Most Important Today
- ★ Billings Clinic on AI in Healthcare: Why Trust Beats Speed — Colin Hung (21 Oct 2025)
Billings Clinic is integrating Oracle Health’s AI tools with governance-first guardrails, emphasizing clinician and patient trust over rapid rollout. Dr. Randy Thompson details how framing, oversight, and clear use cases are bringing AI scribes and clinical agents into daily care.
Why It Matters: Governance and change management determine AI ROI—reducing burnout and risk while improving documentation and throughput requires trust, policy, and measurement from day one.
- ★ MedSetGo Closes $2.4M Oversubscribed Seed Round to Transform Healthcare Navigation with AI — Healthcare IT News (21 Oct 2025)
MedSetGo raised $2.4M led by TurboStart with participation from Gold House Ventures to modernize patient care transitions using AI. The company targets the post-acute ecosystem to streamline navigation and reduce leakage across episodes of care.
Why It Matters: Improved care transitions can lower readmissions and total cost of care; leaders should assess integration with EHRs, referral platforms, and PAC partners to capture ROI under value-based models.
EHR Vendor Releases / Sales
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Hospital Implementations
- From Surgery to Recovery: Winning Under TEAM with Real-Time Insights — Guest Author (21 Oct 2025)
With CMS’s Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) taking effect Jan 1, 2026, hospitals will be accountable beyond discharge. The piece argues real-time post-acute data and analytics are essential to manage episodes and performance risk.
Why It Matters: Prepare now for TEAM by investing in real-time feeds from SNFs/Home Health, interoperability, and command-center analytics to avoid penalties and optimize episode outcomes.
Other Healthcare Technology
- Cerebral Raises $25M Just Over a Month After First Acquisition — Healthcare IT News (21 Oct 2025)
Cerebral secured $25M in new capital, reportedly tied to its acquisition of Resilience Labs, underscoring consolidation momentum in virtual behavioral health. Funding will support scaling integrated care delivery and platform capabilities.
Why It Matters: Vendor stability and consolidation affect risk posture and integration roadmaps; health systems should reassess partnerships, data governance, and interoperability commitments with virtual mental health suppliers.
Why It Matters — A Healthcare Leader’s Perspective
Today’s stories point to three priorities: govern AI with trust to drive clinician adoption and measurable ROI; strengthen interoperability and real-time analytics ahead of TEAM’s episode accountability; and manage vendor risk as digital behavioral health consolidates. Align investments to governance, data liquidity, and partner due diligence to capture value while minimizing operational and compliance risk.
