Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT that we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
Studies
- A report from EBSCO Clinical Decisions and DynaMed found two-thirds of consumers believe the time saved by AI will make their providers more engaged – though there’s a strong preference for evidence-based AI over general-purpose AI.
- A survey of chief nursing officers from Wolters Kluwer Health found 53% of organizations have virtual nursing programs in place, and another 34% plan to launch in 2026.
- A Qventus survey found 94% of healthcare CIOs believe delays in operationalizing AI would put their organization at a competitive disadvantage.
- A CENTEGIX survey found 54% of healthcare staff staff safety measures are a top priority when considering a job.
- Research from Omnissa found 27% of desktop devices in healthcare are unencrypted, and 60% of Android devices are 5 or more operating system versions behind the latest update.
Partnerships
- Penguin Ai launched its Prior Authorization and Medical Coding solutions as Snowflake Native Apps on Snowflake Marketplace.
- Reputation management capabilities from rater8 are now available in athenaOne from athenahealth. In addition, athenahealth named Relatient a Preferred Solution Partner for patient scheduling.
- The consumer pharmacy pricing app RxWallet is live on First Databank’s FDB Vela ePrescribing network.
- Prescription navigation company Scripta Insights is partnering with RxUtility, a medication affordability platform, in an effort to improve prescription pricing transparency.
- Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing is collaborating with Johnson & Johnson to advance disaster preparedness, response, and recovery education for nurses.
Products
- AdvancedMD launched AdvancedMD eMAR, its Electronic Medication Administration Record for medication workflows.
- Cedar expanded Cedar Intelligence with new capabilities to support personalized patient billing workflows.
- Fortrea unveiled Fortrea Intelligent Technology to support clinical trial operations.
Implementations
- Houston Methodist deployed Midstream Health‘s financial intelligence platform for enterprise operations.
- Ohio-based Southwest General deployed Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent Clinical Note across 18 ambulatory specialties.
- Caribbean group insurer Coralisle Group expanded its partnership with Personify Health, a wellness platform.
Company News
- CloudWave cybersecurity subsidiary BlueOrange Compliance was approved as a MEDITECH Alliance Program Collaborator.
- CenTrak received Epic Toolbox designation for the real-time location system (RTLS) category.
- Research from Creyos demonstrated that digital behavioral health screeners can accurately detect Alzheimer’s disease in approximately six minutes.
- Virtual sleep clinic Dreem Health joined Amazon’s Health Benefits Connector.
- GE HealthCare received FDA clearance for True Definition DL, its deep learning image reconstruction tool for computed tomography (CT).
People
- Remote surgery platform Sovato appointment Dr. Brian Miller as CEO.
- Body composition monitoring company ImpediMed appointed Erik Anderson as Managing Director and CEO.
- B2B interpreting and translation services GLOBO Language Solutions appointed Ryan Toohil as CTO.
- Epicore Biosystems, which makes wearables that analyze sweat, named Brian Reagan as Chief Commercial Officer.
- Data workflow vendor Arcadia appointed Chris Rallo as Chief Product Officer.
- Digital health marketplace AVIA named Ashley Allen as Chief Customer Officer and promoted Kristen Flint to Chief Operating Officer.
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