Monday Morning Update 7/28/25

Top News

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz will reportedly meet with tech executives Wednesday to seek vendor support for patient data sharing.

Reader Comments

From Oracle of Delphi: “Re: Oracle Health. A Redditor posted a screen shot of this comment from SVP Suhas Uliyar.” Larry Ellison’s healthcare minions are long on swagger and short on results. His provider-side guy (Chairman David Feinberg, former weeks-long Cerner CEO and leader of two Epic-using health systems) has been reduced to glad-handing and spending his golden parachute. Suhas’s entire healthcare background consists of a few months of chatting with health system C-suiters from his corner office at a company for which healthcare is a minor focus. Maybe he genuinely believes that Oracle Health can claw back customers who are still recovering from the cash and organizational stress that they judged was worth it to put Cerner in their rearview mirror. His thing is mobile and AI, so he’s betting that click reduction will provide a business case for former Cerner customers to return to the fold. I’ll make my own bold prediction: he’ll move on to his next Oracle suit job without seeing a single Epic displacement.

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

Poll respondents aren’t convinced that pharma-sponsored telehealth doctors should issue prescriptions without reviewing the medical records of patients they have never met.

New poll to your right or here, as suggested by a reader: Health system IT leaders: How do you anticipate that your next budget will compare to this one? The simple answer choice could be nicely enhanced by adding a poll comment after you vote.

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People

Cottage Health hires Ganesh Persad, MSBI (Emory Healthcare) as VP/CIO.

Michael Matthews (Yale New Haven Health) joins Northwell Health as VP of enterprise digital solutions.

John K. Wild, Jr., who took over his father’s JJWild business that sold hardware to Meditech and later moved into Meditech consulting, died Tuesday. He was 80.

Government and Politics

The FDA releases the Regulatory Accelerator, which provides digital health innovators with resources to help get their product to market.

Sponsor Updates

• WellSky’s summer interns volunteer at Kansas City Hospice House.
• FinThrive releases a new infographic outlining the timeline and impact of key healthcare policy provisions included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
• Altera Digital Health makes Sunrise 25.1 generally available to the UK healthcare market.
• A new Black Book Research study finds that clinicians benchmark AI tools on diagnostic accuracy, workflow support, and patient communication effectiveness.
• Nordic releases a new “Designing for Health” podcast episode featuring Brandy Parker.
• Redox releases a new episode of its “Shut the backdoor” podcast titled “A Bitter Pill – How Ransomware is Crippling Hospitals.”
• The ACHE “Healthcare Executive” podcast features RLDatix President of Patient Experience Solutions Ty Allen.
• Sonifi Health releases a new e-book titled “Trusted technology for new construction.”
• Symplr announces its first academic partnership with University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Blog Posts

• The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: A Seismic Shift in Healthcare Policy and What It Means for Revenue Strategy (FinThrive)
• Generative Engine Optimization: Why Data is Your New SEO Superpower (Kyruus Health)
• See What’s New with GEHRIMED PALTC Software (Netsmart)
• EHR Integration: PerfectServe Messaging for Epic & Oracle Health (PerfectServe)
• The One Big Beautiful Wake-Up Call: Experience Orchestration Is Now Essential (Praia Health)
• Inside Redox’s Journey to Empower IT and Data Teams Through Self-Service (Redox)
• The Quadruple Aim in Action: How Surescripts Is Advancing Healthcare’s Most Ambitious Goals (Surescripts)
• Maximize your investment in AI software for healthcare RCM: 5 initiatives for healthcare leaders (Waystar)
• UpToDate user survey: Shifting care team dynamics and added complexities show the need for clinical decision support (Wolters Kluwer Health)
• If You’re Connected to Carequality, September is Going to Affect You: What You Need to Know About Delegation of Authority (Zen Healthcare IT)

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