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.
Applying AI to RCM for Improved Efficiency. John Lynn sat down with Access Healthcare CEO Shaji Ravi to unpack why providers need AI solutions to match the power of payers, and how breaking the RCM process into modules and automating each one using AI is an important first step. Read more…
Providing Real-Time Insights Into Financial Performance. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on the tools that make this possible. Answers included business intelligence reporting, healthcare data warehouses, and advanced analytics. Read more…
Gentle Roll-Out Wins Clinician Approval for Documentation Assistant. John caught up with Dr. Joao Fontoura at Florida’s Suncoast Community Health Centers and learned how identifying physician champions to tout the benefits of Sunoh.ai helped pique the curiosity of even the most reluctant clinicians. Read more…
Transforming Healthcare Operations With Innovation and AI. Following up from a conversation at HIMSS25, John caught up with Dell Technologies and AMD to chat about prioritizing AI and digital investments for operational improvement and picking the right KPIs. Read more…
More Video Perspectives From HFMA 2025. Additional insights from the event included how to be less risk-averse, bring RCM and managed care together, and make data-driven decisions. Read more…
A Roadmap for Rural Healthcare Resilience at HFMA. Nordic Global, Microsoft Philanthropies, and Ballad Health discussed why IT should take a backseat to operations during disaster recovery planning, along with how keeping operations moving is critical to revenue flow. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Connecticut’s Life Sciences Industry. Jodie Gillon at BioCT talked to Danny Liberman about bringing together pharma companies, universities, and startups in the Nutmeg State. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Buy or Sell, the Medical AI Assistant Edition. John and Colin Hung debated whether the technology will be more than just a fad – and if AI assistants need to branch out beyond scribe functionality to survive. Read more…
Tech’s Role in Getting People to the Doctor. Health plans need proactive and direct interventions, not passive reminders, to enhance care access, according to Kevin Healy at ReferWell. Intuitive scheduling and personalized care coordination are important steps forward. Read more…
Technology Is Part of the Solution to Our Mental Health Care Crisis. Roy Reichbach at Counslr detailed the value of connecting patients to licensed counselors via text message – particularly late at night, when traditional services are unavailable. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for July 9: Roles in clinical administration and support, as well as IT management and coordination. Read more…
Bonus Features for July 6, 2025: Nearly 2 in 3 patients used their portals in 2024, but only 1 in 3 EHRs capture patient language needs at every encounter. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Practice management automation vendor Prompt Health acquired PredictionHealth, which provides AI tools to rehab therapy.
- Capital Rx acquired Amino Health, a care navigation company.
- Ambient AI vendor Abridge secured $300 million in Series E funding.
- Referral management and conversion company Tennr raised $101 million in Series C funding.
- Physical pain care platform Sword Health announced a $40 million funding round.
- Diabetes management platform Glytec secured a $36 Million growth investment.
- Medical imaging infrastructure company HOPPR secured $31.5 million in Series A funding.
- Medication intelligence vendor Arine raised $30 million in Series C funding.
- Sleep disorder diagnosis vendor EnsoData raised $20 million in Series B funding.
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