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.
Hearing Firsthand How AI Is Being Applied in Healthcare. John Lynn attended Navina’s Ascend 2026 User Event, where sessions emphasized AI done right looks through the lens of the clinician, value-based care is a struggle, and officials at ONC and CMS are more than willing to listen. Read more…
The Quintuple Aim of Value Based Care Enabled by The Garage. John also had the opportunity to attend the FUSE 2026 User Event put on by The Garage. The conference focused on value based care and how organizations can leverage policy, process, and technology to achieve better value based care outcomes. Read more…
Unpacking Smart Data Archiving Features. Mike McGuire at MediQuant sat down with John to talk about using AI to gather insights from legacy data sources – including summarizing archived data, analyzing DICOM images, and even retrieving patients’ financial files. Read more…
Ensuring Successful Epic Go-Live With Real-Time Training Dashboards and Personalization. Dr. Rajeeb Khatua at ReMedi Health Solutions and Dr. Sara Helvey at Care New England discussed how specialized training paired with robust metrics contributed to successful Epic implementation. Read more…
Intelligent Monitoring Catches Accidental and Malicious Email Breaches. Brittany Quemby chatted with Andrew Goodman at Proofpoint about monitoring incoming and outgoing communication, with the latter bolstered by analysis of typical behavior for each user. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Replacing the Microsoft Word Protocol. Danny Lieberman caught up with Scott Chetham at Faro Health, which built an AI platform that can do in 60 minutes what previously took multiple clinical trial design experts three weeks. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Balancing Hospital Needs, Technology, and Innovation. Nitin Agarwal at Pennsylvania’s Wayne Memorial Hospital joined John to discuss the intersection of AI, interop, EMR, ERP, and hospital operations. Read more…
The Speed of Trust: Why Healthcare IT Fails the “Midnight User.” Digital health tools struggle with retention when they’re harder to use that a search bar, said Lineo Chale at Perkily. Organizations need to build tech to support the high-stakes situations when users need answers they can actually act on. Read more…
From Visibility to Automation: The Next Evolution of RTLS in Healthcare. HT Snowday at Midmark RTLS said the value of real-time location services is what the data enables, from process automation to safety alerts to actionable operational insights. Read more…
Healthcare Needs More Than the Model Context Protocol. MCP addresses communication between agents and data sources but isn’t a framework for coordination, noted Adam Farren at Canvas Medical. Healthcare needs an AI orchestration layer with the EHR as its hub. Read more…
Why MDM Implementations Fail, and How to Get Them Right. Boiling the ocean is one of the most consistent drivers of MDM failure, said Verato’s Cheryl Griffin. Successful projects start small, but with clearly defined objectives that build trust and allow for deliberate scaling. Read more…
Beyond Data Exchange: The Next Era of Interop Is Inside Clinical Workflows. True interoperability is surfacing relevant information and predictive, prescriptive recommendations at the exact moment a decision needs to be made, according to Jonathan Shoemaker at ABOUT Healthcare. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for May 6, 2026: Ohio-based Summa Health is looking for a CISO. Read more…
Bonus Features for May 3, 2026: 81% of patients repeat the same personal information multiple times to the same provider, plus 61% of orgs have made outsourced managed services a core part of IT strategy. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Life sciences commercial execution support company AcuityMD raised $80 million in Series C funding.
- Claims and denials management company Joyful Health raised $22 million in funding.
- Clinical decision support platform Almanac Health raised a $10 million seed round.
- Prior authorization and medical-necessity automation company Ethermed raised $8.5 million in Series A funding.
- Wearable vendor ŌURA acquired Galen AI, a personal health companion.
- IKS Health acquired TruBridge, which provides healthcare technology solutions for rural and community hospitals.
- Specialty practice software maker ModMed acquired Bonsai Health, an agentic AI patient engagement platform.
- Medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra acquired Oxipit, a provider of autonomous AI for radiology.
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