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.
Duke Health Is Building the Hospital of the Future. John Lynn chatted with LaDonna Worrell at Duke Health and Dr. Justin T. Collier at Lenovo about ensuring physical infrastructure doesn’t hold back technology implementation, as the hospital set to open in 2028 must support decades’ worth of technology. Read more…
Overcoming Challenges Aligning IT Infrastructure With Value-Based Care Goals. Understanding clinical workflows, achieving interoperability and aggregating data, and closing care gaps outside the hospital are key to making this happen, the experts in the Healthcare IT Today community said. Read more…
Helping Providers Track Quality Outcomes for Value-Based Care Reimbursement. To succeed in VBC, providers need insights into financial performance, risk management, clinical pathway standardization, care gaps, and more, according to the Healthcare IT Today community. Read more…
Healthcare Interoperability Works Through Open Standards. In a wide-ranging chat, Ryan Howells at Leavitt Partners noted new CMS interoperability requirements “could unleash more innovation in healthcare tech than ever before” and undo some of the damage from meaningful use, which didn’t require standard EHR interfaces. Read more…
CMS Reimbursement for Tech-Enabled Therapies. John talked to Sensus Healthcare CEO Joseph C. Sardano about why CMS has become more disciplined about policies, procedures, and reimbursements, particularly in technology used to treat skin cancer. Read more…
Does Your Radiology AI Actually Work Here? Colin Hung connected with HOPPR CEO Dr. Khan Siddiqui, who said hospital IT teams need to make sure AI models work for their configurations, protocols, and workflows, even if a vendor says the models work “everywhere.” Read more…
Are You Testing and Monitoring Your Cloud-Based Healthcare Data Centers? John summarized an Anritsu white paper that unpacks the benefits of purpose-built devices for optimizing cloud-based data center performance, scalability, and more. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Building a Rare Disease Ecosystem. Sagi Sigali at Rafa’s Moonshot joined Danny Lieberman to discuss turning a rare genetic disorder into an investable, de‑risked therapeutic opportunity. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: ViVE and HIMSS Preview. It’s that time of year again. John and Colin talk about what makes ViVE and HIMSS different, what topics they expect to hear discussed in the hallways, and how to thrive at a large conference. Read more…
The Most Overlooked Benefit of AI Isn’t Clinical; It’s Human. AI comes into its own as a quiet, workflow-level tool designed to absorb administrative and cognitive load, according to Roy Wills at Intellias. The key to making this happen is ensuring AI systems are built to support clinicians, not supplement them. Read more…
Lessons Healthcare Learned the Hard Way – and Why Agentic AI Must Be Different. Aditya Bansod at Luma Health described how frustration with complexity, friction, alerts, and point solutions hurt the first wave of digital health and noted that platforms offer a better path forward. Read more…
Anshar to Debut AI’s Game-Changing Agents at HIMSS. Emily Snyder at AnsharAI described how one hospital cut denials by 60% in just one month by integrating Anshar AI into its existing claim management system. This reflects the power of agentic AI to function autonomously and manage complex administrative tasks. Read more…
Interoperability Must Be the New Standard for NEMT. Non-emergency medical transport is a highly fragmented market of disconnected digital tools, said Jill Hericks at Kinetik. Interoperability can lead to transparency, which allows for real-time decision-making. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for February 18, 2026: Workforce management company Avant Healthcare Professionals seeks a Vice President of Technology and Digital Solutions. Read more…
Bonus Features for February 15, 2026: 58% of providers say TikTok is harming long-term health literacy, healthcare accounted for 22% of all disclosed ransomware attacks in 2025. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Virtual psychiatry provider Talkiatry announced $210 million in Series D financing.
- Health plan AI platform Anterior announced a $40 million funding round.
- Viventium acquired Apploi, creating a human capital management provider purpose-built for the post-acute market.
- Pharmacy software maker for community health NuvemRx acquired R1 RCM’s 340B referral capture business, which was formerly known as par8o.
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