Weekly Roundup – May 30, 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.

Filling Point-of-Care Gaps in Behavioral Health. David Wilson at AdvancedMD joined Colin Hung to discuss the company’s eMAR solution and explain why electronic medication administration records matter for in-house behavioral health treatment. Read more…

Making AI and Value-Based Care Work in Rural Health Facilities. Pranam Ben at The Garage and Brittany Sachdeva at Cibolo Health told John Lynn the most impactful value-based care model operates as an extension of the care team, focuses on disease management, and uses AI to identify revenue opportunities. Read more…

Ambient AI Scribes Help Clinicians Spend Less Time Charting at Night. Cynthia Cox at Kentucky-based Family Health Centers talked to John about using Sunoh.ai in primary care and behavioral health, where many practitioners use the scribe to capture more than 90% of clinical notes. Read more…

Life Sciences Today Podcast: Introducing a Medical Writing Platform for FDA Submissions. Anita Modi at Peer AI joined Danny Lieberman to talk about cutting in half the time it takes to write complex medical documents for regulatory submissions. Read more…

Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Trends in Healthcare Marketing and Patient Experience. Hot on the heels of the Swaay.Health LIVE conference, John and Colin discussed where AI is changing behavior in seeking and getting care. They also debated AI’s impact on healthcare websites. Read more…

When Lower Cost-to-Collect Fails to Improve Cash Flow. Cost-to-collect doesn’t tell organizations whether they captured reimbursements they were entitled to receive, noted Sid Mehta at Access Healthcare. That’s why the focus must shift from operational cost to revenue realization. Read more…

Scaling Smart Hospitals Is Harder Than it Looks; Here’s What Actually Works. The technology is never the problem, said Alisha Moopen at Aster DM Healthcare. The challenge is that scaling requires a fundamental rethink of how care is designed, delivered, and coordinated. Read more…

Why Sleep Is the Obvious Starting Point for Digital Mental Health’s Physiological Layer. Colin Lawlor at Sleep.ai outlined how sleep tracking accuracy has evolved and why sleep matters for addressing mental health symptoms before they can increase the risk of depression or anxiety. Read more…

The Difference Between a Correctly Coded Claim and a Payable One. AI coding tools are trained on documentation patterns and audit logic, not the relationship between codes, said Dr. Jenakan Dev at Grelin Health. To fix this, organizations need to focus on how claims are constructed and validated. Read more…

HIPAA-Compliant Telehealth Requires a Flexible, Device-Agnostic Workforce. Enforcing consistent security policies can be challenging with remote contractors using personal or third-party devices, noted David Matalon at Venn. Isolating ePHI and healthcare applications inside a protected workspace can help. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for May 27, 2026: Multiple organizations are looking for IT directors. Read more…

Bonus Features for May 24, 2026: 74% of compromised healthcare devices store EHR credentials; plus, 62% of organizations say legacy data archiving impacts patient care. Read more…

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