Weekly Roundup – May 10, 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 Can Digital Health Ensure Equitable […]
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 Can Digital Health Ensure Equitable Access in Rural and Underserved Areas? Insights from the Healthcare IT Today community included telehealth, remote monitoring, expanded availability of SDOH screenings, and AI-assisted review of medical imaging. Read more…
Insights and Perspectives From Utah HIMSS. John Lynn made his way to Salt Lake City and gathered insights on thinking holistically when implementing AI, sticking to the basics, and reducing friction in the patient experience. Read more…
What Technology Innovations Are Impacting Healthcare the Most? We also posed this question to the Healthcare IT Today community; answers included VR, LLMs, process automation, and gene therapies. Read more…
Validating, Standardizing, and Accelerating Healthcare Applications. Health systems need help finding app that address specific needs, populations, budgets, and resources. Dr. Michael Docktor at Dock Health and Dr. Sonya Makhni at Mayo Clinic Platform told John about their work to validate apps providers can trust. Read more…
At Its 2025 Enterprise Summit, eClinicalWorks Focuses on Growth and Basics. Reporting from Florida, Colin Hung noted AI has moved to the background. Instead, the company touted small changes with big impacts, such as creating notes from faxes and embedding scribes within progress notes. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Creating Value for Patients and Providers. Danny Liberman caught up with Loren Larsen at Videra Health about bringing automation to behavioral healthcare workflows. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Leadership Lessons From Rugby. Albert Oriol joined John to share how the culture of New Zealand’s All Blacks can be applied to managing healthcare teams. Oh, and they also talked about AI. Read more…
Why Private Practices Matter for the Future of U.S. Healthcare. While independent practices make up just 30% of the market, autonomy offers an incentive to provide sustainable care and leverage emerging technology, said Victor Zhou at Klarity Health. Read more…
Where Your Practice Falls Short on the Patient’s Digital Experience. A modern tech stack that supports text messaging and mobile apps can help practices meet patient expectations for scheduling, billing, and managing care, according to Randy Boldyga at RXNT. Read more…
AI, Decentralized Trials, and a New Era in Drug Development. The combination of telemedicine, home-based diagnostics, wearable devices, remote monitoring, and process automation is removing barriers to participating in clinical trials and accelerating drug development, noted Matt Noble at Medidata. Read more…
The Power of Listening to Patients. Dr. Gary Rothenberg and Jordan Munson at Podimetrics outlined how patients want digital solutions that come with personalized support, recognize their unique challenges, and ensure they remain involved in their care. Read more…
Why RCM Is an Essential Tool in Sustaining Growth. Ananth Pudukkottai at Access Healthcare described how the company helped Homecare Homebase manage 50% annual growth by emphasizing resilience, scalability, data visibility, and transparency. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for May 7, 2025: Multiple roles in information, plus Oregon-based St. Charles Health System is looking for a CMIO. Read more…
Bonus Features for May 4, 2025: 39% of private practice owners aim to add patient payment tech this year; meanwhile, 60% of orgs don’t provide cyber awareness training to non-IT staff. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Clinical data abstraction company Carta Healthcare secured $18.25 million in Series B1 financing.
- Infinx Healthcare acquired the healthcare RCM business of i3 Verticals.
- Payment software maker Weave acquired TrueLark, a receptionist and front-desk automation platform.
- American Telemedicine Association advocacy arm ATA Action acquired the Digital Therapeutics Alliance.
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