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.
Partnerships
- CareQuest Innovation Partners and PDS Health are collaborating to expand blood pressure screening and patient consultation in dental settings.
- Talkdesk Healthcare Experience Cloud is now integrated with Epic Caboodle, the company’s enterprise data warehouse.
- SEQSTER and Astute are partnering to help organizations access patient data across clinical settings.
- The Veeva Vault Platform is now connected to Snowflake‘s AI Data Cloud for Healthcare & Life Sciences.
- Training programs from Skilltrade are now available in ShiftMed‘s workforce optimization platform.
- Care management and remote monitoring technology from ThroughCare is now integrated with Withings smart scales.
- Decision support technology from VisualDx is now integrated with Perplexity‘s Premium Health Sources.
Products
- Artera unveiled its AI Services Model for specialty care, FQHCs, IDNs, and federal agencies.
- Assort Health launched Assort Activate, which delivers personalized patient outreach across channels.
- Diagnostic testing company BillionToOne launched Unity Confirm to help analyze fetal DNA.
- Substance use disorder patient engagement application CaredFor launched its post-discharge Measurement Based Care platform.
- Google announced Chrome Enterprise Premium, which extends Chrome with enterprise-grade security and management capabilities for healthcare.
- Infinitus Systems launched Lens to help organizations evaluate AI agent calls and human-led calls using the same criteria.
- Mental healthcare provider Lyra Health updated its Empower platform with AI capabilities for members, providers, and employers.
- RxUtility launched Mimi, an AI agent for understanding medication cost options. It’s free to use while in beta.
- Tether launched QVAC MedPsy, a medical language model designed to run directly on smartphones, wearables, and other devices with limited processing power.
- VisiQuate launched Policy Pulse to help healthcare organizations identify payer policy changes before they go into effect and understand their likely operational and financial impact.
- WEDI launched a testing directory for organizations to find testing partners for the CMS Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Final Rule, which has a January 1, 2027 deadline.
- Zyter announced Zyter Praxis to help health plans embed automated workflows into enterprise operations.
Implementations
- Georgia-based Wellstar Health System selected BD to support medication dispensing and infusion.
- Massachusetts-based Holyoke Medical Center is partnering with IKS Health in an effort to improve clinical and revenue optimization.
- The Africa Clinical Research Network selected Oracle Life Sciences to launch its first clinical trial, which aims to predict the absence or occurrence of severe pre-eclampsia-related maternal and fetal outcome.
- Pennsylvania’s St. Luke’s University Health Network chose RapidAI to support imaging analysis in stroke care in the operating room.
Company News
- A RevSpring survey found 58% of patients would look for a new provider if they were unhappy with appointment or billing communication.
- Color’s Virtual Cancer Clinic earned ASCO Certified status.
- Transplants.org debuted as a patient education and care navigation platform for organ and stem cell transplantation.
People
- Heart and lung disease detection company Eko Health appointed Dr. Steven R. Steinhubl as Chief Medical Officer.
- Independent medical practice software maker AdvancedMD appointed Brandon Russell as Chief Customer Officer.
- Radiology workflow orchestration vendor NewVue named Patrick Zientara as Chief Revenue Officer.
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