Weekly Roundup – March 1, 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. HIMSS 2025 Preview. Heading to Las […]
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.
HIMSS 2025 Preview. Heading to Las Vegas? This post covers where you can find Healthcare IT Today at HIMSS, from pre-conference events and lunch-and-learn sessions to the all-important #HITsm and Swaay.Health Meetup and Puppy Park. Read more…
ViVE2025 Review: A Simpler AI Melody. Colin Hung’s recap of the happenings in Nashville indicated AI messaging was more realistic and backed up by testimonials and data – a notable change from as recently as a year ago. Read more…
Turning Provider-Payer Tension Into Teamwork With AI. Colin covered a ViVE 2025 session with Xsolis CTO Zach Evans. He discussed the company’s role in helping providers and payers align on the appropriate level of care from the start, which reduces the need for manual reviews and cuts down on denials. Read more…
Revitalizing Data From EHRs, Archives, and the Back Office. Jason Z. Rose and CTO Jonathan Cook at Clearsense talked to John Lynn about helping healthcare organizations manage data as part of a larger strategy to reduce costs, create revenue, and address cyber risk mitigation. Read more…
A Conversation With the Winner in Cleveland Clinic’s AI Scribe Bake-Off. Colin connected with Nikhil Buduma at Ambience to talk about one of the biggest announcements from ViVE. He said Cleveland Clinic chose Ambience because it can handle the unique needs of different specialties and seamlessly fit into existing workflows. Read more…
A Demo of the Latest ElliQ Robot for the Aging Population. John sat down with Dor Skuler at Intuition Robotics for a conversation and a demo, which covers how caregivers benefit from having a robot companion for their older loved ones. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Leading AI Use Cases. Dr. Barry Stein at Hartford HealthCare joined John to discuss how AI is improving customer centricity for the organization and why close collaboration with their vendor (Aidoc) has been critical throughout implementation. Read more…
Collaboration Across the Healthcare Ecosystem Is Key to RCM Success. To handle complex claims, EHR systems must interface effectively with various specialized systems. Ongoing communication, process standardization, and performance monitoring all help, said Frank Forte at EnableComp. Read more…
Big Ideas – and Bigger Connections – at ViVE 2025. Amy Oliver at Panda Health provided a recap of the event, highlighting discussions about how AI adds to technical debt, why health systems demand proof that products work, and the importance of financial outcomes. Read more…
Why Data Readiness Is the Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future. Organizations are evolving data strategies to meet the demands of a digital-first future – but they also need to consider the demands of legacy infrastructure and interoperability, said Gurpreet (G.P.) Singh at ELLKAY. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for February 26, 2025: Roles for systems and support analysts, plus Oregon Health & Science University is looking for a Chief Health Information Officer. Read more…
Bonus Features for February 23, 2025: 44% of orgs experienced a cyberattack involving a third-party vendor in the last year, 20% of patients prefer AI to phone calls if it results in faster service. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Amwell divested its virtual psychiatric care business to Avel eCare for approximately $21 million in cash at closing and an additional earn-out payment
- Population health management vendor HealthEC merged with VirtualHealth, a medical management platform. The combined company is called Elligint Health.
- Healthcare large language model Hippocratic AI completed a $141 million Series B financing round.
- Medical coding platform KODE raised $27 million in Series B funding.
- Quibim raised $50 million in Series A funding; the company uses imaging biomarkers for precision medicine.
- Workflow automation platform Medsender announced $5 million in Series A funding.
- Cancer medicine discovery platform Manas AI launched with $24.6 million in seed funding.
- Business operations and services providers Sagility acquired BroadPath Healthcare Solutions.
- Clinical research data platform H1 acquired Ribbon Health, a health plan provider data platform.
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