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.
Relieving Sinus Congestion With a Headband. John Lynn connected with Paramesh Gopi at SoundHealth, which makes the SONU headband that sends vibrations to each of the six sinus cavities with effects similar to anti-allergy medications. Read more…
Enhancing Payer-Provider Collaboration to Address Population Health Challenges. How is the Healthcare IT Today community doing this? Unified data platforms, integrate workflows and real-time analytics are some of the most effective strategies. Read more…
Is Your Revenue Cycle a Disaster? John summarized an eBook from TempDev about how to avoid common RCM challenges such as increased denials and mismanaged patient collections. Read more…
Driving Toward N=1 Healthcare. Colin Hung sat down with Mike Serbinis at League, which is helping health systems analyze data to recommend a patient’s next steps. The key is to just get started, he said; AI can work with messy datasets, and there’s no such thing as a perfect dataset. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Predicting Therapeutic Response. Miha Štajdohar at Genialis connected with Danny Lieberman to discuss the benefits of predictive models in cancer treatment. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Digital Messaging. Tom Gillette at Mount Sinai Medical Center joined John to discuss whether interest in digital messaging will keep growing at its post-pandemic pace. They also touch on how to support non-English speaking populations with digital messaging tools. Read more…
Digital Health Is Getting a Reality Check, and That’s a Good Thing. Julien de Salaberry at Galen Growth spelled out how the size and quality of digital health funding deals is rising. That’s s sign the industry is moving away form hype and closer to validated results. Read more…
How Assistive and Adaptive Tools Work Together to Transform Care. Assistive technologies help individuals perform everyday tasks, while adaptive technologies modify existing technology. Both can enable more inclusive and personalized care, according to Roland Mattern at eSight by Gentex. Read more…
How Legacy Data Boosts Efficiency in Cardiac Care. Platforms can help clinicians manage data from implantable cardiac monitors – but only if data integrity issues can be solved prior to implementation, noted Christy Brickers at MURJ. Read more…
Bridging the Gap Between Hospital Data and Medical AI. Benji Meltzer at Gradient Health outlined how data intermediaries take fragmented, real-world data and turn it into something usable, which has clear benefits for care delivery and medical research. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for August 27, 2025: Roles in clinical data management, privacy, and value-based care. Read more…
Bonus Features for August 24, 2025: 71% of patients turn to WebMD post-diagnosis; meanwhile, OptimizeRx makes big changes in its leadership team. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- AI-driven research platform Elion raised $9.3 million in an oversubscribed seed round.
- Healthcare and life sciences communications agency Supreme Group acquired Pivot Design.
- Datavant completed its acquisition of Ontellus, a provider of health records retrieval and claims intelligence.
- Workflow and supply management vendor Capsa Healthcare acquired BlueBin, which provides predictive analytics for supply chain management.
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