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.
A Breakthrough for Surgical Residents: AI That Watches You Operate. At the SAGES conference, Colin Hung took in a session by Dr. Chloe Nobuhara at Stanford that highlighted the use of computer vision models that detect errors in uploaded videos and assess the skill of the surgeon, cutting training time significantly. Read more…
How Payers Can Modernize Operations Without Ripping Everything Out. John Lynn chatted with Brian Yavorsky at Imagenet about taking a step-by-step approach to implementing AI and automation – starting with the “high frustration areas” that require a lot of human labor. Read more…
Measuring Patient Engagement and Satisfaction Outcomes. How does the Healthcare IT Today community make this happen? Answers included treating clinician experience and operational metrics as leading indicators, as well as monitoring care plan adherence (which often reveals more than satisfaction scores). Read more…
How TPMG Cracked the Value-Based Care Code. Jeff Morrison at Virginia-based Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group sat down with Colin to discuss aligning EHR use with CMS incentives (through tracking key metrics and automating outreach) and alleviating the burden of quality reporting. Read more…
The Myth of the Single Healthcare Decision-Maker. At Reuters Digital Health 2026, Colin learned why vendors must secure both executive sponsors and clinical champions in the sales process – and what it takes to displace incumbents. Read more…
Quick Takes From HFMA 2026. At the conference, John Lynn heard from healthcare financial management leaders about leveraging price transparency data and aligning AI initiatives to meaningful outcomes (Part 1) and uncovering revenue leakage and pairing AI with clinical governance (Part 2).
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Military Intelligence Meets Pharma Strategy. Tony Page at Within3 talked to Danny Lieberman about helping life science companies move to proactive, intelligence-driven launch strategy. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Adopting AI and Smart Technology. Jill Evans at MetroHealth joined John to talk about evaluating AI functionality when looking at tools that nurses will use, including smart hospital rooms. Read more…
Payers Are Quietly Redrawing the Rules of Hospital Reimbursement. Severity downgrades, retrospective coding challenges, and clinical validation audits reduce payments without outright denials. Organizations need to focus on documentation and claims monitoring, said Missy Harbert at Revecore. Read more…
Healthcare Facilities Can’t Tell if They’ve Been Hacked Until It’s Too Late. Once a breach is contained, organizations still struggle to determine how attackers got in and whether that door is actually closed. Audit trails are everything, provided they’re reviewed regularly, said Chris Skipworth at Passpack. Read more…
Curing Healthcare Revenue’s Complexity Problem. Complexity grows as revenue moves across multiple systems, teams, and time horizons, noted Steve Harding at Clari and Salesloft. Successful organizations are building a more structured approach to revenue orchestration. Read more…
AI-Driven Quality: The New Standard for Healthcare IT Service Desks. Dan O’Connor at HCTec said organizations gain visibility into how users engage with support by analyzing IT service desk interactions to improve efficiency and ultimately enable proactive support. Read more…
Healthcare’s Agentic AI Future Will Be Decided by Infrastructure, Not Models. The limiting factor in AI adoption will be whether healthcare systems can support action from accessing data to triggering real-time workflows, according to Sagnik Bhattacharya at Rhapsody. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for June 17, 2026: Long Island’s St. John’s Episcopal Hospital at South Shore is looking for an Associate Chief Digital Information Officer. Read more…
Bonus Features for June 14, 2026: Number of patients using telehealth down 48% since 2020; 71% of patients want phone or in-person assistance when they need help. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Network performance management vendor Clarify Health acquired Loyal Health Holdings, a patient activation platform.
- ealth Catalyst divested Vitalware and the Vitalware business unit, its mid-revenue cycle business, to Med-Metrix.
- Elsevier acquired Wellsheet, which aggregates patient data from EHRs to surface clinical intelligence at the point of care.
- Surgical video analysis startup Uncovr announced $7 million in seed funding.
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