Weekly Roundup – April 26, 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. Key Insights and Perspectives From the […]
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.
Key Insights and Perspectives From the PointClickCare Summit. John Lynn, Colin Hung, and Shereese Maynard all covered the event, which emphasized why connections between acute and post-acute care are more critical than ever and examined the role of AI in supporting post-acute care. Read more…
Supporting FQHCs in Their Move to Epic’s EHR. John sat down with Kaitlyn Nelson at Stoltenberg Consulting and Karen Serrago at Boston-based Community Technology Cooperative to learn about leveraging a shared instance of Epic to cut costs and improve support for FQHCs. Read more…
Improving Interoperability to Enhance Care Coordination and Data Sharing. The Healthcare IT Today community shared insights about leveraging single sign-on, automating workflows, and taking advantage of FHIR APIs to empower data exchange. Read more…
The Hidden Cybersecurity Threat Lurking on the Physician’s Desk. Roughly 15% of devices and workstations in healthcare lack proper security controls, Brennen Reynolds at Absolute Security told Colin. His advice? Put security at the hardware level so it can’t be wiped. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Nanodrugs for Treating Acute Spinal Injuries. Danny Liberman connected with Dr. Lior Shaltiel at NurExone to learn how life science companies pursue profitability while doing deep science. Read more…
How Technology Is Humanizing Healthcare. Iain Jewitt at Purple and Percival Kane, Jr., at Cleveland’s University Hospitals described the role of wayfinding and real-time data in creating a more efficient and patient-centric care environment. Read more…
Responding to Healthcare’s Escalating Cybersecurity Problem. Errol Weiss at Health-ISAC outlined the importance of locked-down external access points, data backups, simulation exercises, and information sharing. Read more…
Cybersecurity Failures Put Millions of Patients at Risk. Amid ransomware threats, one of the quickest wins for providers is enabling multi-factor authentication and single sign-on, according to Bridget O’Connor at Fortalice Solutions. The future, meanwhile, may lie in post-quantum encryption. Read more…
How Telemedicine Is Revolutionizing Post-Acute Care. Poor proper post-acute care support increases readmissions and complicates recovery. Telemedicine makes rehab more accessible, flexible, and affordable, explained Lesley Barton at Bunzl & AMHC. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 23, 2025: Roles in cybersecurity, analytics, and population health. Read more…
Bonus Features for April 20, 2025: 80% of nursing leaders piloting new care models; HR departments in healthcare uses AI to screen applications 25% more than other industries. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Clinical intelligence vendor Navina secured $55 million in Series C funding.
- RCM vendor VisiQuate acquired Rotera, which makes agentic AI tools for financial operations.
- Remote virtual clinic vendor UniDoc Health will acquire AGNES Connect software from AMD Telemedicine.
- RCM vendor Infinx acquired Glidian, which automates prior authorization processes.
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