fully autonomous and can complete tasks with little to no human involvement. Read more…
The Mandate for Payment Precision in a Provider-Centric World. Avoidable payer-provider friction contributes to financial leakage, increased administrative costs, and eroded trust. Improving payment precision before claims leave the office is a key step forward, said Mark Noel at AMPS. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for November 5, 2025: Boston-based Community Care Cooperative seeks a CMIO. Read more…
Bonus Features for November 2, 2025: 49% of orgs say patient experience is their top strategic initiative; locum tenens use 25% higher than expected since the start of 2024. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Smarter Technologies acquired Pieces Technologies and launched SmarterNotes, which integrates note generation with concurrent RCM intelligence.
- Virtual specialty care network Switchboard Health acquired Conduce Health, which offers decision support for multispecialty care.
- Patient experience platform Assort Health closed a $76 million Series B financing round.
- AI-driven care platform Counsel Health raised $25 million in Series A funding.
- Autoimmune disease care platform WellTheory raised $14 million in Series A funding.
- Patient reported outcomes analysis company Folia Health closed a $10.5 million Series A funding round.
- Behavioral health administrative automation platform Hipp Health raised a $6.2 million seed round.
- Healthcare cybersecurity and compliance vendor Clearwater announced a strategic investment from Sunstone Partners.
- Clinical trial simulation company QuantHealth received a strategic investment from Sanofi Ventures.
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