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.
Inside Epic’s Push to Help Customers Build Their Own AI Agents. John Lynn sat down with Derek De Young. He discussed the approach of continuous improvement for Epic Agent Factory, which helps customers make the most of nearly 130 AI features in Epic and gets close to 60 enhancements per week. Read more…
Healthcare Needs Coordinated Infrastructure, Not More Point Solutions. John connected with Cotivity CEO Ric Sinclair, who talked about embedding intelligence in financial and clinical processes “where decisions actually happen” to avoid denials, appeals, and payer-provider friction. Read more…
Real-World Tactics for Women in Health IT Leadership. Colin Hung talked to InventiveX CEO Anita Ghose about improving professional development by focusing on immediate, practical application to build a dedicated leadership pipeline at a time when half of Australian women in the tech workforce leave by 35. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: A Simple Idea That Can’t Be Solved with Brute Force. Sandy Leonard at Arcadia chatted with Danny Lieberman about how real-world data and evidence create value for healthcare providers. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: What’s Holding Healthcare AI Back? John posed this question to Rhapsody CEO Sagnik Bhattacharya, who addressed issues such as scaling pilots and failing to focus on infrastructure and operational readiness. Read more…
Addressing Infrastructure Gaps and Small Margins at Rural Hospitals. Rural healthcare’s survival depends on higher-margin lines of revenue, John Tonthat at Cellhub said. A key part of the fix is models of home care that can share a common infrastructure, including telehealth and remote clinical operations. Read more…
Modernizing Healthcare Data Requires More Than a New CRM. There are clear signs that that a healthcare IT environment is running legacy database practices underneath a genuinely modern CRM, according to Mohammed Omer Shakeel Ahmed. Read more…
Making Legacy Data More Usable at the Point of Care. If data isn’t surfaced within the EHR, clinicians may not realize it’s there, noted Brian Liddell at Harmony Healthcare IT. Fortunately, improving access to legacy data doesn’t necessarily require broad system changes. Read more…
CISA’s Patch Priority Lesson for Healthcare. David Montoya at Paessler GmbH unpacked a recent directive from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that said to stop treating all vulnerabilities equally and instead triage by risk. Read more…
The Next Era of Payment Integrity Is Prevention, Not Recovery. Payer-provider friction increasingly friction comes from how payment integrity is operationalized, noted Anne Neal at Availity. The easiest fix is addressing common issues before submission or adjudication. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for September 2, 2026: Optum seeks a CIO for Optum Care at Home, to be based just outside the Twin Cities. Read more…
Bonus Features for August 30, 2026: 1 in 5 Americans Have Left Without Filling a Prescription Due to High Costs, While 88% of Workers Have Worked Through Illness. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Complex care provider Cityblock acquired Homeward Health, a rural care company, and announced $116 million in Series E funding.
- Aligned Marketplace announced $20 million in Series A funding; the company connects self-insured employers to primary care providers.
- RCM vendor R1 acquired Humata Health, which enables AI-powered prior authorizations.
- Specialty care platform Switchboard Health acquired Livara Health, a provider of virtual orthopedics and musculoskeletal care management.
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