Daily EHR & Health IT Brief
Most Important Today
- ★ Learnings and Innovations from the HLTH 2025 Conference – Part 1 — John Lynn (27 Oct 2025). Highlights from HLTH USA capture conversations across providers, payers, and vendors on innovation themes spanning AI, data, and patient engagement.
Why It Matters: Use these cross-industry signals to calibrate 2026 roadmaps—focus pilots on AI-enabled workflows that integrate with existing data pipelines and contracts, not shiny demos. - ★ Rethinking Communications Resilience in Healthcare Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Plans — Guest Author (27 Oct 2025). A call to treat communications as a first-class element of BCDR, ensuring timely, accurate information flow across teams during disruptions.
Why It Matters: Add redundant, multi-channel communication to incident playbooks now—test escalation trees, role-based messaging, and compliance logging to reduce downtime and regulatory risk.
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Other Healthcare Technology
- ★ Vocca Raises $5.5M to Transform Healthcare Communication with AI Phone Assistants — Healthcare IT News (27 Oct 2025). Vocca automates inbound/outbound calls for providers—handling appointments, reminders, and patient requests—claiming to save secretaries 3+ hours daily and improve access.
Why It Matters: Front-door automation can unlock fast ROI if it integrates with scheduling/EHR, preserves PHI privacy, and includes change management for call flows and staff oversight. - ★ Capital Rx Announces Funding Round of $400M to Accelerate AI-Powered Health Benefits Platform; Rebrands as “Judi Health” to Reflect Expansion Beyond Pharmacy — Healthcare IT News (27 Oct 2025). The oversubscribed round will scale an enterprise health platform and signals a shift to a full-spectrum benefits technology partner beyond PBM functions.
Why It Matters: Converging benefits platforms can simplify admin and reduce leakage—CIOs should assess data-sharing, eligibility/claims integration, and contracting leverage to quantify total cost of benefits operations.
Why It Matters — A Healthcare Leader’s Perspective
Today’s updates emphasize operational resilience and throughput: invest in robust communication within BCDR, evaluate AI for high-volume patient access, and watch platform consolidation in benefits administration. Prioritize integrations, security, and measurable ROI, with tight change management to ensure adoption across clinical and back-office workflows.
