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JPM 2025 Review

The highly anticipated JPMorgan Healthcare Conference took center stage in San Francisco this week, with AI stealing much of the spotlight. Here are some of the most notable AI announcements from the event:

• CHAI launched working group for prior auth AI: The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), a nonprofit focused on creating guardrails for responsible AI, launched a working group on AI for prior auth, uniting stakeholders to develop transparent, ethical best practices.

• Waystar debuts AI for denied claims: Waystar's AltitudeAI leverages generative AI to automate appeals, enhancing provider efficiency and transforming healthcare payment workflows.

• Tempus AI enhances genAI for healthcare data: Tempus AI unveiled new GenAI-powered capabilities in Tempus One, leveraging proprietary LLMs to query unstructured healthcare data for better clinical care.

• Sutter Health strikes deal with GE Healthcare for AI imaging tech: GE Healthcare will provide AI-powered medical imaging technology and digital solutions to Sutter Health. The agreement, dubbed Care Alliance, marks one of GE HealthCare’s largest-ever enterprise strategic partnerships.

• Health Catalyst acquires Upfront: Health Catalyst plans to integrate Upfront's patient engagement platform, enhancing care orchestration and personalized patient experiences across its portfolio.

• Talkspace introduces AI tool to streamline therapy prep: Talkspace launched "Insights," an AI-powered tool that synthesizes patient data to streamline session prep and enhance therapeutic outcomes.

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Nvidia makes major healthcare AI moves

Nvidia kicked off this year’s JPM Healthcare Conference by announcing multiple new partnerships centered around scaling AI models across the industry. Applications span across genomics, drug discovery, and clinical research and are highlighted below:

• Arc Institute researchers collaborate with Nvidia to develop open-source AI models for DNA, RNA, and protein analysis.

• IQVIA is leveraging Nvidia's AI Foundry to build custom models on over 64 petabytes of healthcare data to streamline clinical trials and research.

• The company is also working with Nvidia to create AI agents that can help accelerate medical research, clinical development, and access to treatment.

• The Mayo Clinic is deploying new DGX Blackwell systems to analyze 20M pathology slides, aiming to revolutionize disease diagnosis.

• Illumina plans to integrate Nvidia's computing platforms with its genomics analysis software to accelerate drug development breakthroughs.

The chipmaking leader continues to expand its reach to nearly every sector — and partnering with healthcare leaders can position Nvidia to leverage its advanced AI and robotics to help address critical bottlenecks in drug discovery, clinical trials, and research. (link)(JPM slides)

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Bessemer 2025 predictions

Bessemer Venture Partners has released its 2025 Healthcare & Life Sciences predictions, highlighting how the healthcare and biotech sectors are navigating a transformative era. Here are the AI-related predictions:

• The U.S. healthcare system must address workforce shortages from the "silver tsunami": As the aging population outpaces caregiver supply, innovations like AI aids, caregiver payment programs, streamlined business models, and upskilling initiatives will be critical to sustain care delivery.

• Healthcare AI adoption will prioritize ROI and scalability: In 2025, organizations will move beyond pilots, focusing on scalable AI deployments with proven ROI, integration into workflows, and measurable patient outcomes to address financial and operational demands.

• Foundation model providers will expand into healthcare: Major AI companies are launching specialized healthcare models, sparking strategic shifts and raising questions about their focus—enterprise partnerships, consumer services, or niche biomedical applications.

• Multimodal clinical AI will face commercial challenges despite technical maturity: While operational use cases drive adoption, reimbursement and workflow barriers hinder the potential of multimodal AI in diagnostics, limiting its transformative impact on healthcare systems.

• AI conversation will shift in focus toward happier jobs and workforce multiplier capabilities: In 2025, AI adoption will prioritize enhancing workforce capabilities, fostering collaboration, and building trust to address shortages, improve efficiency, and redefine AI as a workforce multiplier, not a threat.

With scalable AI implementations, therapeutic breakthroughs, and novel care models on the horizon, 2025 promises to reshape the industry by addressing fundamental challenges in healthcare delivery and access through innovation, value creation, and resilience. (link)

Tools & Partnerships 🔧

Latest on business, consumer, and clinical healthcare AI tools and partnerships…

TOOLS

• Stanford adopts an AI tool to inform patients of test results: The AI interprets clinical tests and lab results, explaining them in common language, a draft that is then reviewed by physicians before being sent to patients. Stanford built the tool in-house with Amazon Bedrock, a service for developing AI applications, using a large language model from AI company Anthropic. (link)

• Peterson Health Technology Institute launches task force to assess AI solutions: The Peterson Health Technology Institute launched an AI task force to puzzle out the value of in-demand AI technologies for healthcare delivery organizations. (link)

PARTNERSHIPS

• General Catalyst + AWS: VC firm General Catalyst has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to co-develop and deploy integrated AI-driven products that address needs across predictive and personalized care, interoperability, efficiency, diagnostics, and patient engagement. (link)

• Mayo Clinic + Microsoft + Cerebras: Mayo Clinic partnered with Microsoft and Cerebras to develop AI foundational models for medical image and genomic data analysis, hoping to revolutionize personalized medicine with faster diagnostics and precise treatment predictions. (link)

• Abridge + Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic and Abridge have been working alongside Epic to develop a nursing-focused documentation solution since July, and the newly expanded collaboration builds on those efforts with the enterprise-wide rollout of the ambient AI platform to about 2,000 physicians serving over a million patients. (link)

• Broad Institute + Manifold: The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is partnering with Manifold to bring a unique life science research and development platform to investigators around the world. (link)

• Hartford Healthcare + Aidoc: The CT health system is partnering with the AI imaging CDS platform for radiology, cardiology, and neurology to implement its aiOS platform along with its care coordination and patient management solutions. (link)

Deal Desk 💸 

Spotlight on latest capital raises, M&A, and investments…

FUNDING

• Nelly, a Berlin-based administrative automation platform for the healthcare sector, raised $51.6M in Series B funding. Cathay Innovation led the round and was joined by Notion Capital and existing investors b2venture, Lakestar, Motive Ventures, and arc investors. (link)

• Bioptimus, a French foundational AI model developer focused on life sciences, raised $41M. Cathay Innovation led, and was joined by Sofinnova Partners, Bpifrance, Andera Partners, Hitachi Ventures, Boom Capital Ventures, Pomifer Capital, and Sunrise. (link)

• Slingshot AI, an NYC-based startup building a foundational model for psychology raised $40M. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with participation from the Cultural Leadership Fund and angel investors. (link)

• Solera Health, a Phoenix provider of healthcare navigation software, raised $40M. Health Care Service Corp led, and was joined by Adams Street, Cobalt Ventures, and Horizon Mutual Holdings. (link)

• Robeauté, a Paris-based neurosurgical microbots developer, raised $28M in funding. Plural, Cherry Ventures, and Kindred Ventures led the round and were joined by Brainlab. (link)

• Conceivable Life Sciences, an NYC-based automated IVF lab developer, raised $18M in Series A funding. ARTIS Ventures led the round and was joined by Atlantic Health Venture Studio, Muse Capital, Scrub Capital, existing investors ACME Capital, Black Opal Ventures, Cadence Healthcare Ventures, and others. (link)

• IntusCare, a geriatric care data analytics provider, raised $11.5M. Deerfield Management led, and was joined by Citi Impact Fund and Jumpstart Nova. (link)

• Lupa, a London-based veterinary practice management AI platform, raised $4M in seed funding from firstminute capital, 2100 Ventures, Vento, and angel investors. (link)

• Parambil, an NYC-based AI-powered medical record analysis for the legal industry, raised $2M in pre-seed funding. Daybreak Ventures led the round and was joined by angel investors. (link)

• Layer Health, an AI chart review company out of MIT, raised a strategic investment from MultiCare. (link)

• Cresta, an AI platform for call centers, raised funding from SCAN Health Plan. (link)

• Access Healthcare, a revenue cycle management group, raised a strategic growth investment from private equity firm New Mountain Capital. (link)

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

• Health Catalyst + Upfront Healthcare: Health Catalyst is scooping up patient activation and engagement platform Upfront Healthcare. The plan is to weave Upfront’s automated patient acquisition and retention solutions into Health Catalyst’s wider management services for healthcare organizations, including data and analytics, care management, and performance optimization. (link)

Other Relevant News 🔍

News, podcasts, blogs, tweets, resources, etc… 

• Not enough hospitals are testing their AI models for accuracy, bias (link)

• AI liability concerns of 532 frontline physicians and PAs (link)

• HHS' new AI strategic plan promises increased guidance and funding (link)

• AI will help docs be ‘best selves,’ says Google exec (link)

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