Healthcare AI Guy Weekly | 3/25

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Provider execs’ views on the AI opportunity

A new Accenture report reveals that while healthcare leaders are excited about generative AI, most provider organizations are stuck in pilot mode, missing out on the broader benefits of scaling. Despite 60% of executives expecting financial returns within a year, fewer than 10% are investing in the infrastructure needed to support enterprise-wide deployment. Accenture found major misalignment in the C-suite, especially around sourcing AI expertise and redefining job roles. The report urges providers to move beyond small-scale experiments, build strong digital foundations, and collaborate strategically—especially with clinical leaders—to unlock productivity, efficiency, and long-term ROI from generative AI. (link)

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Most innovative AI companies in healthcare

Fast Company released its annual Most Innovative Companies List, highlighting businesses across all industries “that are doing things differently.” The list includes 15 healthcare-specific companies and below are the AI winners:

• Abridge: AI-powered platform that transcribes and structures clinician-patient conversations, integrates with EHRs like Epic, and supports over 28 languages, aimed at reducing clinician burnout and documentation burden.

• WellRithms: Uses AI to detect and prevent medical overbilling, helping payors and employers ensure fair, transparent healthcare costs.

• AISAP: Offers an AI-assisted diagnosis platform that supports clinicians in identifying accurate diagnoses quickly, improving decision-making and patient outcomes.

• Apella: Enhances surgical operations with AI and computer vision, optimizing OR scheduling, staffing, and efficiency to ensure timely and well-coordinated procedures.

• Infinitus: Builds AI voice agents that automate routine administrative phone calls in healthcare, reducing hold times and freeing up staff for higher-value work.

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Dr. Oz’s AI vision for CMS

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Trump’s pick to lead CMS, spotlighted AI as a key tool for modernizing healthcare. Oz emphasized AI’s potential to reduce clinician paperwork, speed up prior authorization, and flag fraud within Medicare Advantage. He proposed slashing the number of procedures requiring prior auth from 15,000 to 1,000, calling current processes wasteful and burdensome. While his AI remarks were largely uncontroversial, he stressed the need for guardrails to prevent misuse. Oz positioned technology as a means to streamline care and ease patient frustration: an optimistic vision for CMS’s future. (link)

Tools & Partnerships 🔧

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

TOOLS

• New AI’s near-perfect cancer detection: Researchers just unveiled an AI model called ECgMLP that identifies endometrial cancer with 99.26% accuracy from microscopic tissue images—drastically outperforming human specialists and current automated methods. ECgMLP uses specialized attention mechanisms to spot cancer cells in microscopic tissue images that doctors might miss during standard analysis. (link)

• Google health AI updates: Google showcased new health features including Medical Records APIs for Health Connect, which now lets users read and write medical data across multiple apps in FHIR format. Google also improved its Search and AI Overviews to deliver better information for complex medical questions. They also released xGemma, a collection of open models for AI-powered drug discovery. (link)

• Tennr’s new automation tools: Tennr launched tools to automate intake and eligibility workflows. Workspace streamlines referrals and operations, while the Eligibility tool ensures health plan coverage via APIs and phone follow-ups. (link)

• Akido Labs pilots AI-led patient visits with 92% diagnostic accuracy: Akido Labs is testing an AI tool that enables medical assistants to run entire patient visits—from intake to diagnosis—reviewed later by a physician. Piloted in a cardiology clinic, the tool has been used in ~450 visits with a 92% top-three diagnosis accuracy. (link)

• Infinitus agents help ease admin burden: 69% of healthcare workers say admin tasks hinder patient care, and staff shortages remain a top concern. Two-thirds believe AI agents could help by offloading routine work—potentially improving patient experience too, with AI voice agents cutting call times by 12%. (link)

• Instacart launches AI-backed tools to find healthy foods: Instacart is rolling out multiple features it says will make it easier for users to make healthy choices, headlined by its AI-powered Smart Shop. Users can select from 14 dietary preference options, including gluten-free, low-calorie, or pescatarian, to tailor their shopping. (link)

• Canvas Medical launches Hyperscribe, an open-source AI EMR copilot: Canvas Medical built Hyperscribe, an open-source AI clinical copilot that integrates with any large language model and enables customizable, action-oriented EMR documentation. Canvas emphasizes transparency with public source code and benchmarks, aiming to modernize EMRs with a developer-friendly, human-centered design. (link)

• OMNY adds 4B unstructured notes to data platform: OMNY Health has added 4 billion unstructured clinical notes to its platform, enriching the profiles of 80 million de-identified patients with deeper context. The data, cleaned and structured for research use, helps answer complex clinical questions and train AI models on real-world patient information. (link)

• Muse launches AI headband for brain and oxygen monitoring: Muse released Muse S Athena, a headband wearable combining EEG and sensors to measure both brain activity and oxygen levels for AI-powered cognitive fitness training. (link)

PARTNERSHIPS

• CityMD + Notable: Urgent care provider CityMD inked a multi-year partnership with Notable to integrate AI and automation technology into its nearly 200 clinics. It plans to use Notable's AI and automation technology to tackle administrative tasks like scheduling, messaging, patient registration and intake, and payments. (link)

• Artisight + KARL STORZ + NVIDIA: Artisight and KARL STORZ are expanding their partnership by integrating NVIDIA’s Jetson AI platform to deliver real-time surgical insights. The new Pathway.AI solution uses computer vision and ambient listening to automate OR tasks like notifying staff when surgery ends or a room needs cleaning. (link)

• Microsoft + Inait: Microsoft is partnering with neuroscience AI startup Inait to develop brain-inspired AI that learns from real-world experiences rather than data patterns. (link)

• Connecticut Children's + Xerox: Hartford-based Connecticut Children's is utilizing AI to allow emergency department nurses to prepare more effectively for procedures and use predictive analytics to reduce heart-associated risks in pediatric cancer patients. (link)

• MSU Health Care + Avo: The Michigan health system rolled out the AI CDS platform across its outpatient locations. (link)

• Life Link III + Playback Health: The medical flights provider selected the AI ambient scribe for clinical documentation of medical encounters in-flight. (link)

Deal Desk 💸 

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

FUNDING

• Proscia, a Philadelphia-based provider of pathology digitization software, raised $50M from Insight Partners. (link)

• Vori Health, a virtual MSK platform, raised a $53M Series B funding round. Led by NEA and with continued support from AlleyCorp, Intermountain Health's Intermountain Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, and Max Ventures. (link)

• Inspiren, a NYC-based AI-powered senior living solutions provider, raised $35M in Series A funding. Avenir led the round and was joined by Primary Venture Partners, Story Ventures, Third Prime, and Studio VC. (link)

• Brain.space, an Israeli startup using neurological data to create large mental models, raised $11M in Series A funding. Toyota Ventures led, and was joined by Mangrove Capital Partners and The Group Ventures. (link)

• Olio Labs, a San Francisco-based AI-powered therapeutic design biotech, raised $4.5M in funding. Boom Capital and Overwater Ventures led the round and were joined by Pioneer Fund, SciFounders, Scrum Ventures, and others. (link)

• Reactwise, a London, UK-based company developing software solutions for chemical reactions, raised £2.6M in pre-seed funding. The round was backed by Y Combinator, the UK government, and others. (link)

• Mito Health, an AI-powered consumer longevity startup, secured an additional $2.2M in seed funding from YC and others. (link)

Other Relevant News 🔍

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

• Digital Medicine Society, Google Health launch free course on genAI (link)

• Sanford Health's AI bet pays off: 'Everyone reported improvements' (link)

• UW Health to quadruple AI tool users in 2025 (link)

• UCSF Health creates new AI executive role (link)

• AI capabilities following ‘Moore's Law’(link)

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