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.
HIMSS 2026 Insights from the Show Floor. The Healthcare IT Today team was in Las Vegas in full force. In fact, we recorded so many video interviews with leading experts in the industry that we couldn’t post them on one page.
- Day 1 noted innovations in cardiac care, networking hardware, and cybersecurity, along with reducing technical debt.
- Day 2 addressed payments, cost transparency, AI accuracy, and the launch of Amazon Connect Health.
- Day 3 covered data cleansing, governance, agentic AI, and cybersecurity (again).
- Day 4 shared insights on health data quality, robotics, and scaling AI.
Freeing Health Care Providers to Focus on Strategy. Scott Gildea and Gene Scheurer at Optimum Healthcare IT joined John Lynn to discuss why the company created a Managed Services Center of Excellence that can take on routine IT operations and maintenance for overworked hospital IT teams. Read more…
Addressing the Hidden Complexity of Hospital Meals. Workflows in nutrition and dining service are some of the most complex and intense in the hospital, Colin Hung learned at the recent Illumia user conference. Standard recipes, a single platform, and mobile ordering for staff with short lunch breaks can all help. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Global Medical Data Imaging Infrastructure. Dany Lieberman connected with Asta Ratkeviciene at MedSyntra, which is ethically curating millions of imaging studies to inform AI model development. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Improving IT Efficiency. Former CIO Todd Richardson joined John to unpack why IT often feels like a financial burden and how organizations can work to change that. Read more…
Radiology Is the Launchpad for Healthcare’s Agentic AI Era. Radiology sits at a rare intersection of acute operational pain and high technology readiness, which makes it the ideal service line for testing cutting-edge agentic AI solutions, said Rishi Nayyar at PocketHealth. Read more…
Why Device-Centric Security Is Risky in Healthcare. Mobile security strategies haven’t kept pace with BYOD trends, and mobile is now the preferred attack vector, said Matt Stern, CISO at Hypori. The best remedies are removing data from devices and decoupling security from the endpoint. Read more…
Moving AI in Home Care From Potential to Impactful. In home care, AI fails to scale in the absence of operational frameworks and clear governance. Treating AI as an operational capability can help agencies overcome these obstacles, said Sushrut Naik at Machinify. Read more…
Why Patient Verification Starts with Data Quality. Close to 10% of patient records in American healthcare are duplicates, according to Bud Walker at Melissa. The best way to cut down on the downstream impact of duplicate records is to stop errors at intake. Read more…
How Positive Distractions Reshape the Pediatric Hospital Experience. Anxiety is closely linked to lengthy hospital stays for children. Immersive gaming is one way to help create moments of normalcy and even build bonds with other patients, noted Brandon Kuzara at Dimensional Innovations. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for March 11, 2026: Baptist Health System is looking for a System Vice President of IT Infrastructure. Read more…
Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition, for March 11, 2026: Epic says 85% of customers use Epic AI news, plus multiple Microsoft Dragon Copilot integrations and lots more announcements. Read more…
Bonus Features for March 8, 2026: 69% of physicians struggle to access recent records from outside providers; 76% of healthcare orgs have more AI pilot programs than they can scale. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Danaher acquired Masimo, a provider of pulse oximetry and other patient monitoring solutions, primarily in acute care settings.
- Exa Capital acquired StaffReady, a SaaS platform for clinical workforce management in healthcare.
- Patient advocate company Solace Health announced a $130 million Series C funding round.
- Brain health company Salma Health emerged from stealth with $80 million in Series A funding.
- Behavioral health platform Ease Health emerged from stealth with $41 million in Series A funding.
- Epic-native virtual care platform KeyCare closed a $27.4 million financing round.
- Administrative workflow automation company Synthpop announced $15 million in Series A funding.
- Administrative workflow automation company Third Way Health raised an oversubscribed $15 million in Series A funding.
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