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The Healthcare AI Adoption Index

Digital Health Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

The rest are being built internally or led by the usual suspects like major EHRs and Big Tech. Of the 22 jobs-to-be-done for Payors (claims, network, member, pricing), 19 jobs for Pharma (preclinical, clinical, marketing, sales), and 18 jobs for Providers (care delivery, RCM) – 45% are still in the ideation or proof of concept phase.

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RCM Digital Health EHR

Bonus Features – October 20, 2024 – Clinicians spend 28 hours per week on admin tasks, 80% of adults 18-24 willing to use generative AI in healthcare, plus 22 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Half of the investment in AI for digital health in 2024 has been administrative , according to a report from Silicon Valley Bank. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of RCM leaders believe generative AI will substantially impact medical coding operations , according to an AKASA survey.

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AI and Automation in Healthcare – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2024

RCM will be managed by AI-powered agents every step of the way, including generating appeals letters, submitting appeals to payers, and converting paper EOBs to ERAs. In 2025, we predict that using AI-powered agents will reduce the cost of Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) by 70%, helping streamline the end-to-end billing process.

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Bonus Features – February 23, 2025 – 44% of orgs experienced a cyberattack involving a third-party vendor in the last year, 20% of patients prefer AI to phone calls if it results in faster service, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs chose Relias to provide workforce training and resources for state public health leaders. Prior authorization technology vendor careviso announced a strategic alliance with XiFin , an RCM vendor. Cleveland Clinic chose Ambience for AI documentation and point-of-care coding.

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RCM EHR Healthcare IT Primary Care

Bonus Features – April 27, 2025 – Espionage now accounts for 1 in 6 healthcare data breaches, Blue Shield of California may have exposed data of 4.7 million people, plus 32 other stories

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2025

Partnerships Ambience Healthcare’s AI platform for health systems is now available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The Patient Intake solution from InteliChart is now available to users of Office Practicum , a pediatric EHR. Ophthalmology and optometry EHR Moyae is now integrated with AdvancedMD.

Bonus Features – October 6, 2024 – Only 25% of health systems trust ROI claims from digital health vendors, behavioral health makes up 72% of telehealth volume, plus 20 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Studies Market intelligence vendor Panda Health released The Digital Health ROI Report. Interoperability vendor Connective Health is partnering with Availity , a real-time information network, to create precise care summaries for primary care and virtual specialty care providers.

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CareCloud Reignites Acquisition Strategy with MesaBilling Acquisition

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2025

Learn more about our products and services, including revenue cycle management (RCM), practice management (PM), electronic health records (EHR), business intelligence, patient experience management (PXM), and digital health at carecloud.com.

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RCM Patient Experience EHR healthcare technology

Weekly Roundup – October 29, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The problem is that EHR alerts are great until doctors stop looking at them – and with hundreds of alerts streaming into the average EHR every day, John Lynn said he’s worried the EHR may soon look like the email inbox with 10,000 unread messages. Read more… The Benefits of RCM as a Service.

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Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

A report from KLAS Research and UPMC’s Center for Connected Medicine found only 16% of health systems have a governance policy in place for the use of AI. Tellingly, 70% of orgs with plans to deploy AI intend to adopt solutions via their EHR vendors. People EHR and RCM vendor ModMed appointed Joe Harpaz as Co-CEO.

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Weekly Roundup – October 28, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration. Read more… Addressing the Social Determinants of Mental Health. There are many ties between mental health and SDoH such as food insecurity, unemployment, and access to transportation. Read more… Going Beyond Visit Summaries Using AI in the EHR.

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Weekly Roundup – June 15, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2024

Elie Toubiana at ScribeMD talked to John Lynn about shallow, deep, and white-label integrations of ambient clinical voice and EHRs. Read more… Fast EHR and ERP Deployments at St. John and Colin Hung discussed the most anticipated topics for the upcoming event – namely, where AI and automation are actually impacting RCM.

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Weekly Roundup – July 13, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2024

Seth Eaton at pediatric provider MedPeds talked to Colin about using AI to read faxes, match them to patients, and insert the fax into the right record in the EHR. Read more… Data Integration and Patient Engagement in Canada. Read more… The Impact of Effective Revenue Cycle Management.

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RCM Interoperability Healthcare IT FHIR

Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Although 90% of health systems face turnover rates of greater than 10% for roles in RCM and patient experience, only 25% of executives are looking at AI or workflow improvements to improve efficiency , an Experian Health survey found. Mississippi-based Southland Recovery selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR.

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RCM Medicare EHR FHIR

Weekly Roundup – December 9, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2023

John Lynn and Dr. Shiv Rao at Abridge chatted about the power of going beyond speech recognition to build trust with physicians thanks to EHR integrations and maps to ontologies such as SNOMED and LOINC. Read more… How Digital Health Attracts Software Engineers: Goals. Andy Oram explored this topic in a three-part series.

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Bonus Features – February 11, 2024 – HTI-1 final rule goes into effect March 11, Best in KLAS highlights 136 products in 8 categories, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The Global Software report recognized regional leaders in acute care EHR and PACS. ONC and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are launching a $20 million Behavioral Health Information Technology Initiative to improve IT adoption in psychiatry and behavioral health. For the U.S.

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RCM Life Science EHR Psychiatry

Weekly Roundup – April 13, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2024

At HIMSS 2024, John Lynn moderated a panel with Rackspace and Dell that highlighted the benefits and challenges of implementing and integrating multicloud solutions in healthcare , especially with it comes to hosted EHR. Read more… This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 10, 2024. Read more… Bonus Features for April 7, 2024.

Interoperability

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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Specialty EHR platform Net Health is integrating workflow automation and patient engagement functionality from Alinea into its senior living platform. LexisNexis Risk Solutions launched a real-world data network and named five partner members: Truveta, Ovation, Solis Mammography, PointClickCare, and The Institute for Health Metrics.

HIE

HIE RCM Primary Care EHR

Weekly Roundup – October 15, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The cloud-based EHR vendor’s v12 release is coming soon, and at this year’s user conference CEO Girish Navani announced multiple new eCW features that had the audience gasping with excitement. While attending the eCW user conference, John also reflected on how poor EHR usability can have an adverse effect on patient safety.

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Bonus Features – October 2, 2022 – Tech vendors commit to standardizing SDoH data at White House event, 1 in 3 patients using telehealth to manage a chronic condition, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Among the many announced initiatives was the Sync for Social Needs coalition , a group of health systems, insurers, and vendors committed to standardizing the sharing of patient data on food insecurity and other social determinants. Handheld ultrasound scanner maker Butterfly Network launched its Proficiency Management Solution.

eCare

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Weekly Roundup – October 5, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Colin Hung chatted with Roger Murray at Telemynd and Venky Chellappa at CharmHealth about building the right APIs to enable bidirectional integration between EHR and CRM software to support mental health. Read more… Mental Health Screenings Ensure Healthy Children and Parents.

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Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Partnerships Hona has integrated Particle Health’s API for retrieving records outside an EHR system into its tool for creating medical history summaries. Diabetes and obesity care company Vida Health is making select RPM devices from Withings Health Solution available to members. 1, 2024.

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Telehealth RCM Public Health EHR

Weekly Roundup – April 1, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2023

Read more… Learning From Consolidating EHRs and Achieving HIMSS Stage 7. In the latest CIO Podcast, LCMC Health’s Tanya Townsend told John about the health system’s EHR consolidation as part of its effort to get to HIMSS Stage 7 for the EMR Adoption Model. Million Users.

EHR

EHR Healthcare IT RCM EMR

Bonus Features – August 27, 2023 – Trilliant Health Opens its National Provider Directory for the First Time Ever, 60% of Patients Trust Independent Practices over Corporate Healthcare, and More

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2023

More than one-third of the 321 participating health system executives are planning to automate two or more RCM or finance functions in 2024 a recent survey by Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and Eliciting Insights reports.

RCM

RCM EHR Healthcare IT Digital Health

Rising and Falling in Health IT – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 67

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2021

I’m not sure there’s ever been a time in health IT where more things have been happening. Money is flowing into new and old health IT companies as they build out new digital health solutions and […] test

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Bonus Features – March 26, 2023 – Epic sees “tremendous potential” for GPT, more than 90% of patients want self-scheduling, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

News In a Microsoft press release announcing the availability of GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service, Epic’s Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of Research and Development, said the EHR vendor sees “tremendous potential” for the latest version of the multimodal large language model.

RCM

RCM EHR Interoperability Healthcare IT

DAS Health Expands Into Canadian Market with Recent Acquisition

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2024

DAS Health Ventures, LLC (DAS Health) , a provider of healthcare IT and business solutions, proudly announces the acquisition of the North American Digital Health division from a leading established digital transformation provider based in Canada.

RCM

RCM Medical Billing Health IT EHR

Bain & Company - KLAS Research 2023 HealthTech Report: Key Points for Providers, Vendors & Investors

Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The report also finds that providers are prioritizing their IT investments in certain key areas, such as: Revenue cycle management (RCM) : RCM is the process of managing the financial aspects of patient care, from billing and coding to collections and denials. Market Insights & Analysis for Founders & Investors.

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RCM Healthcare IT EHR Patient Experience

Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster. For more information about Canvas Medical, visit canvasmedical.com. .

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EMR Digital Health Primary Care RCM

Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

The Florida Association of ACOs announced Spatially Health as its newest business partner ; the company’s technology helps identify barriers to health equity. Care personalization company Verto Health joined Digital Health Canada’s CHIEF Executive Forum.

Medicare

Medicare Telehealth Telemedicine RCM

Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

KMS Healthcare launched CONNECT , an interoperability platform for developers of digital health technology. California’s Orange County Migraine & Wellness Center selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR and healow. Illinois-based Springfield Clinic is migrating to athenahealth ‘s cloud-based EHR.

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EHR Interoperability RCM HIE

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Bardy Diagnostics is a digital health and remote patient monitoring company focused on addressing a long-standing complaint by cardiac electrophysiologists and cardiologists regarding their frequent inability to clearly distinguish the P-wave on ECG strips of existing monitors. And the list will continue to be updated over time.

Connected Health

Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR

WELL Health to Acquire EMR, Billing and Clinical Assets from CloudMD

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WELL Health Technologies Corp. This acquisition will also enable our EMR and billing divisions to enter new markets in the Canadian Prairies where we look forward to supporting healthcare practitioners’ access to new digital health innovations.” WELL will pay approximately $5.75

EMR

EMR Primary Care Medical Billing RCM

Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Teladoc Health is partnering with Hinge Health and Sword Health to provide virtual therapy for joint and muscle pain. TrustCommerce integrated its patient payments platform with athenaIDX , athenahealth’s RCM product. Elation Health released an integrated EHR and billing suite for primary care.

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Life Science EHR BioTech RCM

Real-World Examples of Clinician Time Savings

Xealth

MAY 30, 2023

Patient engagement, patient experience, and RCM solutions related to accuracy and payment velocity attract more attention and investment. Xealth Contribution: The health system used our digital health platform to connect 100% of qualified patients with educational content about the program.

EHR

EHR Patient Experience RCM Digital Health

Weekly Roundup – January 20, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2024

Our predictions wrap up with some general thoughts on what will happen across the health IT landscape. Efficiency, burnout, public-private partnership, competition, vendor consolidation, and an uncertain market for digital health deals rank among the top topics on everyone’s minds.

Healthcare IT

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Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

The first quarterly Healthcare IT Market Report from Pivot Point Consulting hinted at a continued need for providers to develop long-term strategies around virtual care, customer relationship management, and RCM optimization. Twelve digital health companies are among the 39 companies chosen from nearly 2,200 global submissions.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Healthcare IT Medicare

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GPB Capital acquires Maryland-based RCM/EHR vendor Health Prime International. Former IBM employees say Watson Health’s troubles stem from the company’s inability to successfully merge the assets of its acquired Phytel, Explorys, and Truven Health. Weekly News Recap. Inspirata acquires Caradigm from GE Healthcare.

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RCM HIPAA Nursing EHR

The Healthcare AI Adoption Index

Bonus Features – October 20, 2024 – Clinicians spend 28 hours per week on admin tasks, 80% of adults 18-24 willing to use generative AI in healthcare, plus 22 more stories

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Bonus Features – February 23, 2025 – 44% of orgs experienced a cyberattack involving a third-party vendor in the last year, 20% of patients prefer AI to phone calls if it results in faster service, plus 25 more stories

Bonus Features – April 27, 2025 – Espionage now accounts for 1 in 6 healthcare data breaches, Blue Shield of California may have exposed data of 4.7 million people, plus 32 other stories

Bonus Features – October 6, 2024 – Only 25% of health systems trust ROI claims from digital health vendors, behavioral health makes up 72% of telehealth volume, plus 20 more stories

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Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

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Bonus Features – February 11, 2024 – HTI-1 final rule goes into effect March 11, Best in KLAS highlights 136 products in 8 categories, plus 28 more stories

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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

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Bonus Features – October 2, 2022 – Tech vendors commit to standardizing SDoH data at White House event, 1 in 3 patients using telehealth to manage a chronic condition, and more

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Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

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Bonus Features – August 27, 2023 – Trilliant Health Opens its National Provider Directory for the First Time Ever, 60% of Patients Trust Independent Practices over Corporate Healthcare, and More

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Bonus Features – March 26, 2023 – Epic sees “tremendous potential” for GPT, more than 90% of patients want self-scheduling, and more

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Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

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