What You Missed in Healthcare IT: May Edition
In May 2025 we tracked 96 healthcare IT announcements across new product releases, system implementations, partnerships, and funding rounds. AI-powered tools accounted for 68% of the announcements we reviewed—comparable to the past two months and significantly higher than last year—driven by continued rollout of clinician assistants, RCM consolidation, and AI imaging enhancements. Below, we’ve pulled out the most important themes to help you track what’s being built, bought, and implemented.
1. Patient Engagement Vendors Rush to Add Voice AI
This month, at least five vendors—Cedar (Kora), Relatient (Dash Voice AI), Zo by Zocdoc, SpinSci + Omilia, and OhMD + Twilio (Nia)—released new voice AI agents for patient engagement tasks ranging from inbound scheduling and billing calls to general inquiry handling. While health system adoption is still slow (Allina Health was the only health system adoption this month, partnering with SoundHound), the volume and similarity of new releases suggest the category is moving rapidly toward commoditization. Most offerings now include basic conversational capabilities, self-service routing, and escalation to live staff. The question no longer seems to be can we build this, but which vendor has the reach, integrations, or go-to-market strength to win?
2. AI Clinician Assistants Reach Pediatrics and Expand Across EHR Ecosystems
AI scribes and clinician copilots continued to scale across diverse care settings and EHR environments.
Increased coverage of specialties and settings: Abridge rolled out a pediatric-specific well visit note template and was also selected by Dayton Children’s Hospital to support ambient documentation. Meanwhile, Office Practicum integrated a white-labeled version of InsightHealth’s ambient scribe for pediatric practices. Videra Health launched AI-powered Group Notes for behavioral health group therapy. McFarland Clinic, a multi-specialty provider, expanded its deployment of Nabla across 12 specialties, while Onvida Health began testing Ambience across outpatient, inpatient, and emergency departments.
EHR vendors integrate ambient and agentic capabilities natively: athenahealth made Suki’s AI scribe generally available through its Ambient Notes solution, while OmniMD launched AI Clinician, which combines ambient scribe, agentic task support, and clinical summaries. TruBridge announced an integration with Microsoft Dragon Copilot to embed clinical summaries into its workflows.
Knowledge-based assistants are also gaining traction: ASCO and Google Cloud launched a genAI assistant that surfaces relevant clinical guideline excerpts in response to clinician queries, and White Plains Hospital partnered with Layer Health to streamline clinical registry reporting.
3. AI Imaging Sees Modality Expansion and Platform Integration
AI innovation in medical imaging accelerated this month, with vendors releasing new AI imaging enhancement modalities, expanding clinical decision support tools, and deepening integration into radiology workflows.
New modalities and enhancement tools launched at an unprecedented clip. GE HealthCare unveiled CleaRecon DL, an AI enhancement solution for cone-beam CT, and separately partnered with Spectronic Medical to generate synthetic CT images from standard MR scans. Viz.ai released Viz 3D CTA, which transforms CT angiography scans into 3D neurovascular visualizations, another leap toward richer, more actionable imaging data.
Imaging CDS and workflow tools are consolidating into the platforms radiologists already use. RamSoft integrated Therapixel’s MammoScreen AI for breast cancer detection into its PowerServer and OmegaAI platforms, and iCAD’s ProFound Breast Health solution became available through Microsoft’s Powerscribe reporting tool. CliniComp added AI triage and transcription capabilities to its enterprise-wide PACS. Intelerad partnered with RADPAIR to bring generative and agent-based tools into radiologist workflows.
Providers express a keen interest in AI imaging tools. Meanwhile, TriHealth selected RevealDx for a lung nodule detection study, and Radiology Associates adopted Harrison.ai’s critical care AI to speed turnaround on high-priority reads. Cardiac Care Alliance began deploying Cleerly’s cardiac imaging AI across its VBC-focused network. On the investment front, Rad AI closed an additional $8M strategic investment from Advocate Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, Corewell Health, and Atlantic Health System, bringing its Series C funding total to $68M
4. AI RCM Continues to Move Toward Full-Stack Automation
As covered last month, we’re continuing to see AI RCM vendor consolidation. Nowhere is this more clearly demonstrated than in the formation of Smarter Technologies, a newly unified automation and insights platform created through the roll-up of New Mountain Capital investments Access Healthcare, SmarterDx, and Thoughtful.ai. Their consolidation under a single brand signals a bold bid to build a full-stack AI RCM platform that spans CDI, coding, revenue cycle automation, and operational analytics. In a similar vein, Infinx acquired i3 Verticals’ healthcare RCM business to broaden its automation capabilities and also announced a new integration through Epic’s Connection Hub, making it easier for health systems to embed Infinx tools across prior auth, eligibility, and billing workflows.
Several vendors also expanded core functionality. AKASA released CDI Optimizer, a new tool that reviews 100% of inpatient encounters to flag documentation gaps, and Iodine Software launched AwarePre-Bill, a “second-level CDI” solution aimed at pre-billing documentation integrity.
On the other hand, the RCM solutions to see the most actual traction in health systems this month were solutions for patient billing: Cedar, adopted by Sanford Health, and PayZen, selected by Patterson Health Center.
Other Resources You May Have Missed
In case you missed it, here’s a quick roundup of other resources we shared this month:
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This month’s conversations with healthcare leaders:
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