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.
What GLP-1 Drug Coverage Reveals About Our Healthcare System. Insurers are increasingly limiting GLP-1s to their original purpose of treating diabetes and no longer covering the drugs for weight loss. According to Andy Oram, this reversal represents healthcare in the United States in a nutshell: Thinking the problem is solely a matter of high costs and not the result of several complex and intersecting issues. Read more…
The Right Information at the Right Time for Post-Acute Care. John Lynn sat down with PointClickCare CMO Dr. Hamad Husainy to talk about why discharge summaries need to be summarized for post-acute care – and why actionable information benefits patients and providers. Read more…
How AI Can Shift Healthcare to an Abundance Mentality. Heidi CMO Simon Kos joined John to explain how automating clinical workflows can double healthcare’s capacity and provide more equity to vulnerable populations whose access is limited by cost, distance, or language barriers. Read more…
Maintaining Data Across Mergers and Acquisitions. John caught up with Sharon Cook at Harmony Healthcare IT to learn why archiving and other data management needs must be considered before a merger if organizations want savings to extend beyond reduced spending on system maintenance. Read more…
Acute Care and Post-Acute Care Collaboration Benefits Value-Based Care. Our first of several dispatches from key HIMSS 26 sessions explored how University of Maryland Medical System and PointClickCare partnered to better coordinate care for patients discharged to a SNF by focusing on high-risk care pathways. Read more…
Stop Wishing Fax Away; Embed Agentic AI and Fix the Outcome. A staggering 70% of healthcare communication still relies on fax. Documo CEO Denis Whelan explained how automated document processing reads text, classifies documents, extracts data, and matches it to patient records. Read more…
Keys to Success With Virtual Nursing. Baptist Health and Caregility offered strategies for scaling virtual nursing, including building trust and consistency, ditching the computer on wheels, and finding opportunities to expand to virtual care. Read more…
A Future Ready Platform for Innovation. Finally, representatives from MEDITECH and HCA Healthcare UK discussed how to create a sustainable path for innovation using systems that are future-proof, intelligent, and extensible. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: The Benefits of the Virtual Lab. Josh Haimson at Inductive Bio talked to Danny Lieberman about running in silico experiments in a virtual lab to surface the strongest hypotheses to test in the wet lab. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Navigating the Changing World of Healthcare. John sat down with Rusty Yeager at Encompass Health to talk about what it takes to lead a healthcare IT team today. Read more…
From Programmer to Director: My 25-Year Journey Into the Heart of Data. The recently retired Doug Buell recapped his career at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he learned lessons about data stewardship, metadata, redundancy, trust, and the lasting power of tape. Read more…
The Costs of Missing What We Could Never See. An EHR shows the “whole picture” of a patient, but AI can surface the “right picture,” said Regard CMO Dr. David Kirk. That eliminates the blind spots that go unnoticed amid a flood of documents and data points. Read more…
Scalable IT Security Solutions Should Be Healthcare’s Top Priority. Nearly 82% of nurses have experienced workplace violence, noted 911Cellular President & CEO Chad Salahshour. Low-lift, high-impact technology such as mobile apps and “panic buttons” let staff send alerts quickly and discreetly. Read more…
It’s Time for “Actioning Information” to Move Beyond Endless Data Streams. Simply having data isn’t the same as acting on what the data tells you, according to Watershed Health CEO Effie Carlson. The answer is a mix of incentives tied to actions that show improvement, support for post-acute care, and workflow integration. Read more…
Discipline Over Speed: Personal Reflections After HIMSS26. Consultant Adam Cherrington noticed a shift in the conversations in Las Vegas this year – from chasing technology to asking better questions about how AI impacts clinicians, staff, and patients. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for March 25, 2026: The Bay Area’s Alameda Health System is looking for a CMIO. Read more…
Bonus Features for March 22, 2026: 54% of providers have used non-clinical resources to learn about preventive care; 47% of orgs report low perceptions of safety culture. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Quality data management company Medisolv acquired Lilac Software, which makes software to predict Medicare Advantage Stars performance.
- Health system Universal Health Services acquired Talkspace, a virtual behavioral healthcare company.
- Elsevier agreed to acquire Mytonomy, a creator of video-based patient engagement products.
- Value-based care consultancy Lumina Health Partners joined ECG Management Consultants.
- Practice management platform Nitra announced $187 million in financing.
- Health system financial management platform Translucent announced a $27 million Series A funding round.
- Medicaid-first maternal health company Malama Health announced an oversubscribed $9.2 million seed round.
- Diagnostics company Heart Input Output closed $4.25 million in new seed financing.
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