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.
A Deep Dive Into the Announcements at Epic UGM 2025. Epic held their annual UGM meeting this week. John Lynn lists out and analyzes the announcements made during the Cool Stuff keynote. Read more…
LogicSource Brings Purchase Optimization to Health Care. John Lynn interviewed Dave Pennino, Founder and CEO at LogicSource, to talk about the services they offer to help you cut costs. With the cost of everything rising, it is important to be efficient in your spending. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Electronic Benefit Verification with Surescripts. John Lynn sits down with Andrea Douglas, Director Business Development Life Sciences at Surescripts, to discuss how electronic benefit verification works, its challenges, the impact it has on patients, and more. Read more…
FaceTec Introduces a Whole New Dimension into Authentication and Security. Cyberattacks are on the rise, especially in healthcare, making proper security efforts a top priority. FaceTec is so confident in their face verification security technology, they openly invited people to bypass their system in a Spoof Bounty Program. John Lynn sits down with Jay Meier, Chief Identity Technology Strategist at FaceTec, to learn more about their face verification technology. Read more…
AI in Remote Patient Monitoring: Promise and Precaution. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been using AI for a long time, primarily in a simpler, rules-based protocol way. But now that AI is rapidly advancing and being adopted in healthcare, Daniel Tashnek, Co-Founder of Prevounce Health, says that “…RPM sits at the center of a fascinating evolution that promises both tremendous opportunity and significant responsibility.” Read more…
How We Are Fighting HIV Infection Using AI. HIV infection prevention has thankfully come a long way in the past decade. Despite this, however, the rate of HIV infections has not appreciably dropped. Jacqueline Naeem, MD, Vice President of Clinical and Social Health at PCCI, details how the use of AI can aid in this effort. Read more…
How Nurses Can Build and Sustain Trust in Healthcare AI. The best way to get people to adopt and trust new technologies is by including them from the very beginning. This allows people the chance to freely express what they need help with and how the technology is functioning. Ali Morin, MSN, RN, NI-BC, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at symplr, explains how this method helps nurses build and sustain trust in the upcoming AI solutions. Read more…
Perspective From UGM: What Epic’s Launch of AI-Native Scribing Means for Health Systems and the Startups that Serve Them. Among many other announcements made at this week’s UGM conference, Epic announced the development of their native AI-scribe. Yair Saperstein, MD MPH, Co-Founder and CEO at Avo, shares his perspective on the announcement as someone who is the founder and CEO of an AI healthcare startup that includes AI-scribing and integrates with Epic. Read more…
Why Attackers Are Still Phishing for Patient Data in Healthcare. Nearly 30 million health records were compromised in major data breaches during the first 6 months of 2025. We’ve accomplished a lot in terms of cybersecurity frameworks, but we’re still struggling to close basic security gaps. Gerasim Hovhannisyan, CEO at EasyDMARC, explains what areas are often overlooked and how to mend that. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Telehealth’s Next Chapter. For the 173rd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, I join John Lynn to analyze the current state and usage of telehealth as well as predict what is in store for telehealth moving forward. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for August 20, 2025: Roles in privacy and public health, plus Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) seeks Healthcare Compliance Manager. Read more…
Bonus Features for August 17, 2025: 26% of healthcare IT’s spending is on AI; 60% of seniors comfortable with digital payments for healthcare. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Labguru and Titan software rebrand as Cenevo, bringing together Labguru and Mosaic.
- Working on undiagnosed heart failure at scale, Ultromics lands $55M series C.
- MAGENTIQ EYE secures Series A investment led by aMoon, allowing innovation acceleration and increased market access for their AI-powered colonoscopy solution.
- 4DMedical, a global leader in respiratory imaging technology, receives a $10M investment from ProMedicus.
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