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.
2026 Health IT Predictions: The Healthcare Workforce. How will health systems support a struggling workforce? Data-driven training, safety risk monitoring, flexible staffing models, and clinical decision support are just some of the suggestions from the Healthcare IT Today community. Read more…
2026 Health IT Predictions: Rising Prices and Administrative Cost-Cutting. Managing these challenges will require real-time payer-provider data sharing, practical payment management solutions, a push for further automation, and reducing care delivery bottlenecks, the experts said. Read more…
2026 Health IT Predictions: Revenue Cycle Management. Managing audits, improving revenue integrity, and guiding decision-making are some of the key developments the experts expect for RCM automation next year. Read more…
2026 Health IT Predictions: Cybersecurity. This topic is always top of mind in the Healthcare IT Today community. Expected trends in 2026 include more AI-powered attacks, the growing risk of shadow IT, and increased emphasis on Zero Trust. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Brain Health, Behavior, and the Future of Dementia Prevention. Danny Lieberman connected with David Bates at Linus Health to discuss how the company is using digital cognitive assessments to turn rich behavioral signals into thousands of digital biomarkers. Read more…
How Health Plans Gain Provider Trust Through Payments. A better payment experience offers value to the provider by eliminating unnecessary friction, said Nick Challen at ECHO Health. Payers can accomplish that by offering payment choice, improving data quality, and ensuring security. Read more…
Building Member Trust With Generative AI in Prior Authorization. Adopting an AI governance framework that integrates member context and prioritizes member outcomes can help build trust in healthcare’s use of AI, which two-thirds of Americans aren’t confident about, noted Amy Qureshi at Citius Healthcare Consulting. Read more…
How Consumer Trends in Retail Can Help Clinicians Meet Patient Expectations. Rimidi CEO Dr. Lucienne Ide outlined how combining data and proven innovation in remote monitoring and other digital strategies enables providers to deliver care that’s more engaging, efficient, and equitable. Read more…
Careers in Telehealth: Telemedicine Companies Actively Hiring. This guest post from Telespecialists noted who’s hiring in telemedicine and what benefits they offer; the company also offered tips for finding the right employer. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for December 31, 2025: Newark, New Jersey-based University Hospital is looking for a CIO. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Payment integrity vendor Codoxo raised $35 million in Series C funding.
- Sentact acquired Performance Health Partners, provider of safety event/incident management software, along with the Vizient Patient Safety Organization.
- Dandy acquired Neem, maker of dental practice management software.
- Paradigm Health acquire Flatiron Health’s Clinical Research Business.
- Lightbeam Health Solutions acquired Syntax Health, a platform for population health contract modeling and incentive design.
- Mass General Brigham spun out AIwithCare, which developed an AI screening tool for clinical trial eligibility.
Thanks for reading and be sure to check out our latest Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundups. Happy New Year!
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