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.
Embedding 200 Years of Evidence Directly into Clinical Workflows. Derrick Leung at BMJ Group told Colin Hing about the organization’s efforts to bring medical evidence from the British Medical Journal into clinical workflows using a API while at the same time making it possible to organically map a patient’s symptoms and diagnosis to the right clinical evidence. Read more…
Removing Risk Adjustment From AI’s Typical Black Box. RAAPID CEO Chetan Parikh caught up with Colin to explain why risk adjustment cannot afford to guess how an algorithm arrived at a billing code. That’s why the company built a glass box that lets organizations see the evidence. Read more…
Expanding Data Exchanges in Volume and in Purpose. Paul L Wilder at the CommonWell Health Alliance explained how health data exchange is evolving beyond providers to support payers, public health entities, and patients. This is increasing data volume but also complexity. Read more…
Modernized Meal Ordering in a Behavioral Health Unit. Because psychiatric care units don’t have bedside phones, UCHealth tapped into a patient-facing food-ordering app tied to Epic so nurses could order patients’ meals, Jenna Sampson told Colin. One obstacle: Codifying allergies previously documented in free-text fields. Read more…
Are Disconnected Food Systems Your Hospital’s Biggest Blind Spot? Arun Ahuja and Aric Alibrio at Illumia talked to Colin about how the hidden risks of fragmented nutrition technology make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches unnecessarily complex, not to mention costly. Read more…
Reclaiming the Exam Room and Empowering Specialists. Dr. Caleb Masterson at B&B Sinus and Allergy Relief Centers and Dr. Joel Salamon at ModMed joined John Lynn to discuss bringing specialty-specific workflows to AI scribes so physicians can practice medicine on their own terms. Read more…
Why Buying More IT Doesn’t Equal Higher Productivity in Radiology. Colin sat down with Ramsoft CEO Vijay Ramanathan and Lamb Technologies CEO Charlie Lamb, who explained that successful implementations require bridging the gap between technical capabilities and actual user needs. Read more…
Digital Health Canada’s ON26: Brilliant Data Visions, But a Billion-Dollar Deja Vu. Ontario Health proposed a federated approach to data sharing, but a proposed province-wide, single primary care medical record left Colin scratching his head since that failed the first time Ontario tried it. Read more…
From Image to Insight: Clinical Edge AI in Practice. John recapped a HIMSS panel that he moderated about using modern architecture to bring AI closer to the point of care reliably and at scale. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Reinventing Neurology’s Gold Standard. NeuraLight CEO Eddie Ben-Ami sat down with Danny Lieberman to chat about measuring disease progression by testing eye movement and extracting biomarker data. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: ViVE and HIMSS Recap. Special guest host Reese Maynard joined John to discuss the key takeaways from this spring’s conferences, including the AI topics that everyone needs to stop talking about. Read more…
The Cyber Risk Leaders Are Overlooking in Healthcare AI Assistants. LLMs don’t distinguish between legitimate and malicious instructions. If digital tools provide inaccurate or manipulated information, confidence in the institution behind those tools can erode quickly, said Dror Zelber at Radware. Read more…
Behavioral Health Can’t Wait for AI and Telehealth Policy Clarity. As providers use technology to expand access to behavioral health services, internal frameworks that treat telehealth delivery, prescribing compliance, and AI governance as connected systems will drive success, said Iris Telehealth CEO Andy Flanagan. Read more…
Virtual Behavioral Health Is Transforming Quality, Access, and Outcomes. Array Behavioral Care CMO Dr. Sara Gotheridge highlighted virtual care’s potential to reduce time to first appointment, which is critical for assessing patients’ needs in the moment, as well as support sustained improvement through ongoing care. Read more…
Rural Healthcare Deserves More: Why Integration Is the Path Forward. Managing point solutions adds cost and complexity that rural providers can ill afford, according to Kem Graham at CliniComp. Integrated systems can help rural health systems better serve patients within their communities. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 15, 2026: Multiple roles in cybersecurity and community health. Read more…
Bonus Features for April 12, 2026: 67% of consumers say AI’s time savings will make providers more engaged; 27% of desktop devices in healthcare are unencrypted. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- First-response software maker ESO Solutions acquired d2i, which aggregates and analyzes EMR, RCM, scheduling, and patient experience data.
- D2 Solutions acquired ProModRx, which aims to boost patient access to prescription medications.
- Clinical operations platform Thesis Care announced $45 million in Series A funding.
- Behavioral health AI infrastructure startup Jimini Health announced $17 million in seed funding.
- Post-discharge care management company Dimer Health announced $13.5 million in Series A financing.
- Analytics and decision support company Ambient Clinical Analytics closed a $5 million strategic funding round.
- hopper OS acquired Efferent, a healthcare informatics company that specializes in cloud-based PACs.
- Patient financial experience platform Collectly acquired Pledge Health, which automates pre-service patient financial workflows.
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