Weekly Roundup – July 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.

Leveraging Data Analytics to Improve Charge Capture Accuracy and Financial Performance. The experts in the Healthcare IT Today community are getting this done by targeting follow-up and recovery efforts, tracking core RCM metrics, automating workflows, and connecting clinical and billing data. Read more…

Interoperability Is an International Team Sport. The Canadian federal government is getting serious about health data sharing. That theme dominated eHealth26, where Colin Hung heard about Canada’s aim to learn from similar interop initiatives in Australia and the United States. Read more…

Leading Virtual Nursing Programs. Learn how virtual nursing can augment in-person care without creating additional administrative burdens or interrupting clinical workflows at health systems across the country. Read more…

Life Sciences Today Podcast: Using AI to Reduce Biostatistical Analysis Readouts. Danny Lieberman connected with Kyle McBride at Veristat to chat about reducing manual effort to speed time to approval for biostatistics submissions. Read more…

CIO Podcast: IT Management in Rural Healthcare. Jason Ava at Hawaii’s Kahuku Medical Center joined John Lynn to talk about what makes providing care in a rural community unique, along with how the organization is using Epic. Read more…

How Cloud-Based Imaging Reduces Workflow Delays and Storage Costs. Diana Lam at MIMIC discussed how the flexibility of cloud environments has become especially valuable for growing imaging networks and remote radiology workflows, particularly in private practice and for independent radiologists. Read more…

Why Interoperability Alone Won’t Fix the Semantic Gap in Healthcare. Interop makes it easy to move healthcare data, but data still isn’t in any one standardized format, noted Dr. Kaushal Kulkarni at Predoc. The industry needs a way to ensure data is complete, structured, and ready to be acted upon once it arrives. Read more…

It’s Time to Replace OCR With Vision-Language Models. Millions of paper claims are still filed each year, and data extraction failures require high-cost manual touchpoints. Computer vision models outperform OCR systems because they’re specifically trained for healthcare document edge cases, said Shaurya Sahay at Hewto.ai. Read more…

How Practices Can Reduce the Hidden Cost of Patient No-Shows. Each missed appointment costs a practices almost $200. Text message reminders, emails, automated calls, and online scheduling tools give patients convenient ways to confirm, cancel, or reschedule, noted Jonah Langer, at AppointmentReminders.com. Read more…

The Trust Gap Between AI Users and Non-Users in Healthcare. Most people are being asked to trust something they can’t see, don’t control, and aren’t sure won’t be used against them, as Dara St. Louis at Reach3 Insights put it. That’s why organizations adopting AI need to start with low-risk entry points. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for July 15, 2026: Social care platform Blooming Health seeks a CTO, while Cytek Biosciences is looking for a CIO. Read more…

Bonus Features for July 12, 2026: Healthcare workers spend 161 hours per year on PDF tasks; 94% of companies want tools to educate employees on prescription costs. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Senior living and SNF care platform Sage announced a $35 million specialized debt facility.
• Patient scheduling, insurance verification, and billing platform Prosper AI announced $30 million in Series A financing.
• Pediatric developmental care company Ladder Health closed an oversubscribed $7 million seed financing round.
• Callie Care closed a $500,000 pre-seed round; the company provides daily AI-powered phone calls to support senior care.
• Physical security and operations vendor Verkada received a strategic investment from NVIDIA.
• XRHealth acquired Swing Therapeutics, developer of digital therapies and the virtual care platform Swing Care.
• Care management services provider ChartSpan acquired Validic, a personal health data platform.
• Professional education company Colibri Group acquired Audirie, an AI-driven simulation and assessment company.

Thanks for reading and be sure to check out our latest Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundups.