In February 2025 we tracked 69 healthcare IT news stories, including a large number of announcements surrounding ViVE mid-month. Here, we’re summarizing the month’s news—finding the signal in the noise—so you can stay abreast of the most important trends you may have missed.
1. AI Scribe Implementations Are Still Going Strong
Another month, another group of large health systems announced enterprise-wide AI ambient scribe rollouts.
Generally speaking, though, rural and community hospitals and health centers opted for other players. North East Medical Services (NEMS) selected Commure to roll-out across its clinic locations through an Epic integration, and CHC, which operates 23 community-based hospitals nationwide, announced it would be rolling out CarePilot.
Also of note: Cedars Sinai announced a pilot with Aiva, an AI scribe specifically for nurses.
2. EHR Integrations Are a Core Driver for Disruptors
EHR integration continues to be key in vendors’ distribution strategies, with Epic playing a central role. Emphasizing that fact, Epic even announced a one-day conference just for vendors looking to integrate within the EHR.
A few new rollouts: Talkdesk’s AI-powered contact center solution now integrates directly into the Epic interface, identity verification solution CLEAR is under construction in Epic Toolbox, and Glooko’s diabetes RPM platform became available via Epic’s Showroom, providing data access for providers directly in the EHR.
The integration strategy seems to be proving effective. For example, outside of Epic, Moab Regional Hospital adopted Avo through its MEDITECH integration. Not to be left out of the action, ambulatory EHR CharmHealth announced a new vendor marketplace as well.
3. Funding Trends: AI-Powered RCM and Administrative Tech Draw Investor Interest
Investor funding remains strong across revenue cycle management (RCM) and administrative automation. Candid Health secured a $52.5M Series C for AI-driven claims management, Lynx raised a $27M Series A for its patient payments platform, and VoiceCare AI launched with $3.85M for AI prior auth and eligibility checking automation.
On the clinical administration side, AI inbox management vendor Affineon announced a $5M seed round, and clinical workflow management startup Keragon closed a $7.5M seed round.
4. AI Patient Engagement: Lots of Activity, but Few Major Implementations in February
Vendors in the patient engagement space—patient scheduling, intake, assessments, and feedback—are hard at work releasing new solutions:
Press Ganey and Microsoft are partnering to build GenAI-powered patient communications and feedback solutions.
Drive Health released its flagship product, Nurse Avery, in partnership with Google Public Sector; the AI chatbot promises to fulfill scheduling, patient assessment, and care plan management functionality.
Kyruus Health integrated with Abundant Health Acquisition (aha!), which offers data infrastructure and content management systems for patient acquisition.
Innovaccer released a suite of AI agents to complete tasks like scheduling, intake, referrals, PA documentation collection, and more.
CentralReach, a software vendor for autism and IDD care, integrated AI.Measures for mental health assessment.
Despite the number of product partnerships and updates this month, we saw only one implementation of these AI engagement solutions: First Choice Neurology selected Healow via the eClinicalWorks EHR. While we’ve seen earlier waves of adoption in AI engagement tools, it remains to be seen whether these updates will drive new rollouts. (Of course, if you know about a patient engagement software rollout we missed, you can always share partnership news with us here.)
Other Resources You May Have Missed
In case you missed it, here’s a quick roundup of other resources we shared this month:
