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.
Connecting Patients With Virtual Nursing. Caregility President and COO Mike Brandofino talked to John Lynn about how sensors and communication tools in the hospital room of the future improve the patient experience and let nursing teams monitor more patients at a time. Read more…
Ramsoft OmegaAI and Blume: A Hands-On PACS and Portal Walkthrough. Colin Hung reviewed the usability, workflow, and overall experience of Ramsoft’s offerings, which benefit from fast loading times, intuitive designs, and patient-centric AI tools. Read more…
Healthcare’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Fraud Problem Starts at the Front Door. Jay Meier at FaceTec talked to Colin about the clinical dangers of poor patient matching and what it takes to give patients control of their biometric data – and trust in the process. Read more…
Preventing AI From Becoming a Confident Liar. Colin sat down with James Kirtley and Julie Lamoureux at Dimensional Insight to learn why highly structured data governance is highly effective; it creates an audit trail for where data and insights came from, and it prevents arguments in the boardroom. Read more…
Bringing AI Agents to Healthcare. John caught up with Anshar AI CEO & Founder Pinaki Saha, who recommended getting started with agentic AI with pilots that have a clear goal. For many organizations, that happens to be preventing denials in the first place and determining what it will take to get denied claims approved. Read more…
Moving Healthcare Cybersecurity Away From the Perimeter. Jeremy Molnar and Chad Alessi at CTG talked to John about making sure organizations define the actions items and technology tools they need to carry out their emergency response plans. Read more…
Reducing Physician Burden Through Well-Designed Medication Management. John connected with Drew Hunsinger and Dr. Colin Banas at DrFirst about automating or otherwise accelerating prior authorization for specialty medications, which now make up 90% of all new medications. Read more…
Health IT 2026 April Fool’s Day Jokes. For another edition of Fun Friday we focused on the jokes shared on April Fool’s day. There are some great ones from Epic, Christina Farr, and more. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: The Next Phase of Clinical Research. Veristat CEO Kim Boericke joined Danny Lieberman to explore what it really takes to build and lead a durable contract research organization in a rapidly shifting life sciences landscape. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Answering the Questions We Asked Everyone at HIMSS. What was top of mind for John and Colin in Las Vegas? The biggest lessons from AI use, the most reasonable health tech policies, and the mistakes everyone keeps making. Read more…
Fiber as the Foundation for AI, Telemedicine, and Big Data. Great Plains Communications CTO Tony Thakur outlined why a reliable fiber network is a strategic requirement for delivering advanced patient care today – and for what will come in the future. Read more…
Agentic AI Is Reshaping the Future of RCM. Prior authorization and claims management are ripe for transformation, noted Karly Rowe at Inovalon. Organizations must balance speed and automation must with strong governance if they want to get agentic AI right. Read more…
Technical EHR Implementation Is Only Half the Battle. Donna Palmer at Juno Health said collaboration and change management are critical to the success of an EHR overhaul. It starts with clear communication and multidisciplinary teams that break down silos. Read more…
Fragmented Technology Is Stifling Radiology. Radiologists routinely operate across several core systems, and context switching translates into hours lost per radiologist per day. AI can help, said CIVIE CEO Dhruv Chopra, but only if it’s natively embedded into authenticated, audited, and monitored clinical systems. Read more…
While Products Address the Moment, Platforms Are Hard-Earned Over Time. Infrastructure that allows innovation to scale matters more to healthcare than point solution novelty, according to Suki CTO Joe Chang. That means organizations that prioritize foundational capabilities will shape how AI is woven into the fabric of care. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 1, 2026: Multiple roles for community health workers as well as IT directors / managers. Read more…
Bonus Features for March 29, 2026: 57% of execs say AI-based clinical tools are their top tech initiative – but 57% of patients say AI isn’t mature enough for docs to trust it. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- GE HealthCare completed the acquisition of Intelerad, a medical imaging software provider, for $2.3 billion in cash.
- Chartis acquired Leap AI, which builds AI-enabled products and solutions for healthcare.
- Workforce management vendor Viventium acquired Perks4Care, a rewards and recognition platform for the post-acute care workforce.
- Care navigation company Quantum Health acquired CirrusMD, an on-demand virtual care company.
- Verily announced a $300 million investment and said Alphabet will be a significant minority investor in Verily while no longer having a controlling stake.
- Pricing and payment platform Turquoise Health raised $40 million in Series C funding.
- Specialty care platform Lantern announced a $30 million investment.
- Workflow automation vendor Health Universe announced $6 million in seed funding.
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