Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – March 5, 2025 – News from Epic, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce, plus 33 more stories

Welcome to a special edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more from HIMSS25 in Las Vegas. Because it’s such a busy week for the entire industry, we want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

Partnerships

• Acute virtual care vendor AvaSure launched Virtual Care Assistant, powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and NVIDIA.
• Decision support platform Avo is now integrated with Juno Health‘s EHR system.
• Fujifilm Healthcare is partnering with Tiger Health Technology to improve PACS workflows in pathology. Also, Fujifilm entered a strategic agreement with Amazon Web Services. Finally, Hackensack Meridian Health expanded its deployment of Fujifilm across 18 hospitals
• The customer experience and AI toolset from League has been integrated with Arcadia‘s longitudinal patient record to help provide data-driven recommendations.
• Data and analytics vendor MedeAnalytics partnered with Holon Solutions to develop Integrated Patient Insights.
• Imaging and PACS vendor RamSoft is integrating with NewVue.ai‘s EmpowerSuite, which helps automate radiology workflows.
• Customer experience vendor Talkdesk introduced Talkdesk AI Agents for Healthcare.
• Wolters Kluwer Health’s UpToDate is now accessible within Suki Assistant, the AI voice tool from Suki. In addition, Wolters Kluwer Health integrated UpToDate with the healthcare agent service in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Product News

• Interoperability vendor 1upHealth updated its 1up platform with a data lakehouse architecture.
• Altera Digital Health unveiled ambient listening AI tools built for Sunrise, Paragon Denali, and TouchWorks EHR.
• Clearwater updated its Security Operations Center Portal and IRM|Analysis software with additional threat intelligence and threat visualizations.
• CloudWave announced enhancements to its Cybersecurity as a Service and Medical Device Security offerings, built on Google Security Operations.
• Commvault cyber resilience and recovery technologies are now available for leading EHR systems such as Epic and MEDITECH.
• Epic announced Cosnome, which integrates genomic sequencing data into Cosmos, and teased future developments in generative AI, ERP, and clinical trial planning.
• Ergotron released RhythmConnect and Mosaic; the former is fleet management software and the latter supports custom workstation cart configurations.
• GE HealthCare announced Genesis, a portfolio of cloud enterprise imaging SaaS solutions.
• Google Cloud announced new generative AI capabilities in Vertex AI Search for healthcare, which can now search tables, charts, and diagrams.
• Real-time location service vendor Kontakt.io launched Kio Agents, an AI platform.
• MEDITECH introduced Expanse Outreach Portal to help hospitals connect to nursing homes, urgent care centers, and doctor’s offices to process lab services. Also, MEDITECH demonstrated the integration of Expanse Genomics and GenomOncology’s Precision Oncology Platform. Finally, MEDITECH announced workflow advancements to Traverse Exchange.
• Data archiving and interoperability vendor MediQuant announced DataArk fully supports USCDI Version 5.
• Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Dragon Copilot, an AI assistant for clinical workflows that couples voice dictation (DMO) with ambient listening (DAX). IT infrastructure vendor Kyndryl is supporting adoption and deployment of Microsoft Dragon Copilot.
• NextGen Healthcare updated NextGen Mobile with voice enablement, AI, and automation capabilities.
• Workflow automation vendor Notable updated Flow Builder with low-code automation building capabilities as well as role-based access controls.
• Peerbridge Health unveiled Cor MDx, a wearable for full-spectrum cardiac monitoring.
• Patient engagement and payment vendor RevSpring launched SeatMate, a virtual agent for customer service.
• Salesforce announced Agentforce for Health, a variety of AI agents for care coordination, customer service, disease surveillance, and clinical trials.
• Enterprise imaging vendor ScImage unveiled the PICOM365 Universal AI Connectivity Foundation for integrating AI tools.
• Stryker launched Sync Badge, a wearable communication device.
• Operations software vendor symplr launched symplrAI Evidence Analysis, built on Amazon Web Services.
• Teladoc Health announced updates to Prism focused on coordinating care with digital health partners and community care providers.
• Patient relationship management vendor TeleVox released SMART Agent, a virtual assistant.
• TigerConnect announced TigerConnect Pre-Hospital, which helps streamline communications between EMS and the emergency department.
• Workflow automation vendor Zebra Technologies demonstrated Moxi, an autonomous delivery robot, the new HC25 and HC55 line of mobile computers, as well as new wristbands and badges.
• Zoom unveiled the public beta of Zoom Workplace for Clinicians, which features clinical noted powered by a previously announced partnership with Suki.

Company News

• Research from Absolute Security found 15% of PCs in healthcare environments are either missing or have non-compliant security and risk controls.
• Contactless palm-scanning identity authentication services Amazon One is being rolled out at NYU Langone Health.
• Rush University System for Health expanded its deployment of Suki across 28 specialties.

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