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.
Why Health IT Still Struggles to Move As One System. OntarioMD CEO Robert Fox connected with Colin Hung to explain why integration complexity increases when care delivery shifts beyond the solo physician model – and how AI can enable collaboration and bring care teams together. Read more…
Guidance from The Sequoia Project on Computable Consent and Privacy. Mel Soliz and Kevin Day, co-chairs of the organization’s Privacy and Consent Workgroup, outlined why laws written from a policy perspective are hard to translate into clinical and technical terms, and how The Sequoia Project is trying to hep. Read more…
Timely and Insightful Value-Based Care Data. Value-based care partners need to agree on a small set of shared metrics, Shweta Shanbhag at PointClickCare told John Lynn. That makes it easier to share data and glean insights from it in real-time, not weeks after the fact. Read more…
Epic Hosting in the Public Cloud. Former health system CTO Dr. Tim Calahan, now at EHC Consulting, joined John to spell out how transitioning the EHR to the cloud transforms IT teams from infrastructure caretakers to strategic enablers. He also talked about Epic’s evolving thoughts on public cloud, as well as using AI in the cloud. Read more…
Is It a Tech Problem or a Policy Problem in Value-Based Care? We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on this question. While opinions were divided, one theme emerged: The problem is primarily misalignment between policy and technology. Read more…
How Ambient AI Helped Two Clinics Break the Cycle of Pajama Time. Colin caught up with Dr. Derrick Hamilton at Juniper Health and Kathy Halcomb at White House Clinics to learn about using NextGen Healthcare’s Ambient Assist to help clinicians reclaim nights and weekends – and boost staff morale. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Increasing Productivity in Clinical Research. Yendou CEO Zina Sarif chatted with Danni Lieberman about creating value for trial sponsors and research organizations through thoughtful site selection and relationship management. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Implementing Oracle. Michael Archuleta at Colorado’s Mt. San Rafael Hospital and Clinics joined John to discuss what drew the health system to Oracle Health and its Clinical AI Agent, as well as how they’re preparing for EHR implementation success. Read more…
Revolutionizing Healthcare with Agentic AI: The Breakthroughs Hospitals and Health Plans Can’t Afford to Overlook. We all know that AI agents are all the rage. Everyone is discussing the future of agents and how they’re going to change the world. This piece looks at agentic AI from a healthcare perspectives. Read more…
AI Is Already Practicing Medicine. Is Pharma Ready? Effective use of AI for life sciences organizations means balancing governance and competency development, said William Soliman at ACMA – and it works best when it’s treated as a cross-functional priority. Read more…
Health Plan AI Has a Costly Data Problem. Unreliable provider data inflates administrative expenses and undermines ROI for digital transformation, according to Megan Schmidt at Madaket. The ideal fix is an infrastructure approach that prevents data fragmentation at its source. Read more…
How Modularity Is Rebuilding the Healthcare AI Stack. Danish engineering has long favored modular parts that interlock cleanly (the country is the home of LEGO, after all). Composable AI systems would letorganizations focus on specific use cases instead of rebuilding the same foundations repeatedly, said Andreas Cleve at Corti. Read more…
When Lean Six Sigma Meets AI: How Hospitals Redefine Process Excellence. AI is transforming Lean Six Sigma from a periodic improvement exercise into a system of continuous intelligence, said Albert Adusei Brobbey at SigmaSenseAI. In this sense, AI is a natural evolution of Lean Six Sigma ant not an outright replacement. Read more…
Data Analytics and Predictive Modeling’s Role in Identifying High Risk Patients and Optimizing Care Plans. The community comments on how you can leverage data analytics and predictive modeling as part of your value based care efforts. Hear from leading experts on how to identify high risk patients and improve care plans. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for February 11, 2026: UCLA Health seeks a CIO, and data management company Harmony Healthcare IT seeks a CTO. Read more…
Bonus Features for February 8, 2026: 60% of healthcare employees say ChatGPT reduces burnout; meanwhile, hospital operating margins hovered at 1.2% in 2025. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Onsite and virtual care providers Premise Health and Crossover Health entered a definitive agreement to merge.
- Sword Health acquired Kaia Health, a digital health company focused on musculoskeletal and pulmonary care.
- Specialty behavioral health treatment company NOCD acquired Rebound Health, a provider of treatment for trauma, and announced that Noto will serve as its new parent brand.
- Women’s telehealth company Wisp acquired TBD Health, a national sexual health platform.
- Healthcare Triangle is acquiring Teyame AI, which focuses on omnichannel consumer / patient experiences.
- Kodiak Solutions acquired Besler & Company, maker of revenue recovery and hospital reimbursement solutions.
- Health plan claims operations automation company Alaffia Health announced $55 million in Series B financing.
- Virtual applied behavioral analysis therapy provider AnswersNow raised $40 million in Series B funding.
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