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Bonus Features – July 19, 2026 – 5 in 6 clinicians use AI without guidance from their employer, 29% of patients’ AI conversations happen outside business hours, plus 28 more stories
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more.
Weekly Roundup – July 18, 2026
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn 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. Leveraging Data Analytics to Improve Charge Capture Accuracy and Financial Performance.
With UpDoc clearance, FDA sets path for care augmented by AI
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted clearance to an artificial intelligence agent, and reading the tea leaves offers hints for how the FDA intends to regulate the growing market for AI in clinical and wellness applications. UpDoc, a startup based at Stanford Medicine, last month announced FDA 510 (k) clearance for software as a medical device for patient-facing large language models (LLMs).
Leading Virtual Nursing Programs
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Amid workforce shortages and increasing inpatient volumes, many hospitals are turning to virtual nursing programs that augment in-person care with remote support. Research has shown most virtual nurses are given a dedicated role in the care journey, typically admission/discharge, patient education, or medication reconciliation.
5 ways to make agentic AI a competitive advantage
When it comes to creating an AI-driven organization, enterprise leaders may feel like they’re steering a cruise ship while startups are navigating around them in kayaks, MIT Sloan School of Management senior lecturer said. “Emerging firms can start and scale faster than we’ve ever seen before,” he said.
Bonus Features – July 12, 2026 – Healthcare workers spend 161 hours per year on PDF tasks, 94% of companies want tools to educate employees on prescription costs, plus 30 more stories
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more.
Weekly Roundup – July 11, 2026
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn 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. The 2026 EHR Market is Cooling as Leaders Pivot to AI.
5 investments to close the gap between AI wealth and welfare
Amid the transformative promise of artificial intelligence, one significant question is “Will AI enhance welfare for all or generate wealth for just a few?” Studying the rollout of other general-purpose technologies, such as the automobile and the internet, is helpful in the quest for an answer. This wave of AI is nascent. We can still decide how to deploy it in society so that it brings welfare to many.
What increased portal message volume, in-person visit volume say about the future of care
The volume of patient portal messages has more than doubled since the pre-pandemic days of early 2020, according to research from NYU Langone. Telephone calls are down over the same time, but in-person visits are up. That leads researchers to believe care delivery patterns have permanently shifted – and may require a shift in hospital staffing and support models.
Bonus Features – July 5, 2026 – 58% of dermatology practices see patients daily with AI-generated diagnoses, 94% of CIOs say AI delays would put their orgs at a competitive disadvantage, plus 27 more stories
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more.
Weekly Roundup – July 4, 2026
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn 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. Relieving the Burden of Release of Information Requests.
Bonus Features – June 28, 2026 – Third-party failures disrupt operations at 85% of practices, nearly 60% of nurses say their tech training falls short, plus 27 more stories
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more.
Weekly Roundup – June 27, 2026
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn 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. Epic Shares Details for First ERP Application in EpicOps.
AI’s benefits have reached the revenue cycle, but adoption remains uneven
Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important part of healthcare revenue cycle management, though AI isn’t equally distributed across RCM use cases. According to research from PayZen, the discrepancy has a lot to do with health system size and tends to reflect broader adoption of AI within those organizations.
Bonus Features – June 21, 2026 – Only 14% of AI insights are fully integrated into decision-making processes, only 41% of consumers say AI tools are helpful in healthcare interactions, plus 34 more stories
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more.
Weekly Roundup – June 20, 2026
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn 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. A Breakthrough for Surgical Residents: AI That Watches You Operate.
How Business Associate Agreement Terms Apply to Google’s Generative AI
Business associate agreements between technology vendors and their payer, provider and clearinghouse partners establish how a BAA works with these HIPAA-regulated entities. The contract also underscores how a BAA can — and cannot — use an entity’s protected health information (PHI) through the course of their work. As a frequent business associate of covered entities, Google is bound by the terms of the BAA for its Google Cloud Platform.
WISeR under fire in Congress amid reports of delays in Washington state
Senate Democrats are calling for a stop to the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction pilot of prior authorization powered by artificial intelligence in traditional Medicare, arguing that WISeR is suffering from the shortcoming they’ve been predicting for months. A resolution introduced May 20 seeks to overturn the pilot, currently operating in six states, using Congress’ authority to oversee rules from federal agencies.
Bonus Features – June 14, 2026 – Number of patients using telehealth down 48% since 2020, 71% of patients want phone or in-person assistance when they need help, plus 22 more stories
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more.
Weekly Roundup – June 13, 2026
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn 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. Replacing Post-It Notes in the OR With Real-Time Dashboards.
Bonus Features – June 7, 2026 – 34% of patients would let an AI assistant read their entire medical record, 74% of clinicians worry relying on AI too much will erode their skills, plus 27 more stories
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more.
Weekly Roundup – June 6, 2026
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn 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. Continuous Risk Monitoring Is Transforming Revenue Integrity Amid Rising Audits.
What Teladoc Health’s partnership with Walmart says about DTC telehealth
Teladoc Health recently inked a deal with Walmart, and the terms of the partnership say a lot about the state of direct-to-consumer (DTC) telehealth. Under the deal, Teladoc’s urgent care, dermatology, and nutrition services are now available on Better Care Services, the digital health platform Walmart launched earlier this year.
Bonus Features – May 31, 2026 – 1 in 8 medical practices have deployed an AI receptionist, Teladoc Health teams up with Walmart, plus 21 more stories
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more.
Weekly Roundup – May 30, 2026
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn 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. Filling Point-of-Care Gaps in Behavioral Health.
As hospital at home shows promise, its obstacles sound familiar to rural providers
A recent study reinforced that the hospital at home model may improve short-term clinical outcomes but raised longstanding concerns about equitable access to HaH programs, especially in rural areas. The JAMA Network Open paper found lower in-hospital mortality and ED use within 30 days of discharge compared to traditional inpatient admissions. Among nearly 16,000 fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries, the HaH mortality rate was 0.4%, compared to 3.6% for inpatient stays.
Google Health Coach, Fitbit Air enter crowded market for health monitoring
After a late start, Google appears to be gaining momentum in the wearable game by going downmarket, emphasizing wellness, and leaning on artificial intelligence. On May 19, the company made Google Health Coach available globally to anyone with a Google Health Premium subscription, which is $9.99 per month or $99 per year. The coach, which had been available in preview since October, uses Gemini models to help users track fitness, sleep, nutrition, and health metrics.
Bonus Features – May 24, 2026 – 74% of compromised healthcare devices store EHR credentials, 62% of orgs say legacy data archiving impacts patient care, plus 31 more stories
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more.
Weekly Roundup – May 23, 2026
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn 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. Healthcare IT History Doesn’t Repeat, But It Does Rhyme.
Leading Healthcare CIOs on LinkedIn
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn A lot has changed on the social media landscape since Healthcare IT Today debuted in 2005 – remember Google Plus? Klout? Clubhouse? Vine? One certainty remains. The prevalence of LinkedIn as a network for discussing leadership strategies and technology trends (in addition to building a network and a brand, of course).
Centering Nurses Amid Evolving Tech Adoption in Healthcare
Clinical Input Is Key to Solving Clinical Problems It’s a critical time for the industry to amplify the nursing experience. Research shows that annual job turnover for registered nurses exceeds 16%. What’s more, new nurses are caring for an aging population with complex conditions and confronting care documentation burdens.
Bonus Features – May 17, 2026 – Just 59% of healthcare orgs track the performance of their AI agents, 60% of nurses lack confidence in their org’s AI oversight, plus 31 more stories
Brian Eastwood Share This! FacebookXPinterestLinkedIn Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more.
Weekly Roundup – May 16, 2026
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. News From the eClinicalWorks Health Center Summit. John Lynn made his way to the event, which brings together FQHC users.
How ‘learnrights’ would compensate creators for AI model training
Human content creators are protected by copyright law, in part to ensure that they’re fairly compensated for their work. But whether these laws allow artificial intelligence models to learn from human-created content is up for debate — both in court and on Capitol Hill. Encyclopedia Britannica’s lawsuit against OpenAI, for example, is one of the latest allegations of misuse of reference materials.
Bonus Features – May 10, 2026 – Poor communication would lead 58% of patients to look for a new provider, Google extends Chrome with security features for healthcare, plus 27 more stories
Brian Eastwood Brian Eastwood is a Boston-based writer with more than 10 years of experience covering healthcare IT and healthcare delivery. Brian also writes about enterprise IT, consumer technology, corporate leadership, and higher education for a range of publications and clients. He got his start as a professional writer as a community newspaper reporter in 2003. When he's not writing, Brian is most likely running, hiking, or cross-country skiing in Northern New England.
Weekly Roundup – May 9, 2026
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. Hearing Firsthand How AI Is Being Applied in Healthcare.
5 practical steps to successful clinical AI deployment
Organizations treading carefully incorporating artificial intelligence into clinical workflows do so with good reason. Healthcare faces impediments to AI implementation, namely cybersecurity and data governance, while AI tools still struggle to accurately interpret clinical risk. With that in mind, a recent report from the Commonwealth Fund highlighted how to make AI useful for clinicians.
AI-Powered Healthcare Wearables: The Next Generation of Remote Patient Monitoring
Real-Time Data Delivery in Remote Patient Monitoring David Ebert, chief AI and data science officer at the University of Arizona, also uses the term “big-picture view” to describe what AI and wearables can do for RPM. The true power, he says, comes from the processing capabilities embedded in today’s wearables and implantable devices. Several years ago, a patient with a pacemaker needed a purpose-built home monitor.
Bonus Features – May 3, 2026 – 81% of patients repeat the same personal information multiple times to the same provider, 61% of orgs have made outsourced managed services a core part of IT strategy, plus 23 more stories
Brian Eastwood Brian Eastwood is a Boston-based writer with more than 10 years of experience covering healthcare IT and healthcare delivery. Brian also writes about enterprise IT, consumer technology, corporate leadership, and higher education for a range of publications and clients. He got his start as a professional writer as a community newspaper reporter in 2003. When he's not writing, Brian is most likely running, hiking, or cross-country skiing in Northern New England.
Weekly Roundup – May 2, 2026
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. Enabling More Effective Collaboration and Data Exchange Between Payers and Providers.
Polls show consumers know AI in healthcare is more convenient than accurate
Two recent reports on consumer use of artificial intelligence tools for healthcare paint a sobering picture. People generally believe AI is more convenient than accurate, but they use it anyway because they otherwise report cost, access, and care quality concerns. Polls cited in the two reports – one from the Pew Research Center, the other from West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America – found 22% and 25% of Americans use AI chatbots as a source of information, respectively.
Leading Hospital at Home Programs
In February, Congress extended the Acute Hospital Care at Home program through the end of 2030. The program provides waivers to hospitals to provide inpatient-level care at home to qualified Medicare beneficiaries. The five-year extension will help participating hospitals – in place at more than 400 organizations – demonstrate the value of hospital at home and, according to the American Hospital Association (AHA), provide evidence to other payers that the program can work.
How health systems can take advantage of telemedicine’s reduced care costs
Another study has concluded that telemedicine costs a lot less than in-person care, and the authors suggest it might be time for hospitals to rethink their approach to care delivery, clinical resource allocation, and system design. The research team led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania looked at data from more than 163,000 encounters at five hospitals in the state over more than three years.
Bonus Features – April 26, 2026 – 27% of healthcare orgs deploying AI across multiple functions, 56% of orgs believe operational and technology investment will stabilize finances, plus 29 more stories
Brian Eastwood Brian Eastwood is a Boston-based writer with more than 10 years of experience covering healthcare IT and healthcare delivery. Brian also writes about enterprise IT, consumer technology, corporate leadership, and higher education for a range of publications and clients. He got his start as a professional writer as a community newspaper reporter in 2003. When he's not writing, Brian is most likely running, hiking, or cross-country skiing in Northern New England.
Weekly Roundup – April 25, 2026
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. Overcoming Barriers to Scaling AI Initiatives. How is the Healthcare IT Today community accomplishing this?
AI scribes can boost RVUs and revenue – and paint a complete picture of care
As the debate continues about return on investment (ROI) for artificial intelligence (AI) scribes in healthcare, new research points to modest but scalable revenue boosts that stem from more accurately documenting what physicians do. Researchers from University of California San Francisco (UCSF) found AI scribe adoption was associated with increases in RVUs, or relative value units.
Bonus Features – April 19, 2026 – Behavioral health makes up 66% of all telehealth visits, 70% of healthcare orgs hit with ransomware attacks pay up, plus 28 more stories
Brian Eastwood Brian Eastwood is a Boston-based writer with more than 10 years of experience covering healthcare IT and healthcare delivery. Brian also writes about enterprise IT, consumer technology, corporate leadership, and higher education for a range of publications and clients. He got his start as a professional writer as a community newspaper reporter in 2003. When he's not writing, Brian is most likely running, hiking, or cross-country skiing in Northern New England.
Weekly Roundup – April 18, 2026
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. Embedding 200 Years of Evidence Directly into Clinical Workflows.
Bonus Features – April 12, 2026 – 67% of consumers say AI’s time savings will make providers more engaged, 27% of desktop devices in healthcare are unencrypted, plus 25 more stories
Brian Eastwood Brian Eastwood is a Boston-based writer with more than 10 years of experience covering healthcare IT and healthcare delivery. Brian also writes about enterprise IT, consumer technology, corporate leadership, and higher education for a range of publications and clients. He got his start as a professional writer as a community newspaper reporter in 2003. When he's not writing, Brian is most likely running, hiking, or cross-country skiing in Northern New England.
Weekly Roundup – April 11, 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. Why Greenway Health Ditched the EHR and Started Over with Novare.
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