News 4/8/26

Top News

Insight Health raises an $11 million Series A funding round.

The company offers voice and text AI agents for clinical and administrative tasks.

Sponsored Events and Resources

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Behavioral EHR vendor Qualifacts acquires MethodOne, which offers dispensing software for opioid treatment programs.

Sales

• University of Toledo Health (OH) selects Nabla’s AI-based clinical documentation software.
• NYC Health + Hospitals will implement PeriGen’s Vigilance early warning and clinical decision technology for maternal and fetal care.

People

Veradigm hires Christian Greyenbuhl, CPA (Ministry Brands) as CFO.

Arcadia names Chris Rallo (AWS) as chief product officer and Amy Bagge-Smith, JD (Zus Health) as chief counsel and head of regulatory affairs.

Announcements and Implementations

PrognoCIS EHR developer Bizmatics announces GA of its PrognoAI Suite, which includes AI-powered scribe, chat assistant, and health summary tools.

OSF HealthCare Saint Katharine Medical Center (IL) goes live on Epic as part of an enterprise implementation.

Houston Methodist implements the Medication Administration Protection System from Salus.

Waystar launches a Recoupment Manager tool to help providers automate payer payment reconciliation processes.

Concord Medical Group deploys AI scribe and clinical decision support software from DocAssistant across its emergency department network.

Government and Politics

The White House’s proposed budget for FY2027 includes a record $488 billion for the VA, which represents a 7.7% increase. The funding includes the restart of the VA’s EHR implementation.

Privacy and Security

Signature Healthcare and Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital (MA) remain on downtime procedures and ambulance diversion after a cybersecurity incident on Monday forced them to take their systems offline.

Online health and wellness prescription delivery company Hims & Hers discloses that its third-party customer support vendor was breached in early February, resulting in the theft of user request data from its customer support team.

Other

The New York Times profiles the high-end theatrical experience magic venue called The Hand &  the Eye, which is being developed by health tech entrepreneur and magic fan Glenn Tullman with $50 million of his own money. The 35,000 square foot venue, which is housed in a renovated Gilded Age Chicago mansion, will feature five magic performance spaces, seven bars, two dining rooms, and a roster of 22 magicians. It will open on April 18. Tullman’s greatest trick was making most of Teladoc’s market cap disappear by selling them the largely forgotten Livongo for $18.5 billion, proving that he’s a master of illusion even off the stage.

Also in the Times: TikTokers who are seeking algorithm-driven views and supportive comments are filming themselves opening up their newly delivered MyChart results, some of them involving life-altering information about cancer or other serious situations that neither they nor their doctor have reviewed. The author summarizes:

Each delivers a carefully calibrated sequence of uncertainty (what’s the result?), resolution (here’s the result) and emotional payoff (the tears, the sadness, the relief) that is extremely effective at keeping a viewer engaged … It’s no coincidence that the same template is used for videos about people receiving all manner of big news, from bar exam results to pregnancy and DNA tests … The more I watched, the more I felt that people were scratching their tickets in the lottery of 21st-century American life, hoping that the medical results — or, barring that, the views and financial rewards they could rack up online — would go their way.

Sponsor Updates

• AGS Health expands its data security portfolio with HITRUST i1 certification.
• Five9 names Jay Lee (Icertis) chief marketing and growth officer.
• Netsmart will offer EarliPoint’s early autism spectrum disorder assessment and diagnosis technology to its customers.
• RLDatix’s Connected Healthcare Summit draws more than 400 health system leaders as it advances AI-powered patient safety and provider performance solutions.
• Black Book Research releases the “2026 State of Digital Healthcare in Post-Acute Care Report.”
• Five9 hires Jay Lee as chief marketing and growth officer.
• Clinical Architecture and its partners offer a new white paper titled “How Clinical Informatics Improve Veteran Health Outcomes.”
• CloudWave will present at the 2026 HIMSS AZ-WA West Coast Regional Summit April 16 in Westin Tempe, AZ.

Blog Posts

• Fixing the Root Causes of Clinical Denials (AGS Health)
• Hesitation is expensive: Decide medical necessity early (Altera Digital Health)
• What To Know About CMS’ 10-Year Bet on Accountable Care with LEAD (Arcadia)
• 7 Things the Acquired Podcast Nails About Epic and 1 Big Oversimplification (Canopii Collaborative)
• Identity Under Pressure: Why Access Management Is Now a Patient Safety Issue in Healthcare (Clearwater)

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