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.
Priming the Ambient AI Medical Scribe. John Lynn talked to Dr. Connor Yost at Skriber about why physicians benefit from training and guidance on using AI scribes – namely, so they can prepare the scribe to create a note of “astronomically higher” quality. Read more…
Making Medication Gaps Visible. Dr. Lynne Nowak at Surescripts shared with Colin Hung the company’s efforts to help health systems know when patients have started a new therapy – or send notifications that trigger interventions if prescriptions haven’t bene picked up. Read more…
Delivering Clarity in Claims and Reimbursement. Puneet Maheshwari at Optum Real joined John to discuss the value proposition for enabling payer-provider transparency, which includes reduced inbound call volume as well as fewer errors in reimbursement submissions. Read more…
How to Get Leadership Buy-In to Support Security and Privacy Efforts. The Healthcare IT Today community said framing security as a growth enabler and patient safety issue, using a combination of hard data and anecdotal evidence, is critical for making a compelling case. Read more…
Collaborating to Eliminate Errors in Member Enrollment. John sat down with Maynd Jolly at enGen, and Matt Gierhart at IBM to learn about enGen enRoll, which can save time by automatically correcting errors in member enrollment files and filling gaps in related data sets. Read more…
Inside NextGen’s Mission Control Moment. Colin attended the company’s user group meeting, where NextGen touted an agentic AI “mission” control for clinicians and reported on interoperability progress through its Kno2 QHIN partnership. Read more…
Why APIs Won the Day for Sound Physicians’ Rapid Pivot. Dria McCluskey from the Tennessee-based B2B specialty provider and Venky Chellappa at CharmHealth talked to Colin about using APIs to provide flexibility and adaptability for a unique EHR implementation. Read more…
How Technology Drives EHR Innovation in Prescription Management. Dr. Colin Banas and Drew Hunsinger at DrFirst joined John to explain why patient expectations drive change to the medication journey more than any set of regulations. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Pivoting From Math to Medicine. Danny Lieberman caught up with Yann Gaston-Mathé at Itkos, which is using AI to design novel compounds and robots to automatically synthesize them up to 100 at a time, compared to just 2 using traditional manual processes. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Contradictions in Healthcare. John and Colin unpack some of the industry’s biggest contradictions, such as the push for interoperability amid the presence of data silos and the implementation of chatbots when everyone advocates for personalization. Read more…
Breaking Drug Shortage Cycles With Predictive Analytics. Models can forecast 60% of drug shortages an average of 52 days before federal agencies identify them, noted Dr. AJ Rivosecchi at Bluesight. The next step? Linking shortages to hospital drug inventory and acting on what poses the biggest risk to patients. Read more…
Insight, Not Just Data, Will Decide TEAM Winners. The Transitional Episode-based Advanced Model kicks off next year. Ross Armstrong at Bamboo Health and Radial CEO Thaddeus Fulford-Jones said real-time intelligence and clinical decision support will be critical to keeping patients on course. Read more…
The Power of Cybersecurity Dashboards in Modern Risk Management. Since attack surfaces extend across networks, cloud platforms, devices, and third-party vendors, Black Talon Security CEO Gary Salman said organizations need end-to-end security visibility – and the ability to take action. Read more…
Reducing Pharma’s Launch Failure Rate. Nearly 3 in 4 drug launches fail to meet revenue goals, and an incomplete understanding of the market is largely to blame. Removing data silos is a key starting point, according to Within3 CEO Lance Hill – but not just any AI tool will do. Read more…
Health Plans Cannot Afford to Overlook NEMT Compliance. Non-emergency medical transport increases access to care, but NEMT poses risks thanks to manual workflows and unencrypted data sharing. Plans need partners that maintain HITRUST and SOC certification, among other security measures, said Michelle Moreno at Kinetik. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for November 12, 2025: Multiple health systems seek a VP or Senior Director of IT. Read more…
Bonus Features for November 9, 2025: 67% of patients worry insurer use of AI could unfairly deny their care, and 60% of organizations face operational disruptions after a cyberattack. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Administrative automation company Heidi secured $65 million in Series B funding.
- Surgical navigation vendor MediView XR closed a $24 million Series A funding round.
- Voice AI vendor Attuned Intelligence emerged from stealth with $13 million in seed funding.
- Medical imaging data migration startup Datamonk raised $1.9 million in pre-seed funding.
- Qualtrics acquired Press Ganey, the healthcare survey firm, in a $6.75 billion deal.
- RCM vendor Savista acquired the cancer registry services division of ONCO.
- Chartis acquired Healthlink Advisors, a consulting firm focused on improving healthcare delivery and IT operations.
- Fortified Health Security acquired Latitude Information Security, known for risk assessments and third-party risk management.
- Virtual nursing and workforce management platform Collette Health acquired Virtual Nursing Academy.
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