Weekly Roundup – April 12, 2025

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.

Today’s Opportunities for AI Agents in Healthcare. Jason Warrelmann at UiPath and Harsh Singh and Vinit Singhal at Genzeon joined John Lynn to talk about helping healthcare organizations uncover the 60% of tasks with automation potential. Read more…

Helping Hospitals See Data-Driven Results Faster. Colin Hung chatted with Nora Lissy and James Kirtley at Dimensional Insight about the importance of making data accessible and reliable, as well as valuable for the entire organization. Read more…

All You Need for Managing Provider Privileges. Scott Turkow and Alden Mitchell at Medallion talked to Brittany Quemby about how to save time during the credentialing and follow-up process with automation for data intake and administrative processes. Read more…

Life Sciences Today Podcast: Drug Discovery With AI and Deep Tech. Danny Liberman sat down with Matti Gill at AION Labs to discuss how small, focused teams are likely to lead the way in shaping the future of medicine. Read more…

CIO Podcast: California Laws and Regulations. David T. Ford at the California Medical Association joined John to discuss the Golden State’s efforts to regulate AI use and segment certain types of EHR data. Will other states, or the feds, plan to follow suit? Read more…

Interoperability’s Role in Supporting Compassionate Care. Ladd Wiley at Epic, and Dr. Michael Burns at Michigan Medicine described the role of automated data exchange between state governments and healthcare organizations to help families who have lost a loved one. Read more…

The Limits of HIPAA Auditing – and What Needs to Change. OCR typically only assesses eight out of 180 HIPAA provisions during audits, noted Jay Trinckes at Thoropass. That puts the onus on IT teams to take the lead in closing compliance gaps. Read more…

Why the Healthcare Ecosystem Needs Comprehensive Cybersecurity. Every healthcare stakeholder needs to adopt HIPAA-compliant risk analyses and NIST cybersecurity frameworks, said Andrew Mahler at Clearwater. Vendor oversight and device security matter, too. Read more…

How to Keep Virtual Appointments Secure. Telemedicine is susceptible to cybersecurity threats such as inadequate authentication, social engineering, and unencrypted communication. John Funk at SevenAtoms outlined the key steps to improving security for virtual care. Read more…

Transforming Healthcare With AI and Deviceless RPM. Darren Challender at Hitachi Digital Services provided a recap of a Hitachi webinar highlighting how aggregating data from smartphones makes remote monitoring more accessible and can enhance care management. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 9, 2025: Many roles in health information management and clinical quality. Read more…

Bonus Features for April 6, 2025: 81% of patients with chronic conditions want pharma to help them get care and medication, plus 63% of patients’ bills are higher than initial cost estimates. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Knack RCM acquired PPM Partners, which provides anesthesia billing and practice management services.
• Musculoskeletal care provider Vori Health secured $53 million in Series B funding.
• AI clinician assistant Freed raised $30 million in Series A funding.
• Lab and wearable patient data platform Junction raised $18 million in Series A funding.

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