Monday Morning Update 1/12/26

Top News

Google removes some of its health-related AI Overviews from search results after reports that they were providing inaccurate information.

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

Asked about streamlining EHR certification requirements, poll respondents have achieved the perfect balance of confusion, optimism, pessimism, and indifference.

New poll to your right or here, inspired by Brian Too’s comment last week:  What factors drive health system investment in health tech firms? Multiple answers are OK. It would be fascinating to compare expectations to reality, but of course we hear a lot about the former and little about the latter. If you’ve been involved in a health system’s commercial dabbling, what are your conclusions?

Sponsored Events and Resources

None scheduled soon. Contact Lorre to have your resource listed.

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Healthcare staff protection system vendor Canopy raises $22 million in Series B funding. The company sued Commure in May 2025 for using its insider knowledge as a Canopy reseller to develop a competing product. The lawsuit was settled in July 2025, when Canopy took over customer management of Commure’s Strongline Pro panic button system.

People

Aidoc hires former AMA President Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH as chief medical officer.

Announcements and Implementations

Health systems that have signed up for ChatGPT for Healthcare include AdventHealth, Baylor Scott & White, Boston Children’s, Cedars-Sinai, HCA Healthcare, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Stanford, and UCSF.

Other

A Georgia jury awards $52 million to the family of a woman who died following a Brazilian butt lift. The cosmetic surgery clinic ran out of anesthesia during the procedure, and staff who attempted to revive her found that they also had no oxygen. The clinic, which did not carry insurance and is unlikely to pay much of the damages, was immediately dissolved by its owner. His previous business in the same building was called Butts Gone Wild.

Sponsor Updates

• Five9 partners with the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation.
• Fraser Health saves seven minutes per patient in discharge with Meditech’s AI-powered Hospital Course Summary in its Expanse EHR.
• Findhelp opens registration for its virtual Connect Summit, which will take place May 13-14.
• Nordic releases a new “Designing for Health” podcast featuring Aditi U Joshi, MD.
• Nym names Shachar Borovitz and Ido Shitrit medical data analysts, Oren Shalom and Inbal Tako software engineers, Sapir Shekhtman R&D medical project manager, and Inbal Rudin linguist.
• CHIME’s “Leader2Leader” podcast features Optimum Healthcare IT Chief Strategy Officer Rick Shepardson in an episode titled “Empowering Transformation: Leading with Strategy, Purpose, and Partnership in Digital Health.”
• PerfectServe offers a new case study titled “Improving Clinical Efficiency with Optimized Care Schedules and Integrated Care Team Communication.”
• Praia Health publishes a new case study titled “LabCorp and Praia Health partner to improve patient adherence, satisfaction, and outcomes at Providence.”
• Rhapsody expands its AWS Marketplace presence to power AI-ready healthcare data exchange.
• TrustCommerce, a Sphere company, will exhibit at the HFMA Western Region Symposium January 18-21 in Las Vegas.
• TruBridge and The Health Management Academy launch the Rural Health Collaborative.
• VitalChat names Alan Young, MD, MBA general manager.
• Waystar will present at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference January 12 in San Francisco.

Blog Posts

• Denial Management Trends, Challenges, and Innovations (AGS Health)
• CISO Brief: 7 Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026 (Fortified Health Security)
• EHR Health IT Service Desk FAQs (Med Tech Solutions)
• Opportunities for AI to empower preventive healthcare (Wolters Kluwer Health)
• Season of Clarity: The Life Changing Power of Early Autism Technology (Netsmart)
• If you want AI to think like a clinician, show it what clinicians see (Nordic)
• What Healthcare Executives Read Most in 2025 (Optimum Healthcare IT)
• 2025: A Year in Review (RLDatix)
• From Denials to Dollars: Turning Revenue Cycle Pain into Financial Wins (SlicedHealth)
• From Pain to Progress: Faster Benefit Verification for Specialty Medications (Surescripts)
• Federal Regulations & Standards for Credentialing and Privileging (Symplr)
• Tegria Embarks on a New Chapter (Tegria)
• Waystar + Google Cloud: How is AI transforming healthcare revenue cycle management? (Waystar)
• The top 5 revenue cycle changes for 2026: What post-acute care organizations need to know (WellSky)

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