I dont think anything will change until Dr Jayne and others take my approach of naming names, including how much…
Monday Morning Update 9/15/25
Top News
The FDA grants clearance for the upgraded cardiac imaging platform of precision medicine vendor Tempus AI, sending the company’s shares up 14% on Thursday to reach a market cap of $15 billion.
Billionaire Tempus founder and CEO Eric Lefkofsky, JD was a co-founder of Groupon and remains chair. He started Tempus in 2015.
HIStalk Announcements and Requests
Here’s what last week’s poll respondents see as AI risks.
New poll to your right or here: Does Oracle’s size and use of application code generators give it an edge over Epic in addressing healthcare problems? Larry Ellison made the claim during the earnings call, as his net worth was rising that day by $100 billion.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
Virtual chronic condition care provider Goodpath raises $17 million in a Series A funding round.
Government and Politics
A whistleblower lawsuit accuses Alphabet-owned Verily of misusing patient data, with its former diabetes business chief commercial officer alleging he was fired for reporting HIPAA violations to company leaders.
Other
A LinkedIn post by Archbold Medical Center (GA) CIO/CMIO Kendall Wyatt, MD, RN summarizes the just-concluded Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit:
- Several clients are using the company’s new EHR.
- The company is moving beyond “listen and create a patient note” ambient AI capability to creating orders for physician review based on their practice patterns.
- The Clinical AI agent is being used by nurses and medical assistants at BayCare Health System to chart by voice.
- Also mentioned: prior authorization approval prediction, automated coding, patient history summaries, and answering questions using the patient history.
- He predicts that Epic is now like the former Cerner, which lost customers because bolting new capabilities onto an old EHR led to disconnected workflow and design.
Today’s bizarre company news: Medical Care Technologies announces that it is supporting its AI health diagnostics mission by acquiring a collection of sports trading cards and memorabilia.
Sponsor Updates
- Censinet announces that enrollment is now open for the 2026 Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study.
- AdvancedMD will exhibit at the 2025 Psych Conference September 17-21 in San Diego.
- Vyne Medical publishes a new guide titled “Machine Learning vs. RPA in Healthcare: Finding the Right Automation for Intelligent Data Processing.”
- Netsmart will exhibit and present at the 2025 Ohio Council for Home Care & Hospice Annual Conference September 15-17 in Columbus.
- Meditech releases a new case study titled “Wooster Community Hospital Health System Frees Up Nurses’ Charting Time by Almost 1,600 Hours Annually in Expanse.”
- Tegria publishes a new case study titled “Accelerating Revenue Cycle Performance for Measurable Financial Gains.”
- ReferWell names Natalie Dahle manager of people and culture.
- TrustCommerce, a Sphere company, offers a new white paper titled “Demystifying Healthcare Payments: A Practical Overview.”
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust in England extends its rollout of Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise EPR to its community services.
- TeamBuilder signs a partnership agreement with Workday.
- Waystar will exhibit at the 2025 Biennial HFMA Tri-State Conference September 17-19 in Florence, IN.
Blog Posts
- Your Guide to Healthcare Software Companies: How to Choose the Right Partner (Inovalon)
- Kick-off to coding season (Wolters Kluwer Health)
- Building a smarter and more adaptive health system (Nordic)
- Coding Cheat Sheet: E/M Coding Guidelines for 2025 (Nym)
- The Burnout Crisis We’ve Stopped Calling a Crisis (Symplr)
- Insights from the inside: How healthcare leaders can support and grow their teams (WellSky)
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With regard to: “Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit” and this week’s readers poll, let’s schedule an update for September 2026 to see how it’s all working out.
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I popped back a year to see what Larry was promising at Vaporware Summit 2024. Unfortunately it’s something he’s 100x more likely to actually deliver:
“Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”
(don’t worry, he meant it in the good way)
When Oracle takes a single customer of size from Epic we can talk about this being an actual competition again.
Question for Kendall Wyatt, or Larry Ellison.
How’s that cloud-native, physician-first Pharmacy re-write coming along? No? Nothing?
Sheesh, I realize this is the first big deliverable after Oracle swallowed Cerner, but that sure seems like a slow roll. Maybe you should try using some of that AI enhanced, application generator pixie dust you like talking about.
Tell you what. Lay off a few more of the Cerner folks, move the headquarters a couple more times, and write some cheques to the federal government. Talk about ‘synergies’ and ‘focusing on your core competencies’. Those steps always help (or so we are told by the investment banker set).
Ahh “write some cheques to the federal government.” just like Epic did for the Affordable Care Act”
https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2013/05/25/malkin-judy-faulkner-obama-crony-charge-your-medical-records/15091083007/