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.
Realizing the Benefits of AI Medical Scribes. Jason Kuder at upstate New York’s Oak Orchard Health Center talked to John Lynn about providers saving several minutes per encounter with Sunoh.ai. They’re also closing out their clinical notes faster, which means claims can be submitted right away. Read more…
How to Spur Investment in Healthcare Security. John interviewed Mike Fuhrman at Omega Systems, which recently issued a report noting 87% of healthcare organizations have been the victim of a cyberattack. MSPs can help, but it all starts with knowing what IT vulnerabilities exist. Read more…
HFMA 2025: Insights From Financial Management Leaders – and a Humanoid. Not surprisingly, this year’s event focused on AI’s role in revenue cycle automation, particularly when it comes to achieving ROI. John also interviewed a robot for the first time. (He danced with the robot, too. I don’t know if that was a first.) Read more…
RCM Takeaways From 3 Health Systems. At an HFMA 2025 session featuring Mass General Brigham, MultiCare Health System, and Prisma Health, John learned about the struggle to balance growth and cost containment, as well as realizing that more queries isn’t necessarily better. Read more…
A Case Study in Clinical Documentation Improvement. Also at HFMA 2025, John took in a session with Monument Health and Nordic Global that emphasized expanding the scope of CDI while ensuring it would have a meaningful revenue impact for the organization. Read more…
High Resolution and Multiuse Capabilities Optimize Radiologist Displays. Healthcare IT Today caught up with Albert Xthona at Barco, who demonstrated why high resolution means radiologists can view a large image without breaking it up, or track multiple images in the same display. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: A Universal Patient Record. Danny Liberman chatted with Troy Astorino at PicnicHealth about transforming medical records into meaningful data. Read more…
Can Healthcare Afford to Ignore Cybersecurity? Cyberattacks lead to a 35% increase in mortality rates. Organizations can minimize this impact by stopping and containing breaches. That’s a matter of microsegmentation, according to Dr. Guru Gurushankar at ColorTokens. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for July 2, 2025: A few health information management roles, plus positions focused on privacy and compliance. Read more…
Bonus Features for June 29, 2025: More than 54% of patients support AI in the exam room and for health recommendations, but half of health IT pros say AI answers need “much improvement.” Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- AI-driven care management vendor Ellipsis Health closed a $45 million Series A funding round.
- Operations software vendor Autonomize AI raised $28 million in Series A funding.
- Amperos Health secured a $4.2M seed funding round and launched Amanda, which automates claims review and collection.
- Rehabilitative care software vendor Net Health acquired Limber Health, which makes digital health tools focused on musculoskeletal care.
- Clinical surveillance vendor AirStrip acquired Fifth Eye, the developer of FDA-cleared software that predicts poor blood flow before it becomes apparent in vital signs.
- H1 acquired Veda, bringing together two provider data platforms.
- MRO acquired Q-Centrix, bringing together two clinical data platforms.
- Behavioral health technology services company Lucet acquired Emcara Health, which provides home-based care to clinically complex and high-risk populations.
- Payer marketplace MacroHealth acquired Foundational Pharmacy Strategies, which develops products for benefit advisors and employer groups.
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