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.
News From the eClinicalWorks Health Center Summit. John Lynn made his way to the event, which brings together FQHC users. He learned about healowIQ (which provides peer-reviewed evidence at the point of care) and the AI Workbench for creating agents in a no-code platform. Read more…
Evolving From Patient Outreach to Patient Engagement. Mayank Pant at IKS Health sat down with John to discuss why organizations need to go beyond medical records and analyze patient behavior if they want to truly engage instead of repeatedly reaching out. Read more…
Using Data Analytics to Improve Claims Management, Utilization Review, and Care Coordination. Enterprise data management, predictive modeling, and proactive workflows all help providers and payers work together to address these issues, the Healthcare IT Today experts said. Read more…
Aligning Payer and Provider Goals Around Value-Based Care and Quality Measurement. How is the Healthcare IT Today community getting this done? Simplified bundles, decision support, shared data models, predictive insights, and clinical and operational alignment all help. Read more…
How Corewell Health Cut Food Waste and Improved Patient Safety. Tony Boggs at Corewell Health talked to Colin Hung about integrating Illumia with Epic to automatically cross-references a patient’s clinical requirements with available food options, among other benefits. Read more…
Medical Practice Insights from AMGA 2026. John’s interviews at the event covered what makes agentic AI most effective, how to support AI at the bedside, and selecting the right value-based care model. Read more…
MedFlorida Uses AI in RCM As a Growth Enabler. Colin caught up with Robert DeLuca at MedFlorida Medical Centers, which is using eClinicalWorks AI to manage more claims, and see fewer claims get rejected, without adding billing staff. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: The Intersection of Breakthrough Science and Market Opportunity. Danny Lieberman talked to Jennifer Ernst at Valion Bio about moving from ideation to FDA clearance to revenue – and pivoting throughout her career. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Health IT Mount Rushmore, Part 2. This time around, John and Colin discussed the main companies that should be on the industry’s Mount Rushmore. Read more…
Healthcare Is Under Siege Due to Ransomware Attacks. As data storage environments duplicate and expand, IT leaders lack visibility into where to find sensitive data. Attackers exploit these loopholes, but they can be closed through better defense and governance, according to Krishna Subramanian at Komprise. Read more…
When a Vendor Gets Breached, What Happens to Your Patient Data? Scheduling, intake and billing systems often leave specialty practices exposed because they’re implemented quickly, said Kelly Goolsby at Nexcess. That’s why organizations need to choose hosting environments with compliance in mind. Read more…
The Incidental Finding Problem Emergency Medicine Can’t Ignore. Because ED doctors focus on acute care, 1% of patients leave the ED with an unaddressed but clinically urgent incidental finding. AI tools that scan images and documents can close these care gaps, said Dr. Justin Schrager at Vital. Read more…
AI’s Complex Impact on Patient Access. All too often, investments in AI expose gaps between the digital front door and the phone workflow, according to Stephen Dean at Keona Health. Solving this problem means addressing all access channels in a unified way. Read more…
Here’s Why AI Alone Won’t Fix Physician Burnout. AI’s efficiency gains tend to get reinvested into throughput, noted Dr. Marc Ayoub at Saile. The industry would be well served to couple the technology with what clinicians really want: Better control over where and when they work. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for May 13, 2026: Roles in informatics, records management, and community health. Read more…
Bonus Features for May 10, 2026: Poor communication would lead 58% of patients to look for a new provider; Google extends Chrome with security features for healthcare. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Clinical AI vendor Aidoc raised $150 million in Series E funding.
- Clinical research network Iterative Health closed a $77 million Series C financing round.
- Medication access company Photon announced a $16 million Series A funding round.
- Agentic AI startup XCaliber Health announced $6.5 million in seed funding.
- Impact Advisors acquired Canopii Collaborative, a consulting firm specializing in Epic solutions.
- Carlyle acquired a majority stake in Knack RCM and EqualizeRCM and intends to create a multi-specialty RCM platform.
- Medisolv acquired Health Elements AI, which captures clinical data from medical records for quality reporting and clinical registries.
- Managed service provider Med Tech Solutions acquired Avarion.
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