Weekly Roundup – May 3, 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. With Ambient Voice, Accuracy Lies in […]
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.
With Ambient Voice, Accuracy Lies in the Details. Terry Ciesla at ScribeEMR explained to John Lynn why AI-based scribes need to be able to handle complex, obscure, and subtle details, whether it’s parsing out a rare disease diagnosis, documenting insurance, or learning what types of information doctors tend to omit from their notes. Read more…
Bringing Intelligent Workflow and Digital Faxing to Healthcare. Shawn Freligh at Upland Software told John how the company is making fax more intelligent by automatically processing referrals, generating document summaries, and ensuring PII doesn’t get send to the wrong provider. Read more…
Ensuring Security in Increasingly Complicated Healthcare File Transfers. Gregory Hoffer at Coviant Software described to John how to manage the variety of data, sources, recipients, protocols, and regulations involved in secure file transfer, largely through process automation. Read more…
Reduce Readmissions by Aligning Acute and Post-Acute Care. Phyllis Wojtusik at Real Time Medical Systems joined John to outline what CMS is requiring in the TEAM model of transitions of care beginning next year and how organizations can monitor risk and meet patients’ needs. Read more…
The FHIR Business Alliance Is Focused on Business Use Cases. John sat down with Duncan Weatherston at Smile Digital Health and Mario Hyland at AEGIS.net, Inc. to discuss the organization’s efforts to bring a strong business focus to FHIR implementation. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Brain on a Chip. It sounds like science fiction, but Drs. Nisim Peretz and Dr. Nir Waiskopf at Itay&Beyond told Danny Liberman they’re aiming to develop just that. Why? The potential transform how we model psychiatric disorders and predict if new compounds will work in the brain. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Where Are They Now? John and Colin Hung debated which healthcare IT trends have come and gone. Hear their takes on blockchain, surprise billing, reputation management, and other topics that don’t get as much as attention as they used to. Read more…
Why Is the Cyber Risk Landscape Shifting? The Change Healthcare and Oracle Health breaches show attackers are increasingly exploiting third-party software vulnerabilities. This puts the onus on providers to step up third-party risk management, said Lorren Pettit at GeroTrend Research. Read more…
Vendors, Missing Regulatory Deadlines Could Cost You. With intersecting deadlines looming for prior authorization, ePrescribing, and information blocking, Dr. Nick Barger at DrFirst said vendors need to shore up their development pipelines and ensure providers get what they truly need. Read more…
How Immersive Technology Is Reshaping Nursing Education. Faculty shortages and declining enrollment are hitting the nursing pipeline hard, while the newest nurses are most likely to leave their jobs. Julie Stegman at Wolters Kluwer Health described VR’s role in better preparing students for the field. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 30, 2025: Multiple roles in health information management and informatics. Read more…
Bonus Features for April 27, 2025: Espionage now accounts for 1 in 6 healthcare data breaches, plus Blue Shield of California may have exposed data of 4.7 million people. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Virtual care vendor AvaSure acquired Nurse Disrupted, a virtual nursing platform for hospital and home settings.
- Chart review software vendor Layer Health raised $21 million in Series A funding.
- Healthcare administration data extraction vendor Taxo raised a $5 million Seed round.
- Physician salary-sharing platform Marit Health secured $3.2 million in Seed funding.
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