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.
Shifting With or Without Permission From the Healthcare System” at Withings. The company’s Antoine Pivron talked to John Lynn about consumer and physician interest in longitudinal monitoring of chronic conditions, even if business models still embrace fee-for-service care. Read more…
Announcements and AI Perspectives at Workday Rising. Many of today’s innovations don’t technically use use generative AI, John learned – but generative AI opened the door for organizations to be more accepting of automations. But are orgs and their users ready for the pace of change? Read more…
Top Telehealth and Virtual Health Voices on LinkedIn. Get to know the health system, vendor, and professional organization leaders explaining trends, policy changes, and the latest research into telehealth outcomes. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Revolutionizing Stroke Recovery. Danny Lieberman sat down with Dr. Leo Petrossian at Kandu, which is developing at-home brain-computer interface therapy for chronic stroke. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Is Healthcare Vulnerable to Runaway AI? John and Colin debated if healthcare is closer to AI-driven adverse events or true interoperability. Read more…
Audit Readiness Is Decided Months Before the First Chart Request Arrives. Readiness results from upstream conversations about how documents are structured, who owns the workflow, and whether key provider relationships already exist, noted Michael Egbert at Sherpas Healthcare Solutions. Read more…
Healthcare Sovereignty Is Overdue, and Patients are Demanding Better. Being granted access to your own data is not the same as having a say in it or the ability to contribute to it, said Jessica Chalk at myStoria. The fix is patient-directed data infrastructure governed by real interoperability standards. Read more…
Patient-Facing AI Must Know When to Call for Help. Healthcare is rolling out patient-facing technology that’s not equipped to answer the questions many patients have, according to Steve Pappas at eGain. AI systems need permission to say “I don’t know” and route patients to a human. Read more…
AI Will Turn Up the Heat on Humanity Before It Destroys Us. James Moade at Accreditation Commission for Health Care said there will be several warning signs that AI is taking over healthcare – namely, that no one knows who owns a decision and AI is acting on behalf of clinical teams. Read more…
A Successful AI Payer Call Should Leave More Than a Transcript. RCM teams still needs to know what the payer actually confirmed, how to verify it, what remains uncertain, and what should happen next, noted Rahul Agrawal at QuickIntell. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for October 14, 2026: OrthoVirginia is looking for a Chief Medical Officer. Read more…
Bonus Features for October 11, 2026: 49% of patients have administered a self-test, and 43% have used an AI chatbot instead of seeing a doctor because of cost concerns. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Physician dataset H1 acquired Defacto Health, which specializes in provider network intelligence.
- L Catterton and Altas Partners acquired a majority stake in Fullscript, a clinical decision support tool, from HGGC and Snapdragon Capital Partners.
- Cardiac remote monitoring company Implicity secured $40 million in equity funding.
- Urgent care EHR company UrgentIQ announced a $15 million Series A growth investment.
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