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.
Enabling Direct-to-Consumer Care Models. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community what needs to happen to get this done. Advice included moving the front end of care beyond the hospital’s four walls and taking steps to preserve trust as organizations adopt AI-driven tools to engage with patients. Read more…
Making Interoperability a Front-of-House Clinical Benefit. Colin Hung connected with Kirsty Maunder at CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre to talk about efforts to pre-populate forms before clinical visits and write back to information systems to save clinicians time and reduce errors. Read more…
Civitas 2026 Annual Conference Preview. John Lynn chatted with Civitas Networks for Health CEO Jolie Ritzo, Anne Santifer at Arkansas State Health Alliance for Records Exchange, and Dan Cranshaw at KC Health Collaborative. They expect rural health and HIE to lead the conversation. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: The Internet of Bodies is Coming. Danny Lieberman caught up with Rick Duchin at HabitCure, which is interpreting the body’s signals to help people understand what happening to them. Read more…
CIO Podcast: AI Tools and Behavioral Health. Patrick Williamson at Array Behavioral Care joined John to discuss what makes AI governance so crucial for behavioral health, especially when it comes to using PHI. Read more…
Restore the Human Connection Using AI-Enhanced EHR Workflows. Baha Zeidan at Azalea Health explained how AI takes the EHR’s evolution further by helping teams surface information, reduce repetitive tasks, and take action within those workflows. Read more…
How Confusing Bills Stop Patients From Paying. Casey Williams at RevSpring said patients receiving unclear statements many months after a visit are unpleasantly surprised. Not only does this reduce the likelihood of payment; it also harms the relationship with the provider organization. Read more…
What Healthcare Teams Get Wrong in AI Vendor BAAs. The BAA should be the beginning of operational oversight, not the end of procurement, according to Mat Steinlin at Aptible. Getting it right means knowing like who can access AI prompts and who can receive PHI. Read more…
What is Healthcare Data? Nat Osit tackled this critical question: What it represents, how organizations use it, why a shared understanding of healthcare workflows across business units is essential for extracting value from data, and how it applies to value-based care. Read more…
The Billion-Dollar Opportunity Hiding in Care Plans. Kevin Torf at T2 Group and EZCARE explained how to connect personalized product recommendations from doctors directly to existing fulfillment partners via patient portals – and capture unrealized revenue. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for September 9, 2026: Consultancy HCLTech is looking for a CTO. Read more…
Bonus Features for September 6, 2026: 59% of clinicians say TikTok is the top source of misinformation about GLP-1s; AMA names leader for new Center for Digital Health and AI. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Savista acquired ABW Medical, an ambulatory RCM company serving the non-acute healthcare market.
- Cureety acquired Reimagine Care, an AI-powered oncology care organization.
- Data platform WellStack acquired DeLorean AI, which specializes in predictive analytics, risk stratification, and decision support.
- Patient flow software maker LeanTaaS acquired Aidin, a care transition and referral platform.
- AI-driven drug discovery platform Forus announced $150 million in Series C financing.
- Arintra announced a $25 million Series B funding round; the company makes autonomous RCM coding tools.
- Agentic GRC and security platform HelmGuard announced a $7.3 million seed round.
- Clinical technology performance platform PartsSource announced a strategic investment from Memorial Hermann Health System.
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