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.
Overcoming Barriers to Scaling AI Initiatives. How is the Healthcare IT Today community accomplishing this? Strategies include addressing cultural resistance, aligning workflows, building trust, educating staff, and determining how to calculate ROI. Read more…
Improving Health With Technology, Behavioral Science, and Human Connection. Chandra Osborn at AdhereHealth talked to Colin Hung about using highly personalized engagement and motivational interviewing to address root causes of problems such as poor medication adherence. Read more…
When Metal Meets Digital: The Best Surprises from SAGES 2026. While attending the annual surgical conference, Colin learned about the digital tools making surgical devices smarter, from algorithms predicting post-operative complications and virtual reality modules assessing surgeon skills. Read more…
Modern Systems Power Financial Stewardship in Rural Healthcare. Bryant Blay at Iowa’s Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics and Mike Johnson at Multiview ERP explained how financial and revenue solutions can bridge the gap between clinical and back-office systems, supporting strong clinical care and more sustainable financial performance long term. Read more…
Is AI Orchestration the End of “Click Fatigue” in Healthcare? Orchestration works best when it runs in the background, RamSoft’s Vijay Ramanathan told Colin. On the other hand, standalone AI only creates more work. Read more…
Removing Fragmented Vendors and Info-Blocking Risks From Data Migrations. Colin heard from James (Jim) Hammer at Harmony Healthcare IT about the benefits of having one team handle data from legacy extraction straight through to the final archive. Read more…
Why Data Interoperability Should Not Be a Luxury. Every organization should combine its data into a single platform that handles the network, access, and aggregation, ELLKAY’s Gurpreet (GP) Singh told John Lynn. This addresses the current limitations of data exchange. Read more…
Using AI and Integrated Systems to Strengthen a Culture of Safety. Rachini Moosavi at UNC Health and August Calhoun at RLDatix outlined the benefits of connecting safety, workforce, compliance, and operational data on a single platform, including needing 75% less time to report an incident. Read more…
The AI Call Center Surprise at the 2026 eClinicalWorks Enterprise Summit. Colin was impressed that healow Genie can handle non-linear conversations, as an anonymized call played on the keynote stage showed the AI agent pivoting from refilling a prescription to scheduling an appointment. Read more…
Helping Providers of All Sizes Adopt Epic. Med Tech Solutions’ Kaitlyn Nelson and Imran Siddiqui sat down with John to share how to handle Epic implementations from hosting to training to go-live to archiving legacy systems. Read more…
A Practical Approach to Hospital Downtime and Data Resiliency. Frederick Health CIO Jackie Rice and IPeople Healthcare President Ryan Dickerson discussed their approach of maintaining a secure, on‑premises copy of critical patient data that’s refreshed in near real time to provide reliable access during downtime. Read more…
Improving Email Deliverability, Compliance, and Third-Party Privacy. John connected with Ash Valeski at Proofpoint, which is helping hospitals make sure outgoing email meets the requirements of the receiving side and stopping email that contains sensitive information. Read more…
Transforming Workflows: AI and High-Performance Computing for Efficient Operations. John recapped a HIMSS panel that discussed how AI is changing core clinical workflows, as well as how to innovate in a financially sustainable way. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Revolutionizing Clinical Trial Protocols. Danny Lieberman connected with Pedro Coelho at Biorce, which is building AI that fixes clinical trial protocol errors and foresees one-click clinical trials by the end of the year. Read more…
CIO Podcast: A CEO’s View on Healthcare Technology. Dr. Fatih Mehmet Gul at Qatar’s The View Hospital – Cedars-Sinai joined John to talk about the expectations CEOs have when it comes to AI, along with where IT has had a major impact in the hospital. Read more…
How Context-Driven AI is Finally Moving Healthcare Forward. Only 30% of AI pilots in healthcare successfully transition into production environments. Embedding domain experts within live workflows collapses the gap between development and operations and improves the odds of success, said Sathiyan Kutty at Emids. Read more…
The Hidden Compliance and Revenue Gaps in Home Health. ClientCare.pro founder Matt Sauced said agencies are leaving money on the table by treating eligibility verification and exclusion screening as one-time events, and by under-coding comorbidities. Read more…
Why Behavioral Health Spends More Time on Notes Than Any Other Specialty. Unstructured qualitative data means behavioral health providers spend half their time on administrative tasks. Templates, structured workflows, and automated note generation can help, said WellNotes AI founder Robert Botto. Read more…
How AI-Driven Discharge Planning Can Reduce ED Boarding. Delayed discharges are an efficiency problem and a patient safety issue. The fix is predictive analytics that enables more proactive coordination of care and removes discharge bottlenecks, said Michelle Skinner at TeleTracking Technologies. Read more…
“Who Hosts Your Data?” Is Now a Compliance Question. BAAs establish accountability but doesn’t determine if hosting providers can withstand payer review, according to Kelly Goolsby at Nexcess. Ideally, a cloud partner has a dedicated environment, accessible documentation, and predictable costs. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 22, 2026: San Francisco-based stealth-stage startup Uptake AI seeks a Founding CTO. Read more…
Bonus Features for April 19, 2026: Behavioral health makes up 66% of all telehealth visits; 70% of healthcare orgs hit with ransomware attacks pay up. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Wearable vendor WHOOP raised $575 million in Series G funding.
- Operations automation platform Luminai closed a $38 million Series B funding round.
- Patient-facing clinical AI agent company Insight Health announced an $11 million Series A funding round.
- Virtual rheumatology company Remission Medical closed a Series A funding round.
- Post-acute care software maker LivTech acquired Alora Healthcare Systems, developer of cloud-based home health care software.
- Membership-based lab testing company Function acquired Getlabs, a mobile care platform that brings licensed specialists directly to patients.
- Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio, a provider of artificial intelligence software for medical researchers.
- Behavioral health EHR vendor Qualifacts acquired MethodOne by Computalogic, a controlled-medication dispensing software system.
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