The following is a guest article by Brian Kenah, CTO at EnableComp Model capability is climbing fast, and the tooling to build AI agents is now largely commoditized. The strongest models are a license away for any health system or vendor that wants them. That's led a lot of technical leaders to the conclusion that

The following is a guest article by Cristian Ionescu, Co-Founder and Lead Analytics Expert at Witanalytica A healthcare app can attract thousands of users while leaving its organization unable to explain how many successfully become active subscribers. Marketing sees campaign responses. Product teams see app activity. Subscription operations see accounts and contracts. Each team has

Innovar Healthcare is known for data movement and integration in healthcare: any data in any format, between any set of customers. One major trait that distinguishes Innovar from nearly all services in health care today is that it offers and supports open source tools, which is common in other industries. In our recent interview at

The following is a guest article by Michael Ohayon, GM Nexcess Managed Cloud at Nexcess Broadcom acquired VMware and changed how its software is sold. Perpetual licenses are gone, subscription prices are rising, and legacy contracts are expiring. This leaves you to pay more for existing infrastructure or transition to an alternative platform. For clinics,

The Civitas Networks for Health Annual Conference brings together leaders from health information exchanges, health collaboratives, government, and across the healthcare ecosystem to discuss the future of health data and interoperability. We caught up with several of these leaders at the conference to get their perspectives on the biggest issues facing healthcare data today, from

The following is a guest article by Tejaswani Veerni, Business Intelligence Developer at UI Health Every health system wants to use AI. The conversations are happening from the C-suite down to the analytics team. But anyone who actually works with healthcare data knows there is a wall that stops most of those conversations before they

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. Inside Epic's Push to Help Customers

The following is a guest article by John Tonthat, CRO at Cellhub The Survival of Rural Healthcare Will Depend on Network Resilience and Remote Care, Cost-Effectively Delivered Rural hospitals are facing crises across-the-board. The latest analysis from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform shows that more than 700 rural hospitals across the country

The following is a guest article by Mohammed Omer Shakeel Ahmed, Senior Business Intelligence Analyst In healthcare, modernization has come to mean one thing: the next CRM system, with a polished interface and an impressive feature list. When leadership sees a demo and a shiny, up-to-date interface, the project gets greenlit because it creates the

Cotiviti ties together providers and payers, including the top 25 US health plans, that collectively serve 300 million members in the United States. In this video, CEO Ric Sinclair describes how the "friction" between providers and payers can be resolved by leveraging smarter infrastructure like what Cotiviti provides. Sinclair looks beyond technology and data, even

The following is a guest article by Brian Liddell, CEO at Harmony Healthcare IT Healthcare organizations have made meaningful progress in consolidating clinical data in the EHR. Yet for many clinicians, a significant and persistent challenge remains: relevant patient information is still fragmented across systems and accessing it from the EHR isn’t always seamless. In

Retaining female talent in healthcare IT requires real-world experience, not generic networking events. Anita Ghose from InventiveX and AIDH shares how practical leadership development stops mid-career turnover, and why health systems must focus AI tools on reducing frontline clinical workload.

The following is a guest article by David Montoya, Presales Director at Paessler GmbH In June, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) drew a line under a problem every network defender feels: it’s harder than ever to hit back against the growing quantity and quality of cyberattacks. As a result, the body shared a new

The following is a guest article by Tanya M. Martin, MBA-HCM, Sr. Director, Clinical Technology Services at Tufts University The Governance Gap Healthcare Can No Longer Ignore Healthcare technology was once judged largely by availability: Was the system up, the project delivered, and the ticket closed? Those measures still matter, but clinical technology now sits

Automated clinical models require strict data governance to function safely. We sat down with leaders from the Healthcare Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) to discuss the global evolution of the profession. Discover why closing the clinical coder training gap and securing executive visibility for data stewards is a matter of patient safety and professional growth.