Healthcare AI Guy Weekly | 12/17

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Big ideas in tech 2025

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) recently published its “Big Ideas in Tech 2025” list, inviting 50 of the firm’s partners to highlight a single, transformative idea poised to fuel innovation in 2025. Below are four standout concepts from the a16z Bio + Health partners:

• Democratizing health through tech: In recent years, accessible health tech—AI-driven biomarkers, wearable biometric monitors, and full-body screening—has empowered patients. By enabling proactive prevention, early detection, and personalized insights, these tools gradually transform “sick care” into patient-centered, true healthcare practices.

• Super staffing for healthcare: Healthcare is battling unprecedented clinical staff shortages while over-relying on humans for administrative tasks. In 2025, AI “super staffing” platforms will emerge, boosting workforce efficiency and unlocking labor budgets, ushering in a transformative era for healthcare operations.

• Big swings in biopharma: In 2025, biotechs are targeting major diseases again, fueled by GLP-1 drugs driving a $100B market and breakthroughs like CAR-T therapy for autoimmune diseases. Expect a wave of innovation tackling our biggest diseases.

• Drug targets are avocados: Biological targets are like avocados: too early, too late, or just right. Startups in 2025 must use tech and AI to uncover emerging targets fast, staying ahead in a fierce, global race for new medicines.

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Rock Health’s innovation curve

Rock Health’s refreshed Innovation Maturity Curve highlights key 2024 trends, focusing on the interplay of research, funding, and partnerships. One standout is AI in healthcare, which entered a “Developing” stage after raising $3.3B through Q3 (36% of total funding) and notching over 80 industry partnerships. Although research momentum is plateauing, the sector is shifting from hype to practical applications and commercialization. The coming year will likely see AI consolidation, as top providers and Big Tech players battle for dominant positions in core markets like ambient documentation. With juggernauts such as Epic enhancing solutions, AI enablement will become table stakes instead of a differentiator. The year ahead promises to be a pivotal chapter for healthcare AI! (link)

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Ranking nurse AI potential

McKinsey surveyed over 5k nurses to rank the eight AI use cases with the most potential to improve patient care or nursing workloads. Nurses felt AI would be “very helpful” for (1) enhancing medication management: 74%, (2) eliminating tasks to increase job satisfaction: 73%, (3) improving productivity: 72%, (4) patient education: 71%, (5) clinical education: 70%, (6) streamlining administrative tasks: 70%, (7) synthesizing progress notes and medical records: 68%, and (8) improving diagnosis accuracy and clinical decision support: 66%. (link)

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Tools & Partnerships 🔧

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

TOOLS

• Corti debuts real-time AI assistant for providers: Corti, founded in 2016, is launching an AI assistant that interacts with providers in real-time. The AI assistant takes notes, provides billing codes, does quality assurance of the visit, cross-checks medical guidelines, can chat with the provider during and after the visit, and continuously adapts to provider preferences. (link)

• athenahealth new RCM AI capabilities: athenahealth introduced new AI capabilities to streamline RCM for thousands of physician practices using its cloud-based athenaOne platform. AI Insurance Package Selection automatically reads insurance card images and recommends the correct package for future claims filing, and has an auto claim create feature. (link)

• AI-powered virtual hospital concept used in training: A large AI-generated hospital setting will be used in China next year to train AI doctors to learn to diagnose patients more accurately. (link)

• Microsoft AI putting together consumer health division: CEO Mustafa Suleyman is putting together a new London-based consumer health division, recruiting key ex-DeepMind health experts. (link)

• Aidoc developed foundation model for CT imaging: The AI imaging clinical decision support company, Aidoc, announced Clinical AI Reasoning Engine, Version 1 (CARE1), a foundation model for CT imaging. (link)

• Stanford scientists call for global effort to create AI virtual cell: Stanford researchers proposed a global initiative to create an AI-powered virtual human cell to revolutionize biological understanding and drug development through computational modeling. (link)

PARTNERSHIPS

• MultiCare + Xsolis: Washington-based MultiCare Health System will be the first to pilot Xsolis’ new GenAI solution, helping clinicians streamline documentation and speed up appeal letter submissions. Since 2017, MultiCare has saved over $8M by meeting health plan deadlines for proper reimbursements. (link)

• Children's National + Microsoft: Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., is partnering with Microsoft to explore how generative AI can improve pediatric care — starting with documentation, streamlining policy access, boosting medication reminders, and lowering clinician workload. (link)

• UChicago Medicine + Abridge: UChicago Medicine expands Abridge’s AI to 1,000 clinicians, improving documentation, enhancing patient and provider experiences, increasing capacity, and refining emergency workflows. (link)

• Vituity + Sayvant: The physician partnership expanded its co-development and design partnership with the acute-focused AI ambient scribe, announcing an enterprise-level agreement. (link)

• Franciscan Missionaries + Cytovale: The Louisiana-based health system expanded its implementation of the AI inpatient risk monitoring vendor’s sepsis detection solution, Intellisep, to Our Lady of the Lake Ascension hospital. (link)

Deal Desk 💸 

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

FUNDING

• Aqemia, a French biotech that leverages theoretical physics and GenAI, raised $38M. Cathay Innovation led, and was joined by Wendel, Bpifrance Large Venture, Eurazeo, and Elaia. (link)

• Hyro AI, a healthcare-specific no-code platform for AI-powered call center, web and mobile solutions, raised $35M in an extension of its series B round, recently securing an investment from Healthier Capital, led by former One Medical CEO Amir Rubin. Macquarie Capital, Liberty Mutual and Black Opal Ventures also joined the round. (link)

• Evidently, an AI platform for healthcare workflows, raised $15M in Series A funding. DN Capital led, and was joined by Framework, Clear Ventures, and Fellows Fund. (link)

• Tuva Health, a Salt Lake City-based startup that cleans and analyzes healthcare data, raised $5M in seed funding. Virtue led, and was joined by Box Group and YC. (link)

FUNDRAISING

• Redesign Health: The startup builder Redesign raised $175M for a fresh fund to launch innovative healthcare companies. The fund is Redesign’s largest to date, and it will likely fund more than 20 companies. (link)

Other Relevant News 🔍

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

• Economists say AI can narrow U.S. deficits by democratizing healthcare (link)

• Health systems opening AI hubs (link)

• OpenAI’s new Sora video model — we made a healthcare AI video (link)

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