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.
Key Takeaways from the Oracle Health & Life Sciences Summit. Reporting from Orlando, Colin Hung summarized several notable announcements from Seema Verma and other Oracle executives, including its push to apply what works in other regulated industries to create a secure, compliant cloud foundation in healthcare. Read more…
How to Retain Consumers and Provide Personalized Experiences Using Analytics and Engagement Tools. Recommendations from the Healthcare IT Today community included reducing friction, optimizing content, measuring engagement, and reinforcing clinical relationships. Read more…
Using AI to Transform Healthcare Workflow Orchestration. Guillaume Caste at PerfectServe sat down with John Lynn to outline the company’s transition to AI-native products that relieve busy staff of tasks that don’t need attention from a human to be resolved. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Enabling Stroke Survivors. Danny Lieberman caught up with Jennifer Ernst at Reach Neuro, which is developing solutions that help stroke survivors regain hand, arm, and shoulder movement within days. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Executive Roles. Saad Chaudhry at Evergreen Healthcare Partners joined John to talk about why more CIOs don’t transition to the CEO role, along with the differences between being a business leader and a tech leader. Read more…
An EHR Access Governance Checklist for External RCM and Billing Teams. Arun Anandhan at InfoHub Consultancy Services outlined how to set boundaries with RCM support partners about user access, data flow, reporting requirements, and operating models. Read more…
The Cost of Convenience: Why Healthcare Payments Need Intelligent Protection. Legacy fraud detection tools were not built for a constantly changing payment environment. AI-powered fraud prevention can make the experience feel seamless and secure, according to Saurabh Joshi at CSG Forte. Read more…
Beyond Data Connectivity: Orchestration Is the Future of Data Optimization. While connectivity asks whether the message arrived, Gurpreet (G.P.) Singh at ELLKAY said orchestration determines whether the right thing happened once the data was delivered. That makes coordinated care possible. Read more…
AI Governance Represents the New Digital Divide. Dr. Katherine W. Eisenberg at EBSCO noted that the health systems least likely to catch errors in AI models often serve the patients most likely to be affected. External oversight and standards are the most effective remedies. Read more…
What Healthcare AI Needs Before It Learns From Yesterday’s Data. Heather Fricke at Frick-E Energy described how AI system can faithfully learn patterns while completely misunderstanding the reason, such as why certain patient populations aren’t seeing specialists or getting follow-ups. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for September 23, 2026: Stanford University School of Medicine seeks a CIO. Read more…
Bonus Features for September 20, 2026: New executives at Cotiviti, Notable, and Zelis. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Hello Patient acquired Converse Health, an AI workflow automation company built for outpatient medical practices.
- Credentialing and enrollment platform Medallion acquired Andros, an NCQA-certified credentials verification organization.
- Employee health benefits platform Thatch raised $108 million in new funding.
- Patient reported outcomes data platform PatientIQ raised $30 million in Series C funding.
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