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ViVE 2025 Recap, Launches, and Major Announcements
February 20, 2025
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“Many health systems are currently singing two songs. Those songs can work together, but they don’t always. First: how are we taking advantage of AI? Second: what are we doing to keep costs down?”
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Kontakt.io CEO Philipp von Gilsa
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Digital Health Wire was in Nashville this week recording cowboy-boots-on-the-ground interviews with some of healthcare’s finest. We dove into the trends set to define the year and the loudest rumblings from the ViVE show floor in our rapid fire Q&As with:
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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!
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New Abridge AI Infrastructure Powers Clinically Useful and Billable Notes
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- Apple Health Study: Apple is kicking off a new study in partnership with Brigham and Women’s Hospital to glean insights into the “relationships between various areas of health, such as mental health’s impact on heart rate, or how sleep can influence exercise” using data from its devices. The Apple Health Study will enroll participants through the Research app, allowing users to control how much data they share. The research follows a trio of studies launched in 2019 on hearing, women’s health, and movement, which went on to shape new features in several Apple products.
- Robots Impersonating Humans: A state bill introduced in California could prevent AI agents from passing themselves off as human healthcare providers. If signed into law, the legislation would extend regulators’ ability to enforce title protections, which reserve the use of professional job titles for people actually holding those titles (i.e. “nurse” or “doctor”). The bill’s author, Democratic CA State Representative Mia Bonta, said that “generative AI systems are not licensed health professionals, and they shouldn’t be allowed to present themselves as such. It’s a no-brainer to me.”
- FQHCs Struggling to Find Therapists: New research in JAMA Network Open revealed how telehealth reimbursement policies are reducing access to care for the patients who need it most. The qualitative survey of six FQHCs in New York suggested that the state’s Medicaid policies (which cut telehealth reimbursement by about a third when the clinician isn’t in-office) have been a leading driver of the current workforce shortage. FQHCs sound like they’re having a hard time luring therapists into the office for virtual visits, especially when they can earn more to work from home for a different organization.
- Keragon Seed Funding: Healthcare automation platform Keragon landed $7.5M in seed funding to connect providers’ “long tail of point solutions” into a connected ecosystem. Keragon’s no-code platform allows medical professionals without an engineering background to integrate over 300 popular applications (EHRs, scheduling tools, referral systems, etc.) into their existing workflows – a value prop that’s resulted in 100 customers and over 2M workflow automations in the six months since launching.
- Patients Don’t Trust Medical AI: Patients have low trust that healthcare providers will use medical AI responsibly and protect them from AI-related harms. In a survey of 2k patients published in JAMA Network Open, only 34% said they thought their health system would use AI responsibly, and only 42% thought their provider would make sure that AI would not harm them. Researchers said the findings show a need for better communication about AI to patients and to invest in “organizational trustworthiness.”
- Kyruus’ aha! Moment: Kyruus Health is teaming up with Abundant Health Acquisition (aha!) to help health systems modernize patient journeys to keep up with rising consumer expectations. The partnership integrates Kyruus’ care access platform with aha!’s low-code Health Experience Platform (combines data infrastructure with content management systems for patient acquisition), allowing health systems to deliver data-driven outreach while giving patients better tools to navigate their care once they’ve been engaged.
- Benefits of Digital Symptom Reporting: A nationwide study in Nature Medicine showed that cancer patients who participate in digital symptom reporting see improved outcomes and fewer ED visits than those receiving standard care. After examining 1,191 cancer patients across 52 community oncology practices (half used a web-based or automated telephone system for weekly symptom reporting), results showed that the digital cohort had 6.1% fewer ED visits, fewer mean visits at 12 months (1.02 vs. 1.30), and better Health-Related Quality of Life scores (15.6 versus 12.2).
- WellSky Patient Panel Launch: WellSky launched new patient panel capabilities within its WellSky CarePort Connect solution, allowing providers to identify patients who need direct intervention before, during, and after care transitions. The patient panel delivers a customizable 360 degree view of an organization’s patients by setting, highlighting cohorts tied to clinical or operational goals while helping manage and prioritize care transitions in real-time.
- County-Level Utilization Variation: A JAMA study broke U.S. healthcare spending down to the county level, revealing “considerable variation” across geographies and conditions. Researchers looked at data from 3,110 counties for 148 conditions and 4 payors – representing 77% of total spending in 2019. They found that 64.8% of cross-county spending variation was explained by service utilization, while the rest was explained by population age (4%), disease prevalence (7%), and price / intensity of services (24%). Type 2 diabetes drove the majority of spending ($144B), followed by MSK disorders ($107B), and heart disease ($81B).
- Prenuvo Bolsters Series B: Whole-body MRI screening startup Prenuvo quietly raised $120M in Series B fundraising to add new modalities to its offering, including an expansion into cardiovascular health. The fresh funds will go to adding AI-powered whole-body composition analysis, a brain health scan, and a blood bio-marker assessment that provide insights into metabolic and cardiovascular health among other metrics.
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