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.
Balancing Data Accessibility and Interoperability With Privacy and Security. The best strategies for making this happen, according to the Healthcare IT Today community, include building security natively into interoperability, adopting a multifaceted and contextual approach to access, and strengthening governance. Read more…
Connecting athenaOne to Epic and Bringing Claude AI to the Patient Portal. At athenahealth’s uder group meeting, Colin Hung learned four ways athenahealth is partnering with Epic, as well as how athenaOne will let patients use Claude to query their own records. Read more…
Improving Rural Care With Technology and New Funding. Jim Poor and Kristie Meachum at Arkansas-based Unity Health chatted with John Lynn about unifying on a single cloud-based EHR (MEDITECH) and focusing on integrating the right scheduling, documentation, and telehealth tools with it. Read more…
How Autonomous AI Is Transforming Healthcare RCM. John talked to Dr. Nirav Kamdar at AKASA, along with Nick Judd at Cleveland Clinic and Stacey D. Bui at Mayo Clinic, about where AI is making the most impact and when healthcare will see autonomous RCM solutions. Read more…
Putting AI Deployment Under the Microscope. At HIMSS Eastern Canada 2026, Colin learned the dangers of rushing technology deployments without the critical human and organizational change management that’s required for success. Read more…
Preparing for the OBBBA Revenue Cycle Shockwave. At Experian Health’s user group meeting, Colin learned about the administrative challenges providers can expect when it comes to verifying Medicaid eligibility, both when appointments are booked and when they’re days away. Read more…
How Universal Community Health Center Reduced Abandoned Calls. Dr. Edgar A. Chavez, founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based FQHC, talked to John about using healow Genie to answer all incoming calls in both English and Spanish. Just 4% of calls are abandoned now, and wait times are beloe 40 seconds. Read more…
Using AI to Build, Troubleshoot, and Optimize Healthcare Integrations. John sat down with Brandy Mason at Qventus and Corinne Pellows at Rhapsody to learn about AI’s role in helping integration teams work more efficiently, whether it’s catching coding errors or fixing performance issues. Read more…
What Data Residency Laws Teach About EHR Access. Access control answers who can open a record and what they can do inside a system, but residency answers where data is stored and processed, and whether it may leave a jurisdiction, said Mohammad Alsaadany at BioNixus. Read more…
The Executive Guide to Scaling Agentic AI in Healthcare. AI should start with one use case built on a platform where agents work as a team and share the same safeguards, Michael Serbinis at League said. That way, the next launch doesn’t start from scratch. Read more…
Is Your Patient Data Ready for Healthcare AI? Bob Stanley at Melissa unpacked how optimized processes can ensure end-to-end data quality, since trustworthy patient records are the hidden infrastructure behind reliable AI. Read more…
Access to Your Own Records Shouldn’t Be a Fight. Individual Access Services under TEFCA makes it possible to retrieve records attached to the provider that made them – and give patients access to them, noted James Bateman at Marble. Read more…
Small Practices Need Denial Data Before They Add Billing Staff. Instead, according to Ameet Sharma at Synergy Business Solutions, practices should ask whether the same preventable errors are generating work every month. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for November 11, 2026: Multiple C-level positions at provider organizations. Read more…
Bonus Features for November 8, 2026: 48% of Americans have used AI to review their health insurance options; 68% would independently verify AI-generated medication details. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Patient flow software company LeanTaaS acquired LookDeep Health, maker of computer vision monitoring technology.
- RCM automation company VisiQuate acquired Artiva HCx from Finvi.
- XRHealth acquired living brain, maker of a visual therapeutic environment for cognitive rehabilitation.
- Equiti acquired Lexi, a healthcare AI language interpretation company.
- Peer-to-peer physician learning community Vumedi announced a $104 million Series B growth investment.
- Clinical AI company Heidi closed a $100 million Series C funding round and secured a $240 million growth investment.
- Nurse-owned primary care practice Duet announced a $15 million Series A funding round.
- Medication access and adherence TailorMed secured a majority investment.
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