Weekly Roundup – May 17, 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. Canada’s Healthcare Innovators Are Speaking VC. […]
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.
Canada’s Healthcare Innovators Are Speaking VC. It’s Paying Off. Colin Hung reported from the Bloom Burton Healthcare Investor Conference, where it was clear that pitches leaning into soft benefits but lacking ROI metrics won’t cut it any more. Read more…
Seeking a Seamless Patient Experience. John Lynn connected with Russell Senger at The Beryl Institute, which emphasizes that patient experience efforts must extend to everybody in the healthcare organization from clinicians to front desk workers. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: AI-Powered Data. Danny Liberman caught up with Mark Klarzynsk at PEAK:AIO to chat about AI’s role in reducing the cost of bringing a drug to market and contributing to sustainability. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Takeaways From Swaay.Health LIVE. John and Colin outlined the pressures healthcare marketers, patient experience, and public relations professionals face, as discussed in otherwise sunny San Diego. Read more…
Emerging Patterns to Watch for Cloud Adoption in Radiology. Dr. Andrei Gonzales at Merge outlined how enterprise imaging, teleradiology, and outsourcing are helping radiologists work better. In most cases, cloud-based systems contribute to success. Read more…
Why AI Voice Is Finally Making Noise in Healthcare. Zain Qayyum at Medsender talked about the popularity of virtual receptionists that handle patient scheduling and automatically update EHRs. The most successful tools are both flexible and simple. Read more…
Leveraging AI to Assess Provider Quality and Simplify Care Navigation. Instead of simply relying on online reviews or word-of-mouth recommendations, intelligent AI can assess symptoms, understand personal health, and provide contextual guidance, said Dr. Daniel Stein at Embold Health. Read more…
Epic XGM: What’s Next for AI, Usability, Cosmos, and More. Dr. John Lee at HIT Peak Advisors attended the recent Epic Expert Group Meeting, where the focus was primarily on the deep integration of generative AI into clinical workflows. Read more…
Using Real-World Data to Identify Barriers to Treatment Adoption. Noah Nasser at datma described why pharmaceutical companies benefit from visibility into diagnostic workflows and treatment handoffs, especially if they seek to understand real-world adoption. Read more…
AI-Driven Diagnostics: The Future of Precision in Medical Imaging. AI’s value to medical care goes beyond basic detection capabilities to assess patient cases by severity level, identify irregularities, and recommend interventions, noted Thomas Kluz at Niterra Venture. Read more…
The Synergy of Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models. Combining structured representation of information with AI models capable of generating text can help clinicians and researchers find information quickly, according to Ben Cushing at Red Hat. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for May 14, 2025: Multiple roles in patient access and information management. Read more…
Bonus Features for May 11, 2025: 81% of healthcare decision-makers say relevant data is too difficult to access; AI copilots can reduce clinical review time for complex visits by 40%. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Service provider Carenet Health acquired Balto Health Services, a healthcare engagement company.
- Diagnostic imaging services provider RadNet agreed to acquire iCAD, which provide mammography analysis for breast cancer detection.
- Care navigation vendor Transcarent completed its merger with Accolade, a virtual primary care and care plan company.
- Stroke recovery technology company Kandu Health merged with Neurolutions, a neurorehabilitation vendor, to form Kandu.
- Lab testing platform Function Health acquired Ezra and launched a $499 full-body MRI scan.
- Virtual care delivery platform hellocare.ai raised $47 million in an oversubscribed funding growth round.
- Specialty-specific voice agent Assort Health secured $26 million in funding.
- Oncology AI company RISA Labs raised a $3.5 million funding round.
- Clinical trial imaging workflow vendor Yunu raised an oversubscribed funding round.
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