Weekly Roundup – June 21, 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. How Straight Through Processing Is Revolutionizing […]
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.
How Straight Through Processing Is Revolutionizing Healthcare Workflows. Kevin Hodak at Concord Technologies shared insights about the benefits of automating the steps where staff touch data for the first time – whether it’s a fax, an email, or a scanned document. Read more…
How to Ensure Patient Data Security and Build Trust. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community for advice on making this happen. Answers included multifactor authentication, routing security audits, transparent security policies, and ongoing training. Read more…
AI, Patient Engagement, and the New Era of Imaging Informatics. At SIIM 2025, John Lynn took in a panel discussion about helping both patients and radiologists interpret images – the former to be more educated when they come to an appointment, the latter to better serve patients. Read more…
Using AI Scribes to Increase Productivity and Reduce Burnout. Kimberly Ferguson at Central Virginia Health Services told John how the organization analyzed providers’ use of “pajama time” and recommended Sunoh.ai to help them spend less time on documentation. Read more…
How Generative AI Makes Medical Necessity Reviews More Efficient. John talked to Heather Wagner at Beacon Health System and Wendy Reynolds at Xsolis about digitizing utilization review and streamlining medical necessity review to free up time for nursing staff. Read more…
Canadian Health IT Gets Real: Progress Over Posturing at eHealth 2025. From Toronto, Colin Hung heard real talk about sharing patient data and implementing AI scribes. The event was more substance than style, in other words. Read more…
A Strategic Overview of the Mayo Clinic Platform. John explores how the platform’s Solutions Studio supports the advancement and integration of digital health solutions by assessing the accuracy of AI models and integrating them into existing clinical workflows. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Medical Intelligence. For this episode, Danny Liberman connected with Dipanwita Das at Sorcero to chat about tracking and mitigating how side effects can impact patient adherence. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Clinical Documentation Improvement. Dr. Faisal Hussain at Wellstar Health System joined John to discuss whether RCM or clinical quality is the bigger driver of CDI adoption, as well as how to centralize CDI across a growing healthcare enterprise. Read more…
How to Maintain a HIPAA-Compliant EHR in 2025. Kelly Goolsby at Liquid Web explained the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards today’s EHRs needs, as well as the importance of third-party risk oversight, endpoint management, and more for security best practices. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for June 18, 2025: Roles targeting clinical quality, patient access, and privacy. Read more…
Bonus Features for June 15, 2025: 2 in 3 orgs use outdated tech to manage IoT and medical devices, while less than 30% of orgs ready for AI-driven cyberattacks. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Utilization management workflow vendor Cohere Health raised $90 million in Series C funding.
- AI assistant Nabla raised $70 million in Series C funding.
- Mental health measurement company Brooklyn Health raised $6.5 million in seed funding.
- Datavant acquired Aetion, a real-world evidence platform.
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