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.
As U.S. Hospitals Drown in Claims, Canada Misses Clinical Data. Colin Hung caught up with ScoJo Consulting CEO Jodi McMullin, who explained that American hospitals creates a massive volume of codes per chart, so they can bill for specific treatments and avoid payer audits, while Canadian hospitals have no such need to track incidental histories for billing. Read more…
How AI and Automation Are Reshaping RCM. John Lynn chatted with Omega Healthcare CEO Anurag Mehta about leveraging AI to check 100% of submissions and prior authorization requests rather than just a small subset, which can lead to more efficient billing and higher rates of reimbursement. Read more…
Moving HIM From the Back Office to Strategic Leadership. Canadian Health Information Management Association CEO Mahmoud Suleiman talked to Colin about actively deploying HIM experts in high-level oversight roles to protect data architecture – and produce better outcomes. Read more…
How Regulatory Changes and Evolving Payer Requirements Impact RCM Technology Strategy. Amid a complex environment, the Healthcare IT Today community recommended identifying platforms that can evolve, aligning workflows across business units, and advocating for standardization in prior authorization. Read more…
How Clinical, Billing, and Payer System Interoperability Impacts Revenue Cycle Efficiency. The experts at Healthcare IT Today also shared tips for overcoming these challenges such as increasing collaboration, improving data standards, breaking down data silos, and automating repetitive processes. Read more…
New Value in Service Desk Data Collected Through AI. John connected with Dan O’Connor and Chris Durham at HCTec to discuss gaining valuable operational data from every service desk interaction and turning that information into actionable insight. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Breaking Clinical Data Chaos. Danny Lieberman talked to Raj Indupuri at eClinical Solutions about treating clinical development like a continuous learning system instead of a sequence of disjointed handoffs. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: World Cup of Health IT. John and Colin debate who deserves a yellow card or red card in the industry, along with whether cybersecurity of clinical efficiency wins a close match in the procurement office. Read more…
The IDR Battle Is an Architecture Problem. AI Is How You Build the Fix. Providers win 7 times out of 8 under the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process, in large part because payers are short-staffed, said Shuo Yang at Daffodil Health. Fortunately, claims communication is well suited to the use of AI. Read more…
What Defending a 49-Pharmacy Network Through War Taught Me About Healthcare Security. Andrii Klepak at CloudCare Pro, and lead infrastructure engineer for a pharmacy network operating in Western Ukraine, provided five disciplines a small practice needs to adopt and five questions to ask every vendor based on his experience. Read more…
Why Ireland Is Emerging as a Hub for SaMD and EU Health Data Innovation. Qurrat Ul Ain at IDA Ireland explained that the country hosts a strong base of global medtech and IT leaders, which positioned Ireland as an incubator for next-generation medical devices, AI systems, and regulated digital health products. Read more…
Beyond Therapy Bots: Evaluating AI at the Front Door of Mental Health Care. Because admissions and referrals in behavioral health are moments when families may be overwhelmed, AI used at this stage of care must be evaluated differently than other tools, according to Dylan Abrams at InStride Health. Read more…
Community Health Centers Need Low-Cost Data Infrastructure to Improve Population Health. Healthcare’s data problems begin at the point of documentation, Dr. Shazia Fathima noted. Ensuring data is pulled consistently, validated before it’s shared, visualized so leaders can understand it, and connected to a clear action plan doesn’t take sophisticated tools. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for July 22, 2026: Medical University of South Carolina seeks a Deputy CIO. Read more…
Bonus Features for July 19, 2026: 5 in 6 clinicians use AI without guidance from their employer, 29% of patients’ AI conversations happen outside business hours. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Trase raised a $107 million seed round; the company makes an agentic operating system for regulated industries.
- Medical device validation infrastructure company Inner Logic announced an $11.5 million seed round.
- IntelePeer launched Aqurio, an agentic AI company for deploying, orchestrating, and governing AI agents across healthcare.
- Payment accuracy vendor Lyric acquired Concert, maker of technology for translating machine-readable payment policies.
- Patient access company SpinSci acquired Dialog Health, a patient communication platform.
- Urgent care technology platform Experity acquired Exdion Healthcare, which specializes in coding, billing, compliance, and RCM.
- MitoSense and Aquila Health entered a strategic partnership to build AI-ready data infrastructure for mitochondrial medicine.
- Sleep apnea device maker ResMed sold its software business, known as MatrixCare, to private equity firm Frazier Healthcare.
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