Core Clinical & Diagnostic Innovations
Real-World Evidence (RWE) Agent Pilot: Atropos Health, in collaboration with Microsoft, is piloting the Atropos Evidence™ Agent at Stanford Health Care. This expert agent generates patient-specific RWE integrated into the EHR workflow, leveraging ambient data from Dragon Copilot and patient records from Stanford’s ChatEHR to proactively inform treatment options without the physician needing to ask a question.
Agentic Radiology & Imaging: GE HealthCare AI Lab announced projects focused on Agentic AI for Radiology, working to develop the industry’s first agentic AI diagnostic imaging assistant integrated directly into devices. The goal is to create orchestration software that processes scans, allows natural language interaction, and generates interactive reports, moving beyond traditional image analysis.
MRI Foundation Model Honing: GE HealthCare is collaborating with Mass General Brigham and the University of Wisconsin–Madison to fine-tune its MRI research foundation model (trained on over 200,000 images). This collaboration is critical for validating the model’s adaptability for prostate use cases (MGB) and operational challenges like image quality control (UW-Madison).
Goals of Care Summarization: The Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute launched the BRIDGE-SIC Pilot. This study uses LLMs (Large Language Models) to extract and summarize Serious Illness Conversations (SIC) documentation from free-text EHRs, ensuring that patient preferences and goals of care are communicated in seconds to inpatient teams.
Care Gap Detection at Scale: Pangaea Data launched a next-generation platform that uses AI to emulate clinical reasoning at scale. The platform analyzes structured and unstructured data to flag patients who are missed for appropriate screening or treatment (e.g., CKD, Cancer Cachexia), leading to earlier intervention and measurable results, such as finding six times more undiagnosed cancer cachexia patients.
Digital Physician Assistant: OpenEvidence announced a $200M fundraise to create a “ChatGPT for Medicine,” emphasizing the importance of trustworthy, real-world evidence (RWE) to back growing AI solutions used by both consumers and clinicians.
Revenue Integrity, Financial & Data Foundations
Financial and RCM Automation
Medicaid Financial Safety Net: Cedar launched Cedar Cover, an integrated AI-backed solution designed to combat the potential $63 billion rise in hospital uncompensated care due to Medicaid coverage loss. The platform automates Medicaid enrollment and renewal, denial resolution, and medication assistance, with early results showing a 30% increase in reimbursement from overturned denials.
RCM Coding Expansion: Suki expanded its ambient clinical intelligence solution to automatically generate specific CPT, E/M, ICD-10, and HCC codes from ambient listening. This enhancement provides a powerful financial advantage by achieving a 48% reduction in amended encounters and producing an estimated net gain of $379 per clinician per month.
Data & Interoperability Alliances
Harmonized Data Foundation: InterSystems and Google Cloud announced a partnership to integrate InterSystems HealthShare with Google Cloud’s ecosystem. This collaboration delivers a scalable, FHIR-ready data foundation for generative and agentic AI applications, solving data fragmentation and ensuring data is interoperable and responsibly managed.
Consumer Data Connectivity: b.well Connected Health and Google partnered to advance personalized health. The collaboration utilizes b.well’s network and proprietary Data Refinery to provide the high-quality, complete data needed for Google to empower individuals to securely control and share their health data, enabling AI-powered personalization and new Fitbit capabilities.
Consumer Experience (CX), Wellness, and Structural Shifts
New CX Platforms and Wearables
Hyper-Personalized CX: League launched League Agent Teams™ built on the League Health Story™ data foundation. This multi-agent system transforms fragmented engagement and clinical data into a dynamic, contextual, plain-language narrative, fueling 24/7 hyper-personalized navigation for benefits, care solutions, and closing care gaps.
AI-Powered Screening: Noom launched two free AI features: Face Scan (uses rPPG technology to turn a selfie into a 30-second personalized screening for biological age and vital signs) and Future Me (uses AI visualization to motivate behavior change by showing future appearance scenarios based on habits).
Advanced Diabetes Monitoring: Podimetrics launched SmartMat+, a next-generation remote monitoring solution. It tracks foot temperature (preventing ulcers), balance (reducing fall risk), and weight (monitoring heart failure complications). A pilot showed a 50% decrease in amputations over twelve months.
Value-Based Obesity Care: knownwell secured $25 million strategic financing (led by CVS Health Ventures) for its physician-led, weight-inclusive primary care model. The investment validates the model’s ability to address the $260 billion annual cost of obesity, backed by a 93% one-year sustained weight loss rate.
Strategic and Structural Shifts
Physician Governance: The AMA launched the Center for Digital Health and AI to ensure physicians are embedded in the AI lifecycle, shaping policy, integration, and training to reduce technology-related administrative burdens.
Incisionless Surgery: Petal Surgical secured $10 million Series A to advance histotripsy (acoustic liquefaction) using robotics and AI. The goal is to create a humane alternative to traditional surgery by eliminating cutting, pain, and trauma, addressing the 4.2 million annual deaths associated with complications.
Sustainable AI Research: GE HealthCare AI Lab announced research into developing energy-efficient neural networks for tomographic imaging (CT, PET, SPECT), aiming to reduce image reconstruction cycles from 40 to just six, enhancing clinical precision and sustainability.
Foundational Platform Connectivity: BD launched the BD Incada™ Connected Care Platform, which unifies data from nearly 3 million smart connected BD devices (from pharmacy to bedside) using AWS and AI analytics, providing enterprise-wide visibility into medication inventory.
Canadian EHR Modernization: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre selected Oracle Health’s AI-powered EHR to consolidate fragmented systems, synchronize operations, and enhance clinical coordination and research infrastructure for Canada’s leading trauma center.
M&A: DocGo Inc., a provider of technology-enabled mobile health and medical transportation services , has acquired SteadyMD, Inc., a virtual care platform.
