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.
Stats
- A Buzz Health report found 94% of HR, CFO, and benefits leaders are very likely to adopt a tool to help educate employees on prescription affordability.
- A study by Piwik PRO and Verified Data found 73% of hospitals are ignoring Global Privacy Control opt-outs, which is recognized in 12 U.S. states. Additionally, 69% were using marketing or advertising cookies.
- A Smallpdf survey found healthcare workers lose 161 hours per year dealing with PDFs, with that lost productivity costing $5,635 per worker.
- A Teradata survey found 87% of senior tech and data leaders in healthcare said unifying data across business functions is a challenge for their organization.
Partnerships
- ECG diagnostics technology from AccurKardia will power the analytics behind Wellysis‘ cardiac monitoring offering in the U.S.
- Quantitative analysis technology from Cortechs.ai is now integrated with Viz.ai‘s disease detection and care coordination platform.
- Helix and AstraZeneca are partnering, with cohort data from Helix’s GenoSphere now accessible to AstraZeneca. In addition, the company announced Helix’s GenoSphere MCP connector is available in Claude Science, Anthropic’s AI workbench for scientists.
- Kinomatic and WHOOP launched Kinomatic RESTORE, a concierge recovery pilot program purpose-built for joint replacement.
- AI agent outreach technology from PatientGenie is now integrated with RevSpring‘s National Provider Directory MCP.
- Genomic testing and profiling services from Quest Diagnostics have been integrated with Flatiron Health‘s OncoEMR through a pilot program with American Oncology Network.
- Remote therapeutic monitoring platform Medbridge is partnering with SaRA Health, a patient engagement, billing, and network infrastructure platform for outpatient rehabilitation.
Products
- 1upHealth announced the 1up Gateway to support compliance with the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule among health plans with existing FHIR infrastructure.
- Senior care company Bold expanded its clinician-led weight management program to include GLP-1 prescriptions as part of the CMS Bridge program.
- Cantata Health Solutions expanded Arize, its EHR platform, with capabilities for child and youth services organizations.
- Carta Healthcare announced Lighthouse for Oncology, which allows health systems to apply Carta Healthcare’s Hybrid Intelligence approach to extracting data from cancer registries.
- Data fidelity company Kythera Labs launched the Clinical Semantic Bridge MCP on the Databricks Marketplace.
- The Institute for Healthcare Advancement released HealthLiteracyCopilot, a platform for evaluating health communication against validated, evidence-based standards.
- Trice Imaging launched Trice Workspace Reporting to support clinical decision-making and improve efficiency in obstetrics and maternal fetal medicine.
- Withings announced Withings Medical, a clinical care service that launched first for the Medicare population as part of the CMS ACCESS Model.
Implementations
- The National Basketball Players Association selected Teladoc Health as its preferred virtual care provider.
- New York state FQHC Sun River Health selected VisualDx for clinical decision support.
Company News
- CliniComp announced FDA clearance of PACS Viewer as a Medical Image Management and Processing System.
- Clover Health Investments subsidiary Counterpart Health published research indicating decision support for chronic care management is linked to improved HEDIS performance.
- Clinical AI vendor emtelligent published research showing its frontier models outperform LLMs alone in SNOMED CT coding.
- IKS Health complete its acquisition of TruBridge, which was first announced in May.
- InStride Health published research showing access to virtual specialty treatment can significantly reduce caregiver strain for individuals caring for youth with complex anxiety, OCD, and related disorders.
- RadiantGraph published research showing AI-powered voice outreach increased appointment completion rates by 3.4x and enabled a 9x increase in outbound call volume compared to human agents.
- Surgical Safety Technologies rebranded as Aimbient to reflect its aim to boost efficiency and quality across every procedural space in the hospital.
People
- Evergreen Healthcare Partners named Saad Chaudhry as CEO; he was most recently Chief Digital Information Officer at SSM Health.
- Pivot Point Consulting appointed Terri LeFort as CEO; she was most recently President at Nordic International.
- Qure.ai appointed Malika Shrivastava as Chief Marketing Officer; in addition, Qure.ai published research indicating greater likelihood of early-stage lung cancer detection using the company’s AI-enabled chest X-ray technology.
- Health information network eHealth Exchange appointed Doug Dietzman as President and Executive Director.
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