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.
Ensuring Privacy, Security, and Compliance in Consumer-Facing Healthcare Applications. The key to making this happen, the Healthcare IT Today community said, is building trust and transparency from the beginning. To do that, privacy has to be a conversation for product teams, not legal teams. Read more…
Healthcare Networks Need Ubiquity More Than Standards. John summarized an article from Brendan Keeler that noted (among other things) why AI bots are overwhelming voice calls and EHR systems and also why standards should be simple if there’s a need for them (which there is). Read more…
Integrating Direct-to-Consumer Solutions With Clinical and Enterprise Systems. As this poses quite the challenge, the Healthcare IT Today community recommended thinking about information flows, resolving identity issues, and ensuring bidirectional connections. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Connecting Humans and Clinical Data. Danny Lieberman talked to Lidia Bernik at MRO about creating value by helping hospitals find patients for clinical trials. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Epic UGM and Health IT Australia. John Lynn went to Wisconsin, and Colin Hung went to Sydney. They discussed the biggest takeaways from Epic and unpacked the status of Australia as an EMR greenfield. Read more…
A Better Health Record Shows More Than What Was Measured. Lisa Zahakos at HEART RESERVE said she always asks clinical leaders a key question: Can a woman and her clinician see what changed over time without having to reconstruct her history at every visit? It starts with shared timelines and patient-reported outcomes. Read more…
Fragmented Communications Are Breaking Care Models. Frontline healthcare workers use an average of 7 communication tools daily. Shifting communication infrastructure from a support function to a strategic enabler means focusing on three priorities for modernization, according to Luiz Domingos at Mitel. Read more…
Blood Labeling Safety When Systems Are Down. Jeff Dragoo at Digi-Trax noted that safe blood-related workflows depend on cross-functional collaboration, not just technology. That means placing an emphasis on emergency preparedness and contingency plans. Read more…
Modernizing the Front End of Healthcare. According to Thomas Urie at FormAssembly, AI agents present an opportunity to move beyond simply digitizing existing workflows and begin redesigning them. Here, accessibility presents the greatest opportunity. Read more…
The Massive Blind Spot in Healthcare Language Access. Missing seemingly insignificant interactions has a cumulative effect for patients who don’t speak English, noted Jeffrey J. Munks at LanguageLine and Jeff Burrow at 3Birds Strategy. The answer: Immediately accessible translation through handheld devices. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for September 16, 2026: Multiple roles in privacy and cybersecurity. Read more…
Bonus Features for September 13, 2026: More than 60% of healthcare orgs report employees use shadow AI tools; 48% of orgs say document delays often negatively impact patient care. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Investment firm Francisco Partners acquired Weave Communications, a patient engagement and payments platform.
- Musculoskeletal technology company Globus Medical acquired Higgs Boson Health, a digital healthcare experience company.
- Abridge acquired Altrina, which has built AI agents for automating EHR workflows.
- Hinge Health acquired Cylinder Health, a virtual-first digestive care company.
- Medical imaging network Scan.com closed $220 million in combined equity and debt financing.
- Oncology care company Thyme Care announced $125 million in Series E financing.
- Senior living technology provider Inspiren raised $70 million in Series C funding.
- AI platform Verily Health received investment support from NVIDIA.
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