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.
Creative Training Ideas and Going Beyond Pilot Purgatory. At the KLAS Arch Collaborative Summit, John Lynn focused on two topics: How to get more out of staff education and also get pilots past the dreaded phase of unclear ROI or limited benefits to the organization. Read more…
Predicting Ambient Clinical Voice and AI Medical Scribes – in 2006. As John began reminiscing on the 20th anniversary of Healthcare IT Today, he looked back at a 2006 post about using video cameras to document doctor’s visits – a concept he fleshed out a bit further a decade later once NLP technology had started to emerge. Read more…
Does Healthcare Need to Build a New Internet for AI Agents? John unpacked the HFMA keynote from Zack Kass, who said AI agents don’t use websites the same way humans do – they need data, not a nice UI – and wondered if healthcare, and its tendency to keep data in walled gardens, is ready to meet the needs of the day. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Being the Anti-CRO. Meri Beckwith at Lindus Health joined Danny Liberman to talk about fixing broken clinical trial processes with fixed-cost, milestone-based contracts. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Fantasy Technology Draft. In time for fantasy football season, Colin Hung and John pick their favorite, most inventive, and most impactful healthcare technology. Read more…
Healthcare and the Robotics Revolution: Bridging the Trust Gap. Amid labor shortages, why has healthcare been reluctant to embrace robotics? The industry needs to gain a deeper trust in emerging technology before the benefits can become more widespread, said Winston Leung at BlackBerry division QNX. Read more…
Are Virtual Patients the Next Frontier in Health IT? Since half of clinical trial sites fail to enroll more than two patients, Thomas Kluz at Niterra Ventures suggested virtual patients can help fill key gaps, particularly in early-phase evaluations or for therapies targeting rare diseases. Read more…
Learning to Fish in Data Lakes. While they hold potential treasure troves of diverse types of information, data lakes must be paired with business intelligence to generate meaningful insights, according to Sujay Jadhav at Verana Health. Read more…
How Agentic AI Helpa Health Plans Solve Prior Authorization. Robert Laumeyer at Availity described how AI agents working independently and simultaneously to complete related tasks can generate approvals in seconds, giving providers answers at the point of care. Read more…
AI’s Role in Making Healthcare Accessible to All. AI is helping to make diagnostics available everywhere by reading medical images and helping clinicians interpret them, particularly in rural and underserved areas, according to Srinivas Iyengar at Happiest Minds. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for July 23, 2025: Roles in privacy, compliance, and project coordination. Read more…
Bonus Features for July 20, 2025: 66% of patients still schedule appointments over the phone; meanwhile, 48% of CIOs say AI capabilities should be embedded in EHRs. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Clinical workflow vendor Tandem Health raised $50 million in Series A funding.
- Medical records analysis and processing startup MediScan secured $1.4 million in funding.
- RCM vendor VisiQuate acquired Etyon, which makes machine learning models for RCM.
- Nordic Capital has become the majority owner of Arcadia, a healthcare data platform.
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