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 “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!
