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 Roundup of Insights and Perspectives from the DirectTrust Conference. In St. Louis, John Lynn heard about why Haven Health failed, how data sharing is progressing from the ASTP/ONC perspective, and why one CISO shuts off access to the health system’s EHR one day each month. Read more…
Redesigning Health Plans From the Ground Up. Dave Chase at Health Rosetta joined John to discuss creating standards for contract language and health plan performance measurement – all in the name of making plans more efficient and better for their employees. Read more…
AI’s Role in Aligning Payers and Providers Around Value-Based Care Models. The Healthcare IT Today community said data integration, population health analytics, billing workflow automation, and clinical decision support are just some of the key AI use cases for supporting VBC. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Faster First-in-Human Medical Device Trials. Danny Lieberman chatted with Julio Martinez-Clark at Bioaccess about accelerating early feasibility studies and first-in-human trials outside the United States. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Are Conferences Still Worth It? John and Colin Hung covered important topics such as how attendee demographics have changed since COVID and whether vendors should approach conferences differently. (Meanwhile, this Massachusetts native wondered whether Foxboro counts as “just outside Boston.”) Read more…
What Sleep Sensing Can Tell Physicians About Mental Health. Sleep sensors can help monitor conditions such as depression and anxiety, and patients benefit from non-obtrusive monitoring offered by radar sensors, said Dr. Jae-Eun Lee at bitsensing. Read more…
Harnessing the Power of Data Retrieval with Custom Language Models. Matt Murren at True North ITG explained why publicly available AI models are risky for healthcare (not to mention siloed) and looked at how organizations can best build private, custom AI models. Read more…
Fixing the Hidden Costs That Undermine Payer Profitability. Hidden inefficiencies can cut into health plan savings, noted Jonathan Jeffress at AMPS. True payment integrity requires precision and clinical expertise at scale so plans can automate policy updates and high-dollar claims reviews. Read more…
5 Hot Topics Not to Miss at the Civitas 2025 Annual Conference. Jolie Ritzo at Civitas Networks for Health outlined how the event will bring together technical experts, community leaders, data scientists, policymakers, patient advocates, and more to shape the future of health care. Read more…
What Healthcare IT Teams Need to Beat Burnout. IT teams get stuck in routine, day-to-day tasks that can consume hours each week when done manually. Workplace management tools can automate tasks such as onboarding, auditing, and patching to give time back to IT, said John Pettit at Promevo. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for August 6, 2025: Roles in clinical quality, community health, EHR training and implementation, and more. Read more…
Bonus Features for August 3, 2025: 79% of hospital staff admit to sharing credentials for shared devices; 47% of Americans put off care due to its cost. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Knowtion Health acquired Switch RCM, which aggregates billing data to help providers identify missed revenue opportunities.
- Medical search and decision support tool OpenEvidence announced a $210 million Series B funding round.
- Clinical AI platform Aidoc announced a $150 million financing round.
- Slingshot AI announced an extension of Series A funding as well as the public launch of Ash, an AI model for mental health.
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