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.
Achieving Scalability With a “Netflix Approach” to Enterprise Cloud Imaging. Colin Hung and Brad Levin at Visage Imaging discussed the benefits of streaming images instead of moving them, which can shorten implementation timelines and offer a single view across clinical domains. Read more…
TEFCA, Bulk Exchanges, and Other Advances in Data Sharing. Jay Nakashima at eHealth Exchange and John Lynn covered bulk data access using FHIR, the relationship between TEFCA and CMS-Aligned Networks, and the limitations of interoperability in healthcare. Read more…
Solving Healthcare’s Unstructured Data Problem. Colin caught up with Roy Vincent at medQ and Marianne Soucy at Consensus Cloud Solutions to learn about automatically interpreting, routing, and prioritizing faxes – which 70% of healthcare organizations still use. Read more…
Building an AI-First Company From the Inside Out. Greenway Health CEO Richard Atkin joined Colin to chat about rejoining the company to make a more assertive move into AI-driven development. That has led to shorter build cycles, faster prototyping, and tighter iterations. Read more…
How The Sequoia Project’s Working Groups Promote Data Exchange, Compliance, and Privacy. CEO Mariann Yeager sat down with John to discuss the organization’s efforts to make health data sharing more trusted and compliant across a range of use cases and stakeholders. Read more…
2026 Health IT Predictions: Interoperability. This is always a popular topic, and the experts in the Healthcare IT Today community delivered with thoughts on improving patient access, prior authorization, precision medicine, data ecosystems, and risk stratification when data flows more freely. Read more…
2026 Health IT Predictions: Healthcare at Home. The experts expect to see AI interpreting non-clinical conversations, pharmacies reaching patients more directly, and nutrition support evolving in order to better support hospital-like care at home. Read more…
2026 Health IT Predictions: Smart Tech, Wearable Devices, and Robotics. The Healthcare IT Today community sees potential to reduce hospital-acquired conditions, improve surgical precision, calculate risk scores, and implement smart hospital rooms. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Data Integrity, Synthetic Data, and Strategic Moats in Analytics. Danny Lieberman covered a lot of ground with Daniel Blumenthal at MDClone. There’s a key focus on distinct use cases for synthetic data, especially AI and analytics mature. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: 2026 Predictions. John and Colin offered their thoughts on AI in healthcare for the year ahead. Oh, they discussed other technology, too. Read more…
Clean Data, Healthy Revenue, and the Patient Journey. The financial toll of claims rejected because of data errors becomes quickly unsustainable when multiplied across thousands of patient encounters. Data quality is essential for improving care and boosting revenue, according to Bud Walker at Melissa. Read more…
Home Care Providers Understand That Better Data Supports Better Care. Contrary to assumptions, caregivers don’t view digital advancement as a barrier to their work, said Stephen Vaccaro at HHAeXchange. That signals that home care agencies should invest in data collection and trendspotting. Read more…
How to Secure Healthcare’s Digital Transformation. Robert Arandjelovic at Netskope introduced three steps for improved cyber resilience as healthcare increasingly relies on AI tools and others third-party systems: Strong frameworks, better regulatory oversight, and Zero Trust. Read more…
Smarter Prevention With AI and the “One Health” Approach. One Health links human, animal, and environmental well-being, noted Dr. Valerio Morfino at DXC Technology. Fragmented data makes it difficult to see this full picture, but AI and geospatial intelligence can unlock the One Health approach. Read more…
Why Identity Blind Spots Drive Healthcare’s Costliest Cyber Incidents. Many hospitals still center their security around networks and endpoints, but the perimeter has moved, according to Ariel Parnes at Mitiga. Identity-first defense is the best response, he said. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for January 7, 2026: Fully remote roles in cybersecurity and compliance. Read more…
Bonus Features for January 4, 2026: ASTP seeks to remove 34 of 60 health IT certification criteria. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Private practice EHR platform Tebra closed $250 million in new equity and debt financing.
- Brain signal translation software maker Neurable closed a $35 million Series A funding round.
- Catalyst by Wellstar launched Polysight to help health systems address rising regulatory complexity in healthcare.
- Accenture invested in Ryght AI, which brings agentic AI and enterprise technology to clinical research design and execution.
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