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.
Helping Doctors Get Paid for Prevention. Aledade founder and formed ONC head Dr. Farzad Mostashari (and his bowtie) joined John Lynn to discuss how seemingly simple and low-tech interventions are powered by a 360-degree view of the patient, making a more holistic approach to care possible. Read more…
Key Data Management Efforts to Ensure Your Organization Is Ready for AI. Data governance frameworks, modern technology architecture, and above all treating data management as a strategic imperative are critical for making this happen, according to the Healthcare IT Today community. Read more…
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum Felt More Human Than High Tech. Colin Hung returned to the IHI Forum for the first time in a decade and found an emphasis on practical improvement and sustained momentum, with AI part of the conversation without dominating it. Read more…
AI Scribes Changed Everything. What Comes Next for Clinicians? Greenway Health CMO Dr. Michael Blackman told Colin ambient documentation will be a lot like e-prescribing, which caught on quickly and is now nearly ubiquitous. What comes next should focus on making care easier for patients, Blackman said. Read more…
Bringing Prescription Intelligence Into the Prescribing Workflow. John connected with Dr. Julia Vu at Elsevier and Dr. Colin Banas at DrFirst, who explained the benefits of integrating real-time clinical guidance with evidence-based medical content. Read more…
What Healthcare Is Missing With AI for RCM. Jason Considine at Experian Health and Sharlene Seidman at Yale New Haven Health sat down with Colin to unpack why unproven accuracy, iffy HIPAA compliance, and general skepticism hold back AI adoption for claims management. Read more…
How Payers and Providers Find Common Ground in Post-Acute Care. Lorren Pettit summarized a PointClickCare study emphasizing that, despite their differences, payers and providers both deem reducing readmissions and improving care coordination as top priorities. Success for both entities means shared visibility. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Freeze-Drying the Future. Walt Pebley at OFD Life Sciences chatted with Danny Lieberman about 43 years of work in lyophilization, or freeze-drying, which is now used in novel formats for pain, diabetes, and neurology drugs as well as regulated dietary supplements. Read more…
CIO Podcast: The Voice of the Nurse. Marcie Lafido at Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital in Illinois joined John to discuss addressing the unique workforce challenges nurses face, including whether AI and other technology can help. Read more…
AI Therapy Chatbots and the Future of Mental Healthcare. Technology adoption in mental health is quickly outpacing the rest of the healthcare industry, noted Dr. Lindsay Oberleitner at SimplePractice. To ensure chatbots are used responsibly, clinical perspectives must be considered and incorporated. Read more…
Three Emerging Approaches to Generative AI in Healthcare. Organizations adopting AI either turn AI loose on their data, leave AI use up to employees, or put it in the hands of experts. Not surprisingly, the third approach appears to work the best, said Mark Bates at Intelliworx. Read more…
Why Healthcare Needs Verifiable Digital Identity. Today, payers and providers rely on a patchwork of methods to establish trust. That doesn’t scale, noted Mark Scrimshire at Onyx, who said the Legal Entity Identifier coupled with UDAP should offer a path forward. Read more…
Data Conversion Requires Precision, Not Just Pace. Dave Lamar at MediQuant explained that migrating legacy data is more than a file transfer, as insights into how data functioned in its old system are necessary for replicating views and workflows. Read more…
AI Agents Are Transforming Healthcare Operations. By streamlining RCM, accelerating patient intake, reinforcing compliance, and optimizing supply chains, AI agents are freeing clinicians to better focus on patients, according to Binny Gill at Kognitos. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for December 17, 2025: Among other roles, Connecticut’s Community Health Center seeks a Chief Information and Technology Officer. Read more…
Bonus Features for December 14, 2025: 56% of physician assistants use AI daily, while 46% of Americans over 50 engage with digital health tools. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- GE HealthCare will acquire Intelerad, a medical imaging software provider.
- Nano-X Imaging will acquire VasoHealthcare IT, a service and implementation consultancy, from Vaso.
- Medical imaging and clinical data Avandra Health acquired DatCard Systems and Sorna.
- Independent primary care network Aledade announced a $500 million senior secured credit facility.
- Lab test membership service Function Health announced a $298 million oversubscribed Series B round.
- Care orchestration platform Arbiter emerged from stealth with $52 million in funding.
- Life sciences intelligence platform Sorcero announced $42.5 million in Series B financing.
- Medicaid member management company Reema Health raised $19 million in Series B funding.
- Care management and transition technology company WellBeam raised $10 million in Series A funding.
- Denial prevention company Ember announced a $4.3 million seed funding round.
- EHR downtime resilience solution provider Spare Tire raised $3 million in Series A funding.
- Drug launch acceleration platform Cellbyte raised $2.75 million in seed funding.
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