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.
Epic UGM 2026: Judy Faulkner Keynote and Cool Stuff Ahead. John Lynn made the trip to Wisconsin, where the vendor’s user group meeting was chock full of announcements. Among the biggest: Cosmos Curiosity (using research data to predict patient outcomes), Ergo (a new clinician interface), Penny (autonomous coding), Data Tracker (within Epic Research), and more initiatives for smaller organizations. Read more…
Epic UGM 2026: Key Stats. John also provided a roundup of numbers that capture the extent of Epic utilization, from 9.3 billion patient records exchanged in the last 12 months to 1.4 million clinicians using AI in Epic every month. Read more…
Ensure Back Office Accuracy and Consistency With Data Governance and Master Data Management. To make this happen, the Healthcare IT Today community recommended structured accountability, standardized data capture, and clearly defined business rules. Read more…
Faster, Safer Patient Care Starts With Better Team Chat. John connected with Jackie Frey at Zenzap, who laid out the major features a good health care messaging tool should provide beyond the table stakes of EHR integration and usability. Read more…
Stop Waiting for Interoperability: Use Agentic AI to Automate Operations Across Systems. Colin Hung caught up with Rishi Nayyar at PocketHealth, which is applying agentic AI to navigate software screens and bypass traditional integration hurdles entirely. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: AI Transformation in Drug Discovery. Tara Austraat-Churik at Blue Matter Consulting chatted with Danny Lieberman about what happens when AI-native tech companies discover drugs without being pharma companies at all. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Healthcare AI Pet Peeves. What gets John and Colin worked up about AI policy and how AI is used? What about the AI startup landscape? Listen to find out. Read more…
The Clinical Revenue Cycle vs. the Middle Revenue Cycle. Kevin Coloton at HURC unpacked why separating RCM stages has created silos that no longer work in today’s payer environment, along with the role of tech-enabled services in fixing the problem. Read more…
A Build vs. Buy Framework for Agentic AI in Healthcare Operations. The gap between pilot and deployment is where most organizations struggle with AI, noted Chandresh Patel at Bacancy Technology. The challenge is assuming that if an AI agent can complete a workflow, it’s ready for production. Read more…
Americans Are Asking AI for Medical Help, But Bad Data Is Standing in the Way. Matthew Blosl at DexCare noted that with the right data, AI can match patients to the right doctor, surface the right history, and handle admin work – not just answer after-hours questions. Read more…
Patient Financing Belongs in the Digital Front Door, Not Just the Billing Office. The digital front door was built for scheduling, not paying, according to Drew Allen at Conceptualized. Embedding financing lets patients see estimates of costs when they book appointments. Read more…
What Ethically Built AI Means in Behavioral Health. Dr. Michael Arevalo at Core Solutions described why AI can surface a pattern, flag a risk indicator, or draft a summary but cannot make the final call when supporting clinicians in behavioral health. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for August 19, 2026: Multiple roles in community health as well as data and information management. Read more…
Bonus Features for August 16, 2026: Only 7% of orgs have dedicated software to manage prior authorizations; Gemini users can now book appointments with Zocdoc. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Longevity health platform Function closed $450 million in growth financing.
- Virtual care management company HealthSnap secured $25 million in growth financing.
- Cardiopulmonary care company Wellinks secured $10 million in Series B funding.
- AI app-building platform Blaze.tech raised $8.5 million in pre-seed funding.
- Kyndryl acquired Healthcare IT Leaders, an enterprise IT services provider for hospitals and health systems.
- RCM vendor EnableComp acquired Helix Advisory, a revenue recovery firm.
- Unite Us acquired Vircho Health, which makes performance and financial tools for community care networks.
- Healthcare Triangle acquired a 51% equity stake in CosmoInnovations, which provides medtech and consumer health products.
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