Weekly Roundup – June 7, 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. Easing Regulation Through Workflow and Automation. […]
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.
Easing Regulation Through Workflow and Automation. Meghan Mehlberg at Amitech and Michele Goodman at St. Peter’s University Hospital talked to John Lynn about automating the perinatal risk assessment and its 350 fields, which could take 20 minutes or more to fill out. Read more…
Doctors Are Finding Joy Again Thanks to the Right AI Tools. Colin Hung caught up with Dr. Seth Eaton at MedPeds to learn about how AI scribes are improving the clinician mood and helping then catch things they might miss. Read more…
MyHeartRisk Wins $10k from MeldRx FHIR Integration Contest. John interviewed Lim Bing Feng and Calvin Koay at MyHeartRisk, along with Pawan Jindal at Darena Solutions, about how the contest offered a chance to help the startup find an easy way to integrate its AI solution with EHR systems. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Post-Surgical Care. Danny Liberman chatted with Ori Warshavsky at PolyPid about rethinking infection control, post-operative healing, and localized therapeutics. Read more…
CIO Podcast: How the CIO Role Has Evolved. Christopher Kunney at IOTECH Consulting joined John to unpack how tech leaders should be supporting new care delivery models, SDoH, and health equity. Read more…
Healthcare’s Most Pressing Revenue Integrity Issues in the Remote Work Era. A collaborative atmosphere is critical to reducing denials and speeding up time to approval – but that can be difficult to achieve when people supporting different RCM stages work in different places, noted Tanya Sanderson at Xsolis. Read more…
Why Healthcare’s Next AI Push Is About Empowerment. Joy Avery at CipherHealth said healthcare has moved beyond focusing on AI’s technical potential to looking at AI’s role in reducing administrative burdens and unlocking actionable insights, provided the right guardrails are in place. Read more…
Balancing AI Innovation and Rising Cyber Threats. Deepfakes, target phishing, botnets, and other AI-powered threats are reshaping the cybersecurity landscape, said Shane Cox at MorganFranklin Cyber. As a result, security teams must develop advanced forensic capabilities. Read more…
Simplifying the First Steps Into SDoH With AI. While data and AI play in helping organizations address SDoH, organizations need to start with the initiatives that will have the greatest clinical and financial impact, according to Brian Norris at MedeAnalytics. Read more…
How to Combat Physician Burnout With Clinical Decision Support. Today’s primary care providers spend 60% of their time on non-patient-facing tasks. Dr. McKinley Glover, IV, at Optum Insight described the role of automation in augmenting decision support and enabling value-based care. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for June 4, 2025: Positions emphasizing privacy, public and community health, and billing and claims. Read more…
Bonus Features for June 1, 2025: 58% of patients frustrated by prior authorization for medications; meanwhile, Wolters Kluwer Health has a new CEO. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Clinical workflow vendor Aranscia acquired Spesana, maker of patient navigation and oncology decision support tools.
- Clinical trial support vendor PhaseV landed $50 million in Series A funding.
- Care transition platform Kouper emerged from stealth with $10 million in funding.
- Mental health assessment tool Mentaily raised $3 million in Seed round funding.
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