Bonus Features – May 18, 2025 – 64% of healthcare orgs expect more value-based care revenue in 2025, 53% of providers report success using AI for clinical documentation, plus 28 more stories

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

Legal News

• Safety technology vendor Canopy was granted a preliminary injunction against Commure. “Evidence indicates Commure used Canopy’s confidential information, gained through the reseller relationship, to improperly build and market its copycat Strongline Pro platform,” Canopy said in a statement.
• Epic is facing a data-blocking lawsuit from CureIS Healthcare, a managed care data reconciliation vendor that alleges anti-competitive behavior and “efforts to monopolize the healthcare IT market.” The lawsuit cites Epic’s similar pending lawsuit from Particle Health regarding payer’s ability to access records in Epic systems.

Studies

• A survey from Innovaccer and NAACOS found 64% of healthcare organizations expect higher revenue from value-based care in 2025. Three in 10 organizations report that at least 25% of their revenue is tied to VBC contracts.
• More than half of providers reported a high degree of success using AI for clinical documentation, according to a paper published in JAMIA. That said, immaturity of AI tools stands as the biggest barrier to adoption.
• Roughly 30% of patient collections are tied up in open payment plans, according to a PayZen report. Of these payment plans, 58% must be paid within 24 months, and 28% must be paid within a year.
• A Netskope report found nearly 70% of generative AI users in healthcare use and send sensitive data to their personal accounts at work.
• Over the last two years, drug expense per adjusted patient day increased 8.4% and medical supply expense per adjusted patient day rose 6.7%, according to the latest report from Strata Decision Technology.

Partnerships

• BeeKeeperAI and cStructure are collaborating to build and train causal AI models for healthcare and life science.
• Creyos is partnering with Redox to embed its cognitive and behavioral health assessments in more than 90 EHR systems.
• L.A. Care Health Plan is working with LANES, the Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services, to share member data with providers and social service agencies via FHIR.
• Data vendors Loopback Analytics and Cornerstone AI are partnering to optimize LOINC accuracy in real-world data sets.
• Virtual women’s health clinic Visana Health joined the Aligned Marketplace network of advanced primary care providers.

Product and Company News

• Home care software provider Homecare Homebase completed a Re-identification Risk Determination for PHI.
• Administrative workflow automation vendor IKS Health achieved HITRUST r2 Recertification for eligibility and benefits verification systems as well as technology infrastructure.
• Intuition Robotics launched its Wellness Coach as part of ElliQ, its AI companion robot.
• Medbridge added motion-capture capabilities to digital musculoskeletal and movement-based medicine platform.
• Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent is now available in Canada.
• Researchers using Veradigm can now surface real-world evidence on GLP-1 receptor agonists.

Sales

• Virtual second opinion provider The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic chose Baton Health to streamline and scale physician credentialing.
• Sanford Health selected Cedar as its patient financial experience offering.
• Arkansas-based Radiology Associates selected Harrison.ai‘s Annalise Critical Care AI.
• Virtual care delivery company Ovatient selected League as the technology behind MyCare Anywhere, its omnichannel patient engagement offering.
• Wisconsin-based behavioral health practice Charis Counseling transitioned to ProsperityEHR.
• Duke Health selected Shields Health for specialty pharmacy management. In addition, Duke Health is implementing Avanade’s Smart AI Governance Engine (SAIGE).

People

• RCM automation vendor Iodine Software appointed Valerie Mondelli as Chief Commercial Officer.
• Post-acute care CRM vendor Trella Health welcomed David Kerr as Chief Technology Officer.
• Analytics vendor eClinical Solutions welcomed Sean Lannan as Chief Financial Officer.
• Multidisciplinary GI clinic Oshi Health appointed Brittany Flanagan as Chief People Officer.
• In-home primary care service provider HarmonyCares made four C-level executive appointments.
• Analytics vendor Inovalon appointed Karly Rowe as President of the Provider Business Unit.

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