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August 25, 2025 l Issue #317

🔍 Top Insights

1. Epic unveils AI solutions for clinicians, patients and RCM, gives sneak peek at Cosmos AI for risk prediction
2. AMA releases AI governance toolkit for health systems
3. How athenahealth is approaching AI for physician practices as tech innovation accelerates

The Big Unlock Podcast

Using AI to Ease Clinician Burden and Deliver Real Value in Healthcare

Sameer Sethi, SVP and Chief AI & Insights Officer at Hackensack Meridian Health

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AI and the Future of Longevity-Driven Personalized Care

Dr. Regina Druz, Founder and CEO at Holistic Heart Centers

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Funding and M&A Moves

• Citizen Health secures $30M for personalized patient advocate
• Heartflow goes public, raises $316.7 million in IPO

🤖 AI in Action

Use Case of the Week: Ambient AI in Pediatrics 

Health System:  Akron Children’s Hospital

Akron Children’s Hospital deployed Abridge’s ambient AI to automatically capture and summarize clinical conversations. The solution reduced documentation burden, delivered 95% physician retention, improved patient focus by 90%, lowered cognitive load by 54%, and decreased burnout by 45%—while enabling efficiency gains across revenue cycle and care workflows. 

📊 Industry Spotlight

1. 7 ways AI is transforming healthcare
2. Agentic AI meets Hospital-at-Home: Breakthroughs and barriers
3.  Healthcare in the AI era: Healthcare is turning to AI to transform patient care 

🧠 Thought Leadership

• Driving Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Insights from Inderpal Kohli
• Redefining Senior Living – Michael Hughes on Innovation, Social Determinants of Health, and the Future of Aging Care
• Improving Cash Flow Through Smarter Revenue Cycle Management Using AI and Voice Agents (Case Study)
•  Unlocking Healthcare’s Future: Ashis Barad’s Vision for Digital Transformation 

💬 From the Frontlines

“It’s very clear that we are going to see in the next five years a rapid emergence of agentic AI in all verticals of healthcare… Eventually, we will abandon our focus on large populations because AI will enable us to address population health differently, making the ‘N of one’ personalized medicine a standard type of medicine.”

—  Dr. Regina Druz, Founder and CEO at Holistic Heart Centers (The Big Unlock Podcast Episode #177) 

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