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.
RSNA25: So Much Innovation, But One Theme Dominated. On the ground in Chicago, Colin Hung heard a lot about bringing enterprise imaging into the cloud and bringing efficiency to digital pathology. But artificial intelligence was top of mind for everyone, as AI is now foundational to radiology, Colin learned. Read more…
Aligning Cybersecurity With Business Goals. First Health Advisory’s Trish Alexander and Rick LeMay highlighted the value of translating technical data into clear business impact – a critical step as organizations strive to set security priorities amid scare resources and talent. Read more…
Making the Transforming Episode Accountability Model Work. TEAM provides an incentive for better post-surgical care by basing payments on the total costs of recovery. Robin Roberts at PointClickCare talked to John Lynn about the importance of real-time visibility into how patients are doing. Read more…
Applying Automation and AI to Incoming Faxes. VHC Health CNIO Jess Czelusniak and Tim Hoskins at Vyne Medical discussed cutting the time needed to classify and sort faxes from 15 minutes to 3 by automatically extracting the data needed to route documents. Read more…
A New HIPAA-Compliant LLM Focused on Health Literacy. Only 10% of Americans know how to get the information they need to manage their health. The Institute for Healthcare Advancement and HealthcareGPS built HealthLiteracyCopilot to help healthcare organizations make documents more accessible. Read more…
Using Smart Hospitals and Unified Communications to Connect the Last Mile. Sean O’Neal at TigerConnect and Jeff Fallon at eVideon (which TigerConnect recently acquired) described how tablets and smart displays integrated with the EHR break communication barriers between the nurse station and patient room. Read more…
How Secure Language Translation Devices Enable Better Patient Communication. Jeff Burrow at Pocketalk and Matt Fidler at Virginia’s Augusta Health talked to John about making interpreter services available as soon as patients walk in the door using dedicated devices. Read more…
How Multi-Agent AI Reshapes Patient Experience at Scale. Colin caught up with Mike Serbinis and Sarah Donnelly at League to learn about applying AI agents to the questions patients ask that are hardest to answer – like how much care will cost and how soon they can see a doctor. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Validating Technology With Evidence. Danny Lieberman connected with Jeff Gombala at Evidexa to learn about using the combination of expert knowledge and AI models to validate healthcare and medical technology tools. Read more…
CIO Podcast: AI’s Clinical and Operational Impact. DaVita CIO Madhu Narasimhan joined John to share many valuable thoughts on using AI, from understanding how AI impacts quality to putting rich datasets to work to improve kidney care. Read more…
Is EHR Market Dominance the Death of Innovation? Just two vendors account for 70% of the inpatient and ambulatory markets in the United States. That has made it difficult to fix broken workflows and reduce complexity, noted Medicomp Systems CEO David Lareau. Read more…
Tech For Good: Empowering Healthcare Nonprofits With AI. Tech for good means strategically deploying core technology to address urgent social challenges, said Nisha Kadaba at PagerDuty. AI vendors and other technology companies can do a lot to empower healthcare organizations. Read more…
Connected Technology Is Revolutionizing Emergency Response. 73% of ambulances serve rural areas, and onboard connectivity is vital for transports that can take hours over rugged terrain. The ideal option is high-capacity, high-speed, and low-latency network connectivity, said Cory Davis at Verizon Frontline. Read more…
How Technology Supports Intensive Outpatient and Partial Hospitalization Programs. Ram Krishnan at Valant spelled out how telehealth, AI, automated outcome collection, and patient engagement augment structured behavioral health models and help IOP and PHP run smoothly. Read more…
What HIPAA Updates Mean for Security Teams. Proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule would require full implementation, documentation, and enforcement of all safety features. Clearly, manual approaches won’t cut it any more, said Yair Cohen at Sentra. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for December 3, 2025: Three providers orgs seek a CIO, while Sanford Health’s health plan seeks a CTO. Read more…
Bonus Features for November 30, 3025: Healthcare workers twice as likely to be optimistic about AI in EHR than pessimistic; meanwhile, Oracle Health joins the QHIN ranks. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- The latest mergers and acquisitions: DocGo acquired SteadyMD, a virtual care platform; Findhelp acquired Uno Health, a government benefits enrollment tool, and Vatica Health merged with Cozeva to advanced value-based care enablement.
- Funding announcements from Hippocratic AI ($126 million Series C), Arya Health ($18.2 million Series A), and Popai Health ($11 million).
- Additional funding news from KATALYST ($10 million at launch), Honey Health ($7.8 million in seed funding), and Senphonix ($200,000 grant from the Partnership for Economic Innovation)
- More fundraising announcements from SageCare ($20 million at launch), roclub ($11.7 million Series A), and Fourier Health ($8.4 million in seed funding).
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