Weekly Roundup – September 26, 2026 | Healthcare IT Today

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. Key Takeaways from the Oracle Health

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EHR Access Governance Checklist for External RCM and Billing Teams | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Arun Anandhan, InfoHub Consultancy Services Most conversations about outside billing help start with workload. The billing team is behind, AR is aging, denials are taking longer to work, or the practice cannot hire fast enough. Those are real problems. But once an outside billing, coding, denial-management, or AR

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Inside Oracle’s Playbook: What the Health and Life Sciences Summit Means for Healthcare Leaders | Healthcare IT Today

At the 2026 Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, Oracle made its enterprise strategy clear. The vendor is applying best practices from other industries to healthcare operations and proving its AI-native EHR is finally delivering real-world results.

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The Cost of Convenience: Why Healthcare Payments Need Intelligent Protection | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Saurabh Joshi, EVP and President at CSG Forte Healthcare organizations have spent years modernizing how patients pay. Portals, autopay, digital wallets, and third-party billing platforms have made payment faster, more convenient, and more consumer-friendly. In fact, nearly 60% of adults over 60 say they’re at least somewhat comfortable

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Role of Analytics and Patient Engagement Tools in Acquiring, Retaining, and Personalizing Experiences for Healthcare Consumers | Healthcare IT Today

Most people have a lot of choices now when it comes to their health journey. If they don't like your location, your staff, etc. they can often just pick a new place to go instead. This makes it vital to acquire, retain, and personalize the experience for their healthcare consumers. To get a better understanding

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Beyond Data Connectivity: Why Orchestration is the Future of Data Optimization | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Gurpreet (G.P.) Singh, Senior Vice President of Interoperability Strategy and Solutions at ELLKAY Twenty years ago, healthcare's data bottleneck was digitization. The industry spent a decade turning paper into digital records. Then the bottleneck became connectivity, and we spent another decade building the interfaces to move patient records

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PerfectServe Uses AI to Transform Healthcare Workflow Orchestration | Healthcare IT Today

After 30 years of orchestrating workflows and connecting systems across providers and IT vendors, PerfectServe continues to expand what it offers provider organizations, including a new AI layer called ConnectiveIQ that will underpin all of its AI-native products moving forward. The first ConnectiveIQ-infused product, Intelligent Answering, offers AI call handling and launched in August. CEO

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AI Governance is the New Digital Divide | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Katherine W. Eisenberg, MD, PhD, FAAFP, FAMIA, Senior Medical Director for Dyna AI at EBSCO The original digital divide referred to the access gap between those who could afford to acquire technology and those who could not. A secondary divide emerged around outcomes, usage, and digital literacy. As technology

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The Archive Isn’t Neutral: What Healthcare AI Needs Before It Learns From Yesterday | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Heather Fricke, Founder of Frick-E Energy LLC Healthcare has spent years trying to preserve legacy data so it stays accessible, secure, interoperable, and useful. Now AI makes the archive more valuable. It also makes the archive more dangerous. The issue is not whether historical healthcare data are accurate

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Bonus Features – September 20, 2026 – New executives at Cotiviti, Notable, and Zelis, plus 27 more stories | Healthcare IT Today

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. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT that we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want

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Weekly Roundup – September 19, 2026 | Healthcare IT Today

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. Ensuring Privacy, Security, and Compliance in

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A Better Health Record Should Show What Changed, Not Just What Was Measured | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Lisa Zahakos, PA-C, Founder of HEART RESERVE Imagine a woman opening her patient portal before a midlife checkup. Her latest cholesterol results are there. So is yesterday’s blood pressure. Somewhere else is a pregnancy discharge summary from fifteen years ago. She remembers being treated for high blood pressure

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Keys to Ensuring Data Privacy, Security, and Regulatory Compliance in Consumer-Facing Healthcare Applications | Healthcare IT Today

No matter what aspect or model of healthcare we talk about, privacy, security, and compliance remain the top concerns. Today we are going to focus on these top concerns in relation to consumer-facing healthcare applications. We reached out to our beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to ask— what are the keys to ensuring data privacy,

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Healthcare’s Silent Risk: Fragmented Communications are Breaking Your Care Model | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Luiz Domingos, CTO at Mitel Hospitals and healthcare systems are navigating numerous challenges: workforce shortages and burnout, rising costs, persistent health inequities, data security concerns, and the growing demands of an aging population. Alone, each issue brings significant challenges to the healthcare table. Together, they create a high-pressure

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Healthcare Networks Need Ubiquity More than Standards | Healthcare IT Today

If you're not following Brendan Keeler, then you're missing out. While I find most of what Brendan publishes quite interesting (Yes, I'm an #HITNerd), I was particularly impressed by his recent piece entitled "Make Networks Dumb Again." If you're into healthcare networks and wondering what the future of interoperability looks like you should go and

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Blood Labeling Safety When Systems Are Down | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jeff Dragoo, Chief Technology Officer at Digi-Trax 5 Things Inpatient IT Teams Should Know Planned maintenance, cybersecurity incidents, network disruptions, and unexpected outages can interrupt critical healthcare workflows. Business continuity extends to protecting the blood supply network. Whether it is an emergency or scheduled downtime, blood must keep

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Technological Challenges when Integrating Direct-to-Consumer Solutions with Existing Clinical and Enterprise Systems | Healthcare IT Today

New technology is constantly being created, tested, and adopted in healthcare - this does not mean that we are abandoning our previous systems, though. Instead, we are almost always integrating the new into our existing systems. And though the new solution may have been tested over and over again, there are always bugs and challenges

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A Massive Blind Spot in Healthcare Language Access | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jeffrey J. Munks, Co-Founder of LanguageLine, and Jeff Burrow, Founder of 3Birds Strategy AI-Assisted Machine Translation is Uncovering Conversations That Were Not Happening Before Late one morning, a bilingual patient experience director stopped by the room of a patient whose preferred language was Spanish. Remembering the patient’s anxiety

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Bonus Features – September 13, 2026 – More than 60% of healthcare orgs report employees use shadow AI tools, 48% of orgs say document delays often negatively impact patient care, plus 24 more stories | Healthcare IT Today

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. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT that we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want

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Weekly Roundup – September 12, 2026 | Healthcare IT Today

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 Direct-to-Consumer Care Models. We asked

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Restoring the Human Connection with AI-Enhanced EHR Workflows | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Baha Zeidan, CEO at Azalea Health Healthcare has always been a human business. Yet, somewhere along the way, the technology designed to help clinicians began demanding more of their attention than their patients. Healthcare teams started serving technology instead of it serving them. This evolution has brought healthcare

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Enabling Direct-to-Consumer Care Models | Healthcare IT Today

A lot of the world today is geared towards self-service and convenience for consumers. Self-checkout lanes in grocery stores, the many food and grocery delivery options, streaming services, etc. It is very geared to let consumers pick what they want, when they want it, and often brings it to wherever they are. Healthcare is no

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The Hidden Affordability Gap: How Confusing Bills Stop Patients From Paying | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Casey Williams, SVP of Patient Engagement at RevSpring Healthcare affordability debates tend to focus on the price of care: what procedures cost, what insurers cover, and what patients owe. That conversation matters, but it skips an issue providers can address right now, which is that the financial experience

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How CSIRO is Making Interoperability a Front-of-House Clinical Benefit | Healthcare IT Today

Interoperability is usually a back-office IT problem. But what happens when you use data exchange to remove the computer screen from the exam room? Kirsty Maunder from CSIRO shares how Australia's Smart Health Checks eliminate transcription errors, stop redundant data entry, and bring natural conversations back to patient care.

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Four Things Healthcare Teams Get Wrong When Signing an AI Vendor BAA | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Mat Steinlin, Head of Information Security at Aptible Healthcare organizations have gotten better at asking the first AI compliance question: “Will the vendor sign a BAA?” If an AI vendor will create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI on your behalf, a BAA is foundational. But it’s not a

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The Healthcare Infrastructure Working Behind the Scenes | Healthcare IT Today

One of the most interesting organizations in healthcare is Civitas Networks for Health. This non-profit organization brings together some of the key organizations that provide the national infrastructure for health and health data. One of their best venues to convene their community is at the upcoming Civitas 2026 Annual conference. I recently sat down with

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What is Healthcare Data? | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Nat Osit, Technology Synthesist Data is a multi-dimensional representation of reality. A simulacrum. Its function is to aggregate events and human behavior to account for the past and inform decisions for the future. Digital data takes the form to another level of abstraction. Electricity is sent through logic

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The Billion-Dollar Opportunity Hiding in Care Plans | Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Kevin Torf, CEO at T2 Group, and Founder of EZCARE In today’s healthcare environment, where health systems are doing everything possible to manage costs and optimize every revenue line, they are overlooking one very important area: the point of care. T2 Group, a leading health IT partner to

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Bonus Features – September 6, 2026 – 59% of clinicians say TikTok is the top source of misinformation about GLP-1s, AMA names leader for new Center for Digital Health and AI, plus 32 more stories | Healthcare IT Today

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. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT that we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want

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