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.
The Biggest Healthcare IT Insights From MEDITECH LIVE. John Lynn visited the Boston suburbs (lovely this time of year) for the vendor’s user conference. The main-stage conversation focused on practical uses for AI and the importance of seeing shadow AI as a “demand signal” that users have problems they need to solve. Read more…
What We Heard at the Civitas 2026 Annual Conference. John racked up more even frequent flier miles traveling to the DC suburbs, where he had quite a few conversations about the role of HIEs five years from now. Attendees also talked to him about HIEs and rural health and the interoperability topics that aren’t getting enough attention. Read more…
Advancing Open Source Healthcare Integration. While at the Civitas event, John sat down with Loyd Bittle at Innovar Healthcare to chat about the progress of the open source interoperability project BridgeLink, which now offers a web-based interface and more detailed security alerts. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: What It Takes to Evaluate Systems More Rigorously. Engy Ziedan at Protege talked to Danny Lieberman about the perils of AI models that influence care decisions while still being judged largely by static tests. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Fall Conference Pre-Season Preview. After checking their airline and hotel reservations one more time, John and Colin Hung debated tired topics and surprising topics for fall conference season. Read more…
The AI Model Isn’t Your Advantage. The Knowledge Behind It Is. When it comes to filing workers’ compensation claims, Brian Kenah at EnableComp said anyone can license the model, but no one can license a career’s worth of hard-won judgment that tells a system when a claim is about to fail. Read more…
Measuring the Journey From Download to Active Subscriber. The path from opening an app through registration, identity verification, account validation, and activation comes with many milestones that must be visible on the same dataset. Cristian Ionescu at Witanalytica explained how to make it happen. Read more…
How Healthcare IT Can Transition Platforms Without Downtime. Michael Ohayon at Nexcess explained how clinics can benefit from switching to hyperconverged infrastructure. It starts with migrating from legacy systems without going offline while simplifying long-term management. Read more…
When It’s Time to Migrate Applications, Do You Need the Functionality – or the Data? The cloud has made it too easy to move apps that aren’t really necessary, said Jonathan Cook at Clearsense. If organizations decide it’s the data they really need, the next step is finding its final destination. Read more…
As AI Transforms Healthcare Data, PHI Is a Wall Nobody Talks About. Commercial AI products weren’t designed to handle PHI. BAAs, de-identification, and synthetic data can help organizations work with AI and overcome PHI’s hurdles, according to Tejaswani Veerni at UI Health. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for September 30, 2026: MultiCare Health System seeks a CMIO to be based in Tacoma, Washington. Read more…
Bonus Features for September 27, 2026: Only 32% of senior care teams say tech supports their work, while 70% of health workers say AI makes care feel less human for patients. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Healthcare benefits platform Angle Health announced $600 million in equity financing.
- Patient navigation company DexCare acquired Mila Health, an automated care coordination company.
- Ascend Learning acquired M7 Health, a healthcare staff scheduling and deployment platform.
- Clinical data management company MRO acquired Vyne Medical, provider of data intake and intelligent document processing software.
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