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.
Relieving the Burden of Release of Information Requests. Kaylan Blice-Mullins at Sherpas Healthcare Solutions and Brian Sitongia at Wills Eye Hospital joined John Lynn to talk about outsourcing records retrieval and cutting response times from hours to minutes. Read more…
The Hidden Link Between Legacy Data and Patient Safety. Justin Campbell at RLDatix chatted with Colin Hung about technical debt’s role in increasing burnout, because staff need to hunt for necessary information, and bridging gaps between incident reports and EHRs with AI’s help. Read more…
Reducing Hold Times and Staff Burnout With AI Call Automation. Tracy Causey, CEO of Virginia’s Capital Area Health Network, sat down with John to discuss using healow Genie to handle 80% of all inbound patient calls and connect patients to agents in less than 90 seconds if necessary. Read more…
Optimizing End-to-End Revenue Cycle Workflows with Health IT Solutions and AI. Hear from a variety of experts on things you can do to optimize your RCM (Revenue Cycle Management) by leveraging AI and other health IT solutions. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Why Pediatrics Poses the Hardest Problem. Danny Lieberman caught up with Dr. Darren Klugman at Alumni Ventures to address a difficult topic: Bringing value to pediatrics, where the market is structurally small and the patients are the most vulnerable. Read more…
CIO Podcast: An Inside Look at Being a CIO. Jeff Sturman at WittKieffer (and a former CIO) spoke to John about what today’s health systems are looking for in a CIO. They also debate an emerging concern: Are IT leadership teams getting too crowded? Read more…
Building Real-Time Medication Visibility Across the Enterprise. For many organizations, the hardest part of drug scarcity is that availability signal arrives too late or in the wrong place. Real-time visibility, exception-based workflows, and practical analytics can help bring order, said Kilee Yarosh at Omnicell. Read more…
Navigating EMR Implementation in Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom’s Vision 2030 plan for healthcare envisions secure and integrated systems. Dr. Rohin Rameswarapu at InterSystems said overcoming these obstacles will require change management, infrastructure modernization, and staff training. Read more…
Less Charting, More Care: Ambient AI’s Promise for Rural Clinicians. Christopher Rogowski at Pivot Point Consulting laid out six keys to success for deploying ambient AI in a rural setting. They include governance, incident response, and effective change management. Read more…
The Real Problem With Healthcare Data? No One’s Connecting It. AI’s role in supporting care delivery is synthesizing fragmented data and surfacing what’s already knowable but not easily visible, according to Steve Brown at CureWise. Read more…
How to Migrate Healthcare Infrastructure Without Disruption. Kelly Goolsby at Nexcess outlined the benefits of mapping out what infrastructure is in place, and who owns it. This can reduce downtime, migration costs, and above all frustration with the process. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for July 1, 2026: MarinHealth, just north of San Francisco, is looking for a CIO. Read more…
Bonus Features for June 28, 2026: Third-party failures disrupt operations at 85% of practices; nearly 60% of nurses say their tech training falls short. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Health plan benefits management company DUOS acquired Linkwell Health, a member engagement platform.
- Withings acquired Biosency, which specializing in monitoring patients with respiratory insufficiency.
- Healthcare operations management company Sagility acquired CareSeed, which specializes in HEDIS quality reporting and regulatory analytics for health plans.
- Life sciences commercialization support company Model N acquired Kalderos, which provides visibility into 340B drug discount programs.
- Physician engagement platform H1 received a $40 million investment.
- Administrative workload automation company Lassie raised $35 million in Series A financing.
- Anxiety and OCD care platform InStride raised a $30 million Series C funding round.
- Frontier Health raised a £9.7 million funding round; the startup is using AI to automate administrative tasks for NHS.
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