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.
The 2026 EHR Market is Cooling as Leaders Pivot to AI. Colin Hung connected with Paul Warburton at KLAS Research, which recently released its U.S. Acute Care EHR Market Share Report. The takeaways: Large systems are in a holding pattern, smaller systems are switching to Epic, and large-scale IT projects aren’t happening. Read more…
Practical AI and the Reality of Data Standards. At eHealth26, Canada’s leading health IT event, Aidan Lee and Matt Leducat OntarioMD joined Colin to discuss the role of actionable guidance for implementing healthcare data standards, particularly when it comes to AI use. Read more…
Building Trust and Interoperability Across Canadian Healthcare. Also at eHealth26, Colin talked to Karen Gauthier and Gurpreet (GP) Singh at ELLKAY about leading data migration projects in several provinces, with a focus on viewing archiving and interoperability as part of a larger data strategy. Read more…
Unlocking RCM Capabilities With Generative AI. Malinka Walaliyadde at AKASA sat down with John to talk about AI’s role in quickly and accurately coding patient records, which contain dozens of documents and 50,000 words for the average patient. Read more…
Where RCM Needs a Human Touch Instead of AI. This is an important question as automation takes hold in the revenue cycle. Advice from the Healthcare IT Today experts included complex denials and appeals, assessing performance, understanding regulations, and providing empathy to patients in need. Read more…
The Power of Voice AI Agents in Automating RCM. John connected with Sam Schwager at SuperDial, which rolled its own AI voice agent and marketed it to other RCM vendors. The company has since made more than 7 million automated calls. Read more…
Sumit Rana to Step Away from Epic. John had a chance to interview Epic’s President, who’s stepping away from Epic on August 14 to devote more time to his family – which is certainly understandable as he recently lost his father. Among Sumit’s proudest moments at Epic: Seeing MyChart grow to 195 million users worldwide. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: The Industry You’ve Never Heard of Is About to Change Hands. Rachel Timberlake at Bend Bioscience talked to Danny Lieberman about why disruption is coming to the world of contract development and manufacturing. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: RCM Trends. John and Colin reflected on what they heard about RCM during the spring conference season. That made them wonder: Are we heading for a day when we have totally autonomous RCM? Read more…
‘The Pitt’ Cyberattack Scenario Wasn’t Fiction – Most Health Systems Still Aren’t Ready. Most downtime procedures were designed for temporary outages, not prolonged operational paralysis, noted Matt DeFrain at Arcova. The solution starts with reframing cybersecurity around patient impact. Read more…
The Strategic Value of a Patient Portal Service Desk. The success of a patient portal relies on the support structure that enables patients to effectively utilize them. Specialized support for account access, navigation, technical troubleshooting, and patient education helps accomplish this, said Chris Durham at HCTec. Read more…
Closing the Gap Between Personal and Population Health. Saikrishna Kavali at Sacred Heart University detailed outlined a FHIR-based family health record framework. This aims to bridge the gap between detailed medical records and scattered sources of household intelligence such as availability of food and levels of stress. Read more…
Innovation Fatigue in Healthcare Is Real. Here’s How to Avoid It. Melissa Powell at The Allure Group offered five tips for ensuring innovation leads to measurable improvements in care delivery and clinician experience. Starting with workflows and co-designing with clinicians are important first steps. Read more…
Why Connected Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Cared For. Despite growth in FHIR API adoption, healthcare’s walled garden problem is real and underacknowledged. Ryan Carlson at Soracom said successful deployments built care models around constraints such as unclear data flows and indirect integrations. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for July 8, 2026: Roles in behavioral health, community health, and cybersecurity. Read more…
Bonus Features for July 5, 2026: 58% of dermatology practices see patients daily with AI-generated diagnoses; 94% of CIOs say AI delays would put their orgs at a competitive disadvantage. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Assort Health announced a $120 million Series C funding round; the company makes an AI agent for specialty care workflows.
- Cadence announced in $100 million in Series C funding; the company’s AI platform supports chronic care management for older adults.
- Clinical decision support vendor xCures closed $46 million in Series B financing.
- Brazil-based clinical AI platform Telepatia raised $33 million in Series A funding.
- Primary care platform Elation Health acquired Aster, an AI-native EHR focused on women’s health.
- Vizient acquired Empierus, an advisory firm specializing in IT contracting and healthcare technology management.
- Compliancy Group acquired Healthicity, a provider of healthcare auditing and compliance software.
- Belmont Medical Technologies acquired Arcos, maker of blood transfusing tracking and resuscitation support software.
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