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.
Healthcare IT Today’s 20th Anniversary! On Dec. 11, 2005, the EMR and HIPAA blog posted its first article. It was shortly followed by sister site EMR and EHR. Interest exploded after the HITECH Act was passed. John Lynn and Brittany Quemby talked about the evolution of the sites, which were quickly joined by 13 others before Colin Hung had the bright idea (as he always does) to consolidate everything under the Healthcare IT Today brand. Read more…
AI Is Finally Moving the Ambulatory EHR Market Forward. AI is blurring the lines between clinical and business workflows, Greenway’s Troy Wasilefsky told Colin. That will help bring long-overdue change to a market Troy described as “stagnant.” Read more…
Healthcare Quality and Equity Through Data Exchange. John connected with MedAllies founder Dr. A. John Blair III, who said the momentum driving interoperability is building rapidly, thanks to the promise of TEFCA and increased federal commitment to and investment in data exchange. Read more…
Why Generative AI Is Crucial for Coding Complex Conditions. Denied claims are increasing, as is the cost to collect, and simply adding more staff isn’t solving the problem. That’s why leaders from AKASA, Cleveland Clinic, and Duke University Health System are bullish on letting LLMs review clinical documents. Read more…
Is AI Headed for a Blockchain-Style Letdown? Colin posed this question to Tilak Mandadi at CVS Health. He said no, because an AI-native health system is possible if leaders have the courage to rebuild from the ground up and make necessary regulatory and interoperability fixes. Read more…
Using Rewards to Reduce Hospital Readmissions for Heart Failure Patients. Dr. Spencer H. Kubo and Shahid Shah at CareCognitics discussed the benefits of digital engagement and clinician connections for patients recovering from heart failure at home. Cash incentives for patients and providers help, too. Read more…
Making Data More Useful to Health Systems Through AI. InterSystems’ Don Woodlock joined John to talk about use cases for agentic AI beyond ambient documentation – nearly all of which depend on connecting disparate data sets within the hospital. Read more…
NextGen’s Take on AI: Many Experts Beat One Big Brain. CTO Jacob Sims sat down with Colin to outline why NextGen is focusing on domain-specific AI agents, each of which carries deep domain knowledge about specific clinical or operational workflow. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Large Quantitative Models. Tiffany Callahan at SandboxAQ joined Danny Lieberman to discuss training statistical models on physics, chemistry, biology, and math for use cases that include identifying promising drug candidates and finding new uses for existing drugs. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: The Latest Edition of Buy or Sell. John and Colin debated the role of AI and data quality, as well as the impact of the government shutdown and cost reductions in general. Read more…
Low-Code Platforms Can Accelerate FHIR Adoption in Healthcare. Shridhar Rajanna at TietoEvry outlined how low-code’s drag-and-drop functionality, templates, and prebuilt components take the complexity out of FHIR app development – and drive innovation from the ground up. Read more…
It’s Time For Healthcare to View Cybersecurity as Risk Management. Third-party vendor and supply chain risks hit healthcare hard. That means cybersecurity is a shared responsibility that calls for leaders to view every security decision through a risk management lens, said Mike Levin at Solera Health. Read more…
The Hidden Costs of IT Change in Clinical Documentation. Migrating to a generalized documentation platform could do much more harm than good, especially for business units with complex workflows such as imaging, surgery, and endoscopy, according to Dr. Lukasz Kowalczyk at Provation. Read more…
AI Must Neutralize Physician-Induced Waste. While fee-for-service models push doctors to over-treat, AI-powered clinical decision support can provide evidence-based, real-time recommendations without worrying about the bottom line, noted Durga Chavali at Trinity Health. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for December 10, 2025: A CMIO role in New York, plus an associate CMIO position in North Carolina. Read more…
Bonus Features for December 7, 2025: 51% of payers use AI to help avoid interop and prior auth penalties; 38% of patients delayed or skipped care this year due to its cost. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Mergers and acquisitions: Luma Health acquired Tonic Health, which provides digital intake and consent forms; Emergence acquired MedEvolve, which automates RCM analytics, and MRO acquired Clinetic, a clinical trial recruitment management system.
- More acquisitions: Cybersecurity company Omega Systems acquired PEAKE Technology Partners, a managed services provider; eye disease detection company Optain Health acquired EyePACS, a teleophthalmology network, and BioIVT acquired BeCytes Biotechnologies, which collects human cells for biomedical research.
- Funding announcements: House Rx ($55 million in Series B equity and debt), Clairity ($43 million Series B), and No Barrier ($2.7 million in seed funding).
- Additional fundraising news: NextSense ($16 million Series A), Planbase ($2.1 million), and Sovato (Series B funding).
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