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Not even our second generational snowstorm of the year could stop ViVE Los Angeles from bringing the heat.

Agentic AI was the theme of the show, but it’s clear that category lines are only going to keep getting blurrier as agents break down the barriers to entry.

It felt like every startup had just finished supercharging their engine with the latest frontier models, and even though most healthcare orgs are open to adopting faster solutions to their problems, the toughest competition in the exhibit hall might have been buyer bandwidth.

As always, ViVE kept the spotlight on the innovation, so we’ll go ahead and follow their lead with our recap of the biggest announcements from the show.

• athenahealth launched new agentic patient communication tools across its provider network, giving patients around-the-clock access to a virtual assistant at their doctor’s office that can help with tasks like answering basic questions or scheduling appointments.

• Artisight integrated Epic MyChart Bedside TV with its smart hospital platform, transforming in-room televisions into an Epic-aware hub for inpatient care and patient engagement.

• b.well Connected Health kept its hot streak going with bailey, a white-label health AI assistant. Orgs can embed bailey directly into their own apps to deliver modern patient experiences – finding care, managing medications, scheduling appointments, navigating benefits – without doing the heavy lifting of building the AI from scratch.

• Canvas Medical showcased its new Canvas Plugin Assistant that effectively eliminates any coding skill requirements for customizing the Canvas EMR platform or building agents on top of it.

• Care Continuity debuted CarePath IQ to give health systems better visibility into their patients’ follow-up care plans, navigation pathways, and provider handoffs – inside and outside the network.

• CLEAR rolled out its CLEAR1 platform at Mount Sinai Health System to give patients and employees a single, secure identity across the entire ecosystem.

• DiMe announced that CMS made the DiMe Seal a required on-ramp for digital health applications in the upcoming Medicare App Library, meaning they’ll have to complete a defined benchmark across evidence, security, and usability if they want to get in front of 86M beneficiaries.

• Dock Health deployed its productivity platform at Mayo Clinic to streamline referral workflows and optimize operations across its cardiovascular, econsult, and specialty contract programs.

• Fabric took the lid off Evo, a nationwide virtual care benefit that consolidates high-demand services into a unified experience: Urgent Care, Talk Therapy, Mental Health Med Mgmt, and Weight Loss.

• Heidi was everywhere at this one. They scored a hat trick with the launch of a fully integrated Heidi Evidence tool that brings clinical evidence to workflows without any advertising baggage, the acquisition of UK-based clinical AI pioneer AutoMedica, and the debut of Heidi Comms to give care teams an AI partner for coordinating patient communications.

• Hyro equipped its AI agents with clinically validated content and decision logic courtesy of WebMD Ignite, moving conversational AI flows beyond simple Q&As with guided actions like specialty routing and appointment scheduling.

• Innovaccer joined forces with Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute to expand access to guideline-directed heart failure management from Story Health, its recently acquired virtual specialty care and patient monitoring platform that not-so-coincidentally has one of the best HF management programs in town.

• Kontakt.io added to its flurry of new solutions with Patient Flow Agent, an orchestration agent that puts real-time operations signals from RTLS and the EHR in context so frontline caregivers can make the best decision for the patient and hospital. The RTLS component stands to unlock some big improvements for length of stay and delays, AKA revenue and experience.

• Luma Health shared updates on its Operational AI platform that executes complex healthcare workflows from start to finish rather than optimizing isolated tasks. Over 50 health systems used Luma-powered AI workflows to save two million staff hours in 2025.

• NewDays laid out its unique cognitive treatment platform that blends human and AI elements to help patients delay symptoms and preserve independence. The approach combines clinical assessments and psychotherapy with an AI companion named Sunny for exercises and support between visits. Their CIO Daniel is also awesome.

• RevSpring debuted its first dedicated MCP server to give developers a grounding layer that connects AI models with data like provider quality, real-time availability, plan networks, and cost transparency – without the usual agent lag. The launch arrives as the ink is still drying on RevSpring’s acquisition of Trust Commerce.

• TigerConnect took the lid off its new AI-powered Operator Console to replace legacy operator favorites (spreadsheets and Post-Its) with a cloud-native smart switchboard. Operator Console centralizes calls, code activations, and facility alarms in a unified interface, along with intelligent call routing and AI-recommended next best steps.

• Wheel expanded its Horizon virtual care platform with a Clinical Action Layer that ingests patient and partner data (AI, wearables, labs, records), generates clinician-ready summaries, and intelligently routes patients into orchestrated workflows. It also debuted its new WheelX exchange that connects enterprises with the AI experiences built on Horizon.

• Withings Health Solutions was showcasing its BPM Pro 2 connected blood pressure monitor and Body Pro smart scale, the dynamic device duo that MedStar Health is bringing to its Signature concierge medicine service to make the patient and provider experiences feel like consumer experiences. Their VP of VBC Patrick Sheehan also happens to be a fantastic interview.

• Wolters Kluwer opened up its expert-curated medication data to AI developers with its Medi-Span Expert AI MCP that lets them easily spin up their own agentic AI workflows. Medi-Span’s safety guardrails have made it the go-to medication support for pretty much everybody that values accuracy over off-the-shelf convenience.

Many thanks to all of our awesome readers who caught us up on the latest and greatest at the show, and we’re looking forward to running it back at HIMSS in a couple weeks. Smash that reply button and let’s set something up!

Hot chicken, cold weather, and artificial intelligence – ViVE Nashville had it all.

Over 10,000 attendees made the trip to Music City, making the event roughly a third larger than the last time it was in town in 2023. About a hundred of those attendees even stuck around for the last day, risking the snow (and flight delays) to bask in more innovation.

Many of the themes on the show floor were familiar (AI, point solution fatigue, ROI is king), but there were also plenty of new issues that were clearly top of mind, particularly Medicare & Medicaid reform, cybersecurity, and the mounting pressures facing payors.

True to form, ViVE kept the spotlight on the vendors, so we’ll follow their lead and dive right into some of the biggest announcements from the show.

• Abridge crossed the 100 health system milestone and locked a $250M Series D in the process, but the even bigger story was its debut of a new Contextual Reasoning Engine that produces billable notes at the point of care. More to come on this one next week.

• Ambience Healthcare notched a massive partnership with Cleveland Clinic after coming out on top of “a rigorous pilot program” throughout 2024. The AI platform for documentation, CDI, and coding will be rolling out enterprise-wide this year.

• Arcadia launched new solutions to help payers and providers drive high-performing networks, simplify VBC contract creation, and enhance provider management efforts. A new AI Factory development platform is also slated to be showcased at HIMSS.

• AvaSure showcased its new virtual care assistant Vicky, which uses AI to collect and prioritize in-room requests to help care teams be everywhere they need to be. The beautiful hardware demos were a nice bonus.

• Clearsense unveiled its new Nashville HQ and the strategic rebrand of its active archiving solution (which now supports accounts receivable workdown requirements) and RevealCS data lakehouse offering. CEO Jason Rose is also a great interview.

• IKS Health expanded its Scribble suite with Scribble Now, a generative AI ambient scribe that rounds out the five-product lineup with real-time clinical documentation.

• Innovaccer made a big splash with the launch of its Agents of Care, AI agents designed to slash administrative burdens for everyone from clinicians, care managers, risk coders, patient navigators, and call center agents. 

• Kontakt.io bolstered its Patient Flow offering with Rapid Room Turnover, an RLTS-powered solution that detects discharges in real-time to help hospitals drive greater bed utilization and cut down on costly extended lengths of stay.

• Lumeris introduced its Tom AI-powered team member for primary care. Tom produces personalized, next-best actions at both the patient and population levels embedded within clinical workflows.

• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center joined forces with AWS to build a novel longitudinal data resource for cancer research, which will serve as a way to accelerate AI-driven clinical studies and personalized treatment development.

• Nabla took the lid off Nabla Dictation, a voice-to-text solution fine-tuned for 55 specialties that streamlines clinical workflows by transcribing speech wherever the cursor is placed (AKA anywhere in the EHR).

• symplr debuted a first-of-its-kind symplr Operations Platform built on AWS that consolidates fragmented systems and standardizes non-clinical / administrative operations. This was definitely a major announcement so we’ll be circling back on it at HIMSS.

• Talkdesk agent tools and persistent call controls can now be embedded directly in Epic for the first time, creating a seamless contact center integration with the EHR. 

Special thanks to all of our readers who were at the show and caught us up on the latest and greatest. For those of you holding onto more announcements for HIMSS, we’d love to connect in Vegas. Hit reply and let’s set something up!

ViVE Los Angeles is officially a wrap, and the collaborative event between HLTH and CHIME keeps growing up right before our eyes.

The show’s third year eased up on the flashy displays and DJs that were hard to miss in Miami and Nashville in favor of a more down-to-business approach, not unlike the AI conversations happening in the expo hall.

True to form, the vendors were the stars of the show, so we’ll follow ViVE’s lead and get right into some of the biggest announcements that came out of La La Land:

• Arcadia unveiled its next-generation data platform powered by an open lakehouse architecture. We won’t pretend to know exactly what that means, but it’ll apparently be a nice boost to Arcadia’s population health and value-based care capabilities.

• Artera gave an update on its digital health marketplace, which now includes 50+ vendors after bringing on newcomers like Azara Healthcare, Health iPASS, and Memora Health. Artera’s Message API now receives a whopping 150 million calls each year.

• AvaSure rolled out its Episodic virtual care solution that allows care teams to seamlessly collaborate regardless of location around admissions, discharges, rounds, and specialty consults.

• Biofourmis is partnering with GE HealthCare to enhance continuity of care during transitions from the hospital to the home. Biofourmis’ care-at-home solutions will extend GE HealthCare’s inpatient monitoring portfolio.

• Brightside Health announced a string of new payor partnerships to support Medicaid and Medicare after moving into the space a few months ago. The big name roster includes CareOregon, Blue Shield of California, BCBS of Texas, and Centene.

• CancerX revealed the 16 members of its inaugural Startup Accelerator, which includes a healthy mix of up-and-comers across clinical research, diagnosis, treatment, operations, and care experience. 

• DeepScribe is working with Amazon Web Services to scale purpose-built healthcare LLMs, and is incorporating AWS HealthScribe into its platform while also making its ambient documentation tool available to health systems through AWS Marketplace.

• Elevance is launching a digital weight management program for employer clients of its CarelonRx PBM. Users who are prescribed GLP-1s will have access to medication management support and a digital companion module.

• Gozio released new data showing that 86% of patients who received medical care in the last year used a mobile device when interacting with their provider. Although using a single platform to reach their provider is important to nearly all patients, 46% are still using multiple.

• Highmark is joining forces with Epic and Google to bring more data to the point of care. Epic’s Payer Platform will enable “bidirectional” data sharing between the payor and providers, while Google Cloud will allow the tech to integrate with Highmark’s existing systems.

• Included Health is embedding the CDC’s Healthy Days measure into its navigation service following a successful two year pilot.

• Vale Health made its grand debut as it looks to build an online marketplace of vetted wellness offerings for consumers, and it already has sixteen health systems in its corner.

• Veda Health is teaming up with Humana to improve the accuracy of its provider directories and ensure that seniors have real-time details about in-network providers. Love to see this come full circle after Veda got its start in a Humana hackathon back in 2016.

• Xealth’s Digital Health Review showed how digital tools are reshaping surgery, chronic care, and preventive services. Preventive care programs are seeing the highest levels of patient engagement, while surgery preparation programs see the highest enrollment.

Huge thanks to all of our readers who were in LA and took the time to walk us through the latest and greatest. For everyone holding onto more announcements for HIMSS, we’d love to connect in Orlando. Hit reply and let’s get it on the books!

Over 7,500 ViVE Nashville attendees are packing up their cowboy boots and heading home after a beautiful few days in Music City, U.S.A.

The generative AI hype cycle was almost loud enough to drown out the live musicians scattered throughout the venue, but it didn’t stop other stories from breaking through the noise, such as the brightening outlook for digital therapeutics in the wake of AppliedVR’s newly issued reimbursement code.

ViVE stayed true to form and kept the spotlight on the vendors, so we’ll follow their lead and dive right into some of the biggest announcements from the show.

• Atropos Health unveiled its Atropos Evidence Network that allows physicians to surface answers to their clinical questions from the most appropriate data set across dozens of partner organizations such as ASCO CancerLinQ and Mayo Clinic.

• AvaSure and Equum Medical showcased their virtual monitoring collaboration that combines AvaSure’s room monitoring hardware / software with Equum’s staff / monitoring services hosted from a new Virtual Care Collaboration Center in Nashville.

• Amazon Web Services announced the 23 startups participating in its latest healthcare accelerator that provides mentorship to companies tackling problems across three core areas in dire need of new solutions: retention, deployment, and training.

• Brightside Health detailed the findings of its recent study which found that patients who supplemented psychotherapy with video lessons based on the Unified Protocol saw significantly greater reduction in both depression and anxiety symptoms.

• DiMe and Moffitt Cancer Center are teaming up to lay the foundation needed to meet the Cancer Moonshot’s ambitious goal of cutting the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years – big news that we’ll circle back on in the coming weeks.

• Infermedica is expanding its API capabilities to include AI-driven patient intake workflows that initiate medical data collection prior to consultations to improve clinician efficiency and personalize the patient experience.

• Notable is deploying its intelligent automation platform across Wisconsin-based Marshfield Clinic Health System’s entire organization (1,200 providers, 60 clinics, 11 hospitals) to create a better overall experience for 310k+ patients.
• Philips debuted its comprehensive Virtual Care Management solution that combines condition-specific protocols with connected devices and engagement tools to deliver data / insights that enable timely interventions and workflow efficiencies.

• Propeller Health and UC Davis Health announced a collaboration that will offer personalized treatment for high-risk patients with asthma and COPD by leveraging Propeller’s RPM sensors, mobile app, and targeted support. 

• Transcarent is incorporating Care Journey’s quality and cost insights to equip patients with digestible provider profiles, cost benchmarks, and quality measures across specialties such as orthopedics, cardiology, gynecology, primary care, and pediatrics.

• Trilliant Health released its health plan price transparency solution that blends its proprietary provider directory and market analytics with data from payor transparency files to reveal the negotiated reimbursements between health plans and providers for any service.

• Verana Health launched its first Data-as-a-Service product, Qdata Anti-VEGF Market Tracker, which tracks real-world usage of anti-VEGF therapies in de-identified patients with retinal conditions while providing granular market segmentation.

Special thanks to all of our readers who were at the show and caught us up on the latest and greatest. For those of you holding onto more announcements for HIMSS, we’d love to connect in Chicago. Hit reply and let’s set something up!