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.
Keeping the Patient at the Center of Large-Scale Technology Deployment. John Lynn connected with Lindsey Bengfort at NTT Data to discuss trying to manage the pace of change with AI, especially from the start of a pilot to the time to ramp up adoption. Read more…
Turning Data Into Actionable Insights. Renee Wiczorek at Truven by Merative gave John a demo of the company’s dashboards and insights, which help organizations evaluate program benchmarks and determine where investments will have the biggest impact. Read more…
Integrating Back-Office Systems With Clinical and Front-End Applications. The Healthcare IT Today community is solving this challenging problem with flexible infrastructure, platforms, device-level security, ambient documentation, and AI agents embedded in clinical workflows. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Scaling Physical Therapy Without New Clinics. Danny Lieberman connected with Dr. Ashok Gupta at TheraNow, which uses virtual physical therapy to help health systems expand capacity without adding buildings or staff. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Leadership Succession. In light of Sumit Rana leaving Epic, John and Colin Hung discussed whether a company’s leadership and succession plan matters to customers, along with how to ensure a smooth path forward. Read more…
The Growing Gap Between Healthcare Risk and Healthcare Governance. AI can help organizations improve threat detection, prioritize alerts, and streamline security operations, but AI cannot compensate for fragmented governance or inconsistent risk management practices, noted Sam Peters at IO. Read more…
How to Maintain Patient Care During Communications Outages. Lori Stone at First Responder Network Authority, the overseer of national broadband network FirstNet, explained how FirstNet supports direct communications and acts as backhaul for Wi-Fi and other systems. Read more…
The Denial Economy Is Asymmetric. Knowing That Can Start to Fix the Issue. John Beene at Soupy Audit explained why providers don’t audit Recovery Audit Contractor extrapolations – and why they should respond by flagging risks, tracking payer activity, and monitoring changes in demand. Read more…
Taking a New Approach to Physical Security in Healthcare. It’s difficult for humans to continuously monitor live video for potential signs of security threats. Shikhar Shrestha at Ambient.ai described agentic physical security that can reason about what’s happening, decide if it matters, and initiate the right response. Read more…
How Trust-Centric Design Reduces Patient Stress and Retains Users. Yuliia Apanasenko at Phenomenon Studio provided four user experience principles that help reduce uncertainty and guide patients toward the next step in their care journey without leaving them to figure it out themselves. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for August 5, 2026: Houston-based Texas Children’s Hospital seeks a CISO. Read more…
Bonus Features for August 2, 2026: Vizient projects 8% increase in healthcare IT spending for 2027; 70% of clinicians chart outside of working hours. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Full-body MRI scanning company Neko Health completed a $700 million Series C funding round ahead of its U.S. launch.
- Autonomous RCM platform Candid Health raised $120 million in Series D funding.
- Agentic AI platform Bunkerhill Health closed a $55 million Series B funding round.
- Provider operations platform Assured announced $19 million in Series A funding.
- Cardiovascular technology company Karoo Health closed $16.2 million in Series A financing.
- Precision diagnostics company Vivid Dx announced $15 million in seed financing.
- Breathing and sleep disorder device maker SoundHealth announced $12.25 million in funding to date this year.
- Autoimmune disease care platform Mirae launched with $5.4 million in funding.
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