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Here’s your recap of last week’s health IT news 🗞️ 👇 🤖 AI Products • Emergency Services, Inc. + Augmedix Go ED: The emergency medicine group adopted the new ED-specific AI ambient scribe solution.    • Color + OpenAI: The cancer care tech company partnered with the GenAI giant to build a AI clinical decision support copilot.    • AKASA Medical Coding: The AI RCM vendor known for its AI prior auth tool AKASA Authorization Advisor released a new GenAI medical coding solution.    • Humata Health: The AI prior auth for providers vendor closed a $25M funding round led by healthcare org-backed funds The Blue Venture Fund and LRVHealth.    • Wellsheet + Concord Hospital Health System: The AI-enabled Smart EHR UI solution announced a client-reported 16.3% reduction in length of stay and 40% decrease in time spent in the EHR via its partnership with Concord Health, as well as the release of its new LLM-generated handoff summary feature. 🍎 VBC • BSIM Healthcare Services + Innovaccer: The healthcare provider—embarking on its first VBC contract—adopted the pop health data platform for analytics. 🩼 Durable Medical Equipment • Parachute Health: The DME e-prescribing and ordering solution released an update that integrates prior authorization. ⚕️Clinical Staffing • Matchwell + Indiana Hospital Association: The clinical staffing service partnered with the hospital member org to create the first state-wide resource pool for temp staffing. 🧑‍💻 Virtual and At-Home Care • Deaconess Health System + KeyCare: The Indiana-based health system adopted the Epic-based virtual care provider for around-the-clock virtual urgent care.    • UC Davis Health + Current Health: The health system launched a new RPM program for high blood pressure in partnership with Best Buy Health’s care-at-home platform. 🧠 Food for Thought: We came across a couple of good resources this past week on the current state of healthcare data information exchange: • This article in Health Affairs from Deven McGraw and Tina Grande provides a comprehensive overview of some of the patient health data abuses we've seen come to light in recent months, as well as a number of policy recommendations to improve the health information exchange landscape for all participants. https://lnkd.in/e_GEQ-JJ  (h/t Alya Sulaiman)    • This episode of Health Gorilla's InteropTalk gives a helpful update on the current state of affairs, with a particular focus on the state of trust across the health data exchange community and how the definition of "Treatment" may evolve. https://lnkd.in/e96AJG-5 (h/t Brendan Keeler) --- Reminder: you can sign up for the Elion Briefing to get the latest healthcare tech news delivered to your inbox each week 📬 👉 https://lnkd.in/e2UJ3ckP

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The Wild Ride of Rapid Growth: Transitioning from Founder to CEO! Starting a digital health company is exhilarating, with late nights, bold ideas, and relentless pursuit of success. But when dreams materialize faster than expected, the excitement is matched by the reality of rapid scaling. Here’s my experience navigating this whirlwind and the shifts required to keep up. Embrace the Shift: From Doer to Leader In the beginning, an entrepreneur wears many hats—visionary, marketer, accountant, even coffee runner. But as your business takes off, demands grow exponentially. The first major shift is realizing you can't do it all. Letting Go of Control: To scale effectively, you must delegate tasks to experts. This means hiring the right personnel to manage various aspects of the business. Thinking Big: The CEO's New Role As your team takes over operations, your role evolves. Your focus shifts to steering growth and strategic direction. Visionary Thinking: Anticipate market trends and plan the next big moves. Building Relationships: Nurture relationships with clients, investors, and peers to drive growth. Strategic Decision-Making: Make high-impact decisions shaping the company’s future. The Wild Ride Scaling rapidly is thrilling but daunting. The pace can be overwhelming, and the stakes are high. However, the rewards are immense. Seeing your idea grow, your team thrive, and your hard work pay off is unparalleled. Building Your Dream Team To sustain rapid growth, you need a supportive team. Key roles include: Accounting Marketing Sales Administration Legal Human Resources Customer Support Technology/IT Operations Management Product Development Adaptability and Resilience: Stay adaptable and resilient. Learn from setbacks, celebrate wins, and keep pushing forward. Balance and Well-being: Maintain balance. Prioritize your well-being, stay connected with your support system, and find time to recharge. A healthy leader is essential for a thriving business. In conclusion, transitioning from a solo entrepreneur to the CEO of a rapidly growing company is a wild ride. It requires a significant mindset shift, the right team, and relentless focus on the bigger picture. Embrace the chaos, enjoy the ride, and keep pushing boundaries. The rewards are well worth the effort. LIVEMED Telehealth™ #physicianleader #CEO #Founder #healthcareinnovation #startups #entrepreneurship #digitalhealth

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Most startups, even those that secure funding, face a high risk of failure. Startup #success is often an outlier, akin to a #miracle. This level of unpredictability is not suited for teams seeking stability or those uncomfortable with ambiguity—having such individuals can accelerate a startup's demise. What #startups truly need are dynamic problem solvers who thrive in uncertainty. #startup #startups #linkedin #weekendthought #thoughts

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Google ranks organically our post of DeepCura being the best medical chat gpt. -We are still a team of 3 and continue to grow in sales every month. -No VC funding or pressures, sleep like baby at night. -I do the aws cloud, marketing, SEO, assist with product bugs in the backend, frontend, interview 1-2 doctor customers every week to learn about their major needs and get the average pain point. -I have absolute visibility of the entire business, each minuscule part of it, which has been proven a deadly advantage for DeepCura in the market. -All business metrics including sales get better every month. At this point, the only reason to raise from a VC is not for cash, that is not needed, it would be distribution, if DeepCura TODAY raised $0 cash but partnered with a top VC firm ONLY for distribution after seeing how extremely healthy our business metrics are, DeepCura would be a billion dollar company. After 2 years of leaving San Francisco and the US to Poland, I'm finally coming back permanently to SF. This will be my main challenge in 2025, to seek corporate distribution. A strategy instead of partnering with VCs would simply partner directly with universities around the world, we will see.

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"Digital health orgs interested in going public must convince potential investors that their companies will succeed where others have faltered. During the early 2020s VC funding boom, >25 digital health companies that achieved 'unicorn' valuations of >$1B had IPOs. Many of those companies have struggled to achieve profitability and have laid off employees, sold lagging businesses, been taken private or filed for bankruptcy. IPOs from digital health companies were at a near 2-yr standstill until Waystar and Tempus AI went public in June. The lack of IPO activity and public skepticism over the efficacy of some digital health tools has led many orgs to take a conservative approach to their funding alternatives. Still, there is a growing consensus among investors and industry experts that companies' need for capital and a slightly improved macroeconomic outlook could produce more IPOs in 2025. Formulating a compelling communications strategy — and doing it early in the process — to put in front of potential investors is said to be key. 'There are no great [comparisons] in digital health right now,' said Jon Swope, managing director in the healthcare investment banking group at Barclays. 'We’re back to a place where we need to communicate to investors why a pre-IPO company stands on its merits.' It's equally important to abide by the disclosure rules set for publicly held companies by the SEC. The public disclosure of finances, risk factors, operational details and info on execs and competitors can be a lift for orgs used to operating behind closed doors. Getting it wrong can expose the company and its execs to shareholder lawsuits or enforcement actions. Before Livongo went public in 2019, it developed 3 narratives, said John Hallock, who was Livongo's VP of corporate comms. The 1st revolved around how its core product saved employers money, the 2nd highlighted patient experiences and the 3rd focused on its tech and AI products. Hallock said too many companies outsource the majority of that work to PR or investor relations firms before building in-house teams. Those employees can advocate internally to board members and execs. In the years since the IPO of Livongo, which later was sold to Teladoc Health, the communications strategy for pre-IPO companies has changed, say [experts] Investors are valuing predicted revenue growth less bc they are able generate reasonable returns on companies with a clearer path to profitability. As a result, higher interest rates have led many investors to back companies with stable operations and reliable growth that likely would have been passed over in years past. [Experts] say digital health orgs are under more scrutiny by potential investors, media outlets and the public. The changing environment requires startups to balance the discipline investors value with the risks needed to position a company for an IPO. Taking a conservative approach to messaging can reduce name recognition and ultimately inhibit growth"

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*Q2 SERIES B-IPO HEALTHTECH FUNDING ANALYSIS* #RaihanReacts to the last ~3 months of later stage deals. *This list is not comprehensive. Comment below if I missed a deal. IPO WATCH • Tempus AI: News today that [TEM] plans to raise $400 million by offering 11.1M shares at $35-37 leading to a ~$6B valuation. Big win for this AI-powered genomic sequencing and drug discovery startup. • Waystar: Plans to raise ~$1B by offering 45M shares at $20-23. Positive signal for RCM/payments startups? UNDISCLOSED AND LATER STAGE • Sword Health: Raised $30M and let employees sell $100M worth of equity to new and existing investors. CEO has teased 2025-26 IPO timeline. • Transcarent: $126M Series D - Employer direct contracting w-Surgery/Pharmacy/Medical/Mental Health care • Eko Health: $41M Series D - Digital stethoscope for heart / lung diagnostics • Lumeris: $100M - VBC Infra platform • Wayspring: $75M - VBC SUD medical home model • Cohere Health: $50M - AI prior auth automation • Equip: $35M - Eating disorder telehealth SERIES C • Natural Cycles°: $55M - DTC Fertility tracker • Boulder Care: $35M - Virtual substance use disorder treatment clinic • Chapter: $50M - Medicare navigator • Two Chairs: $72M - Virtual behavioral health • Grow Therapy: $88M - Teletherapy clinic tech stack / "practice in a box" • Pelago: $58M - Virtual substance use disorder treatment clinic • Brightside Health: $33M - Virtual behavioral health • Abridge: $150M - AI ambient listening clinical documentation • Foodsmart: $40M - Telenutrition / food prescription for health systems • Unlearn.AI: $50M - AI-powered digital twin tech for clinical trials SERIES B • Gameto: $33M - IVF treatment commercialization • Hume AI: $50M - Empathic (eLLM) conversational AI platform • SamaCare: $17M - Specialty meds prior auth automation • Atropos Health: $33M - RWE genAI automation • AITRICS: $20M - Patient health deterioration predictive analytics • Expressable: $26M - Virtual speech therapy provider • SmarterDx: $50M - Clinical AI for revenue integrity and care quality • Rad AI: $50M - GenAI radiology workflow • Livara Health: $15M - VBC MSK platform • Midi Health: $60M - Virtual peri-menopause clinics • AccessHope: $33M - Cancer expertise and oncology network platform • InStride Health: $30M - Pediatric OCD + anxiety virtual care • HiLabs: $39M - Provider directory management • CodaMetrix: $40M - AI-powered medical coding + RCM platform • BrainCheck: $15M - Cognitive health assessment • Tava Health: $20M - Virtual mental health WHAT'S HOT & WHY (contd in comments) • Behavioral Health & SUD • AI - GenAI, ML, and other AI in SaaS, Tech-Enabled Services, Devices/Diagnostics • Clinical & Billing Workflow Automation - Documentation, Prior Auth, Coding, Billing, RCM • Women's Health *DM me to learn about Guaranteed's VBC end-of-life care navigation platform that decreases MLR/TCOC for health plans and risk-bearing entities (oncology, nephro, dementia, cardiology) and enables dying w/dignity.

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This was a question investors asked us early on in our Health Tech journey. Because the hospital sales cycle was notorious for being very long. And we started the company in the era of Uber, Airbnb, Instagram, etc. where direct-to-consumer apps were the big trend. So why not circumvent that strenuous sales process by just taking digital care journeys direct to patients? Surely patients who were undergoing a complex care journey (e.g. surgery, cancer, etc.) would be thrilled to get SeamlessMD on their own? And believe me, as we struggled through those long hospital sales cycles, we would sometimes come back to this question. But every time we thought about it, we came back to the same conclusions: → Every healthcare team provides slightly different instructions to patients (e.g. how to prepare for surgery). Delivering education to patients that potentially conflicts with what a patient’s own care team is telling them is confusing and could put patient safety at risk. → If patients are using this on their own, then there’s no connection to the healthcare team. Which means no opportunity for clinicians to leverage the data collected on the platform to take better care of patients (e.g. via remote monitoring). → How would patients even learn about SeamlessMD and why would they trust us? Realistically, how many patients are looking for a digital health tool every time they have a journey? Especially older patients? Not many. → How would we know if we are actually improving patient outcomes (and also not making things worse)? Without partnering with health systems who can measure the impact of our product we simply have no idea. So ultimately we doubled down on partnering with health systems because it solved those four issues: → Ensured patient safety by aligning what patients received on SeamlessMD with what their care teams were telling them. → Drove even better patient outcomes because care teams could remotely monitor patients and catch problems earlier - with dashboards and tools directly embedded within their EHR. → Provided a trusted distribution channel to patients. Who better to promote a digital health tool than your own care team? → Produced studies and evaluations which proved we were actually making an impact on cost and quality (40+ studies/evaluations and counting!) As I reflect on those decisions, I truly believe the strong clinical DNA in our company is what led us down this path. Without it, we may not have had the thoughtfulness to consider the patient safety risks or to care about measuring real impact on outcomes. If we had just focused on “exponential growth of users” like the traditional venture-backed, direct-to-consumer models… I really don’t think we’d still be here today. That might work for some very specific aspects of healthcare (e.g. low acuity direct-to-patient telemedicine). But navigating patients through complex care journeys? I believe we made the right call. What do you think?

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One of the truths in business we've forgotten over the years is that businesses don't exist to make money. Businesses exist to meet a need. Making money and generating profit are the means by which businesses earn the right to continue meeting customer needs over time. Show me a business that can't tell a clear, succinct story of how they meet customer needs (in ways customers would say themselves), and I'll show you the Achilles heel in their product or business model that will be their undoing. In VCs, firms like Forum Ventures and Redesign Health will win out over time. Their lifeblood is positioning founders to win. They know they don't succeed unless their founders succeed, not the other way around. I'm not sure how we reverse this trend, but I'm glad to see firms like these two leading the way. Who else is doing this right?

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Here’s your recap of last week’s health IT news 🗞️ 👇 🤖 AI Clinician Assistant • athenahealth released Ambient Notes, a fully integrated AI ambient scribe for ambulatory practices, which also supports switching between AI models based on context and individual preference. • Abridge is partnering with OpenNotes to evaluate AI-generated visit summaries. 📞 AI Contact Center • healow health released Genie, a phone-, text-, and chat-based AI conversational chat solution for appointment scheduling, prescription refills, and more. 🏥 AI Facility Management • Kontakt.io released a security app that allows staff to page security personnel with location information, and a Kio Nurse app for locating items with a live map view. 📈 Data & Analytics • Alameda County selected Innovaccer to unify and analyze the data in its Social Health Information Exchange.    • Cornerstone AI announced an additional $5M investment, bringing its total funding to $10M. • emtelligent released their Clinical Workflows solution, which offers both clinical and business users across healthcare organizations an interface experience to interact with their existing LLM and NLP engine. 💼 Provider & Practice Administration • Axuall announced two new health system partnerships—VA-based Inova Health System and IN-based Community Health Network—and a partnership with PayrHealth, which helps providers negotiate contracts and reimbursements. 🔁 RCM • SmarterDx released an AI denials solution that creates AI-generated appeals letters.    • Inovalon hosted its Empower 2024 summit and announced a host of new solutions and updates, including an eligibility verification solution for provider organizations and several other tools for health plans and research organizations. • XiFin, Inc. added two new payers to its Payor Rate Transparency Monitor—Humana and Blue Shield of California—and launched Payor Intelligence Hub to help providers better understand payer policies and behaviors. ⚙️ Clinical Operations • Oracle hosted its Oracle Health Summit and announced a number of new features and product updates, including an AI-native EHR, patient admin tools, and plans to become a QHIN. • eClinicalWorks hosted its National Conference and released AI RCM tools, VBC scorecards, and patient engagement updates. • Altera Digital Health released a new EHR, Paragon Denali—natively deployed in Microsoft Azure —intended for rural, critical access, and community hospitals. 🤝 Staffing, Consults, and Referrals: • Tennr raised a $37M Series B. • Cottage Hospital partnered with ShiftMed to add more flexible per diem options for acute care staff. 🧑‍💻 Virtual & At-Home Care • Brook Health is partnering with Linus Health to provide treatment plans and ongoing remote clinical care for cognitive care patients. --- Want the latest healthcare tech news delivered to your inbox each week? Sign up here 📬 👉 https://lnkd.in/e2UJ3ckP

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As someone who followed the HLTH USA 2024 conference from afar, I’m encouraged by the future of healthcare - even with some leaders expressing “AI fatigue” at this year’s event. One insight that truly resonated with me came from Daniel Yang, MD, the VP of AI and Emerging Technologies at Kaiser Permanente, who emphasized the need for healthcare systems “to define the problems that matter to our organization and start with that (...instead of being reactive to the AI solutions being pitched to us).” This way of thinking is powerful because it positions healthcare systems as collaborators, actively working to bring digital and traditional healthcare together to address what genuinely matters. Coming from one of the most influential healthcare systems in the U.S., this perspective has the potential to inspire industry-wide change and move us closer to the future of healthcare envisioned at this year’s HLTH conference.

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It was an honor to be invited to present Simbie AI at Stanford’s STEMI X Innovation conference—we're grateful for invaluable mentorship from Andrew Chu, MD, MPH, MBA, Sherman L., Nisha Mehta, MD, Surbhi Sarna, and all our champions at Y Combinator. I wanted to take the opportunity to share what we’ve been building at Simbie AI: clinically trained and mulitlingual voice agents to ease the load on patients and physicians in practices. But first, some lessons from my medical training: Over the course of working with thousands of patients, there are some patterns I observed that few technical solutions were appropriately solving: -- While many tools focus on optimizing the provider’s performance, there is another side to the equation in a clinical encounter: the patient. Very few were providing tools to help prepare patients for healthcare interactions. -- Patients cannot be our ally in their own care if they are not included with full relevant information. It is very common that patients don’t know the names of their most common medications, what they do or why they are taking them, or what their disease is—to no fault of their own, there is no entity with time dedicated to their understanding this deeply. -- No one experiences quality care without being able to speak and be understood comfortably in their own language. -- Something fascinating about doctor-patient communication is that these are two different languages, goals of discussion, and perspectives that are much harder to bridge than people realize. There are entire courses on doctor-patient communication for good reason. It is actually my belief that the art of medicine, true clinical reasoning, happens in this live interaction, in the tango of the physician and patient working together to communicate what it is that they need from the other, and drawing out the critical information. For example, infectious systemic symptoms during abnormal uterine bleeding may seem unrelated to the patient but are critical medically. At Simbie AI, we’re building multilingual healthcare voice agents that focus on the provider and the patient, optimizing everything around them so that their focus can be on their live interaction. I strongly believe this is and should be the future of how we run practice in medicine: preserving and preparing physician and patient energy, time, and mental capacity to focus on optimizing their interaction, since this is the major barrier to clinical problem solving, and allowing technology to offload the rest. I envision the end of draining, repetitive experiences that reduce both patient and physician capacity to give to each other. Here’s to a brighter future of clinical practice - this is only the beginning. Simbie AI team: Rachel O'Driscoll Natalia Perina Giovanni Agugini Bassi

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I’m thrilled to share that FeelBetter is starting a new prospective research study with Brigham and Women's Hospital, building on the success of our retrospective research study. "Many polypharmacy problems aren’t detected until patients end up in the ER and, in seniors with several chronic diseases and conditions, the simultaneous use of multiple medications ultimately contributes to 10-30% of hospitalizations,” said Lisa Rotenstein, MD MBA MSc, the principal investigator of the study. “Our previous study showed that its platform can be used to identify which patients are at the highest risk of polypharmacy-related adverse events. Based on retrospective data, we’re excited to prospectively examine how the platform can potentially be used to improve patient outcomes, healthcare utilization, and cost efficiencies.” #Polypharmacy #medicationmanagement #AI #ACO #VBC #PrecisionHealth #PopulationHealth

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How can we make the Amazon parking lot a better experience? As Amazon continues to grow, so does the need for efficient and convenient parking solutions for our employees. We’re exploring ways to elevate the parking lot experience, from dedicated Lyft and Uber pickup/drop-off zones to smart parking systems that help employees find spots faster. Imagine a workplace where you could enjoy: • Valet parking for those busy mornings, • Shuttle services and e-bike stations to get to the entrance faster, • Carpool incentives and covered parking with EV charging stations, • And even a concierge service that handles vehicle maintenance while you’re working! At Amazon, we’re always thinking of ways to improve our employees’ experience—from the moment they park to the time they leave. What would your ideal parking lot experience look like? #WorkplaceInnovation #SmartParking #EmployeeExperience #AmazonLife #TransportationSolutions #ValetParking #EVCharging #Lyft #Uber

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Opportunities in the US-India corridor 🚀 I received some reachouts lately from founders and leaders around the US-India continuum of opportunities particularly for Health, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS (and insurance) having spent the last 15+ years around it across geographies and stakeholders, beginning with Neural Networks and AI applications in Health and Engineering back in the day at Stanford University with amazing mentors and I am grateful for the various opportunities! I also commented briefly on the massive US-India opportunity to Chamath Palihapitiya's post last week as well as Brendan Rogers' post today highlighting the new developments and possibilities :) Many of you who know me, perhaps also know my continued interests in operating at intersections be it regions such as the US, India, Middle-East and fields of Health, AI, SaaS, and insurance. I've often seen magic happen at intersections 🙂 Sharing a short video to highlight my quick initial view of leveraging the strengths, glad to get on a call specific to your business context in detail for scaleup and partner in unlocking it 🚀 #founders #startups #leaders #Health, #AI, #SaaS, #insurance #usa #india #opportunity #revenue #growth #gotomarket #productmarketing #consumer #sales #businessmodel #partnership #nitindua #usindia #gtm

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MYTH:  Great founders drop out of college. REALITY: PhD's & other degrees are a HUGE plus for a founder. - Mark Zuckerberg (Founder Facebook) dropped out of Harvard - Travis Kalanick (founder Uber) dropped out of UCLA - Jan Koum (Founder WhatsApp) dropped out of San Jose State University - Michael Dell (Founder Dell Tech.) dropped out of the University of Texas - Larry Ellison (Founder Oracle) left UIUC - Bill Gates (Founder Microsoft) dropped out of Harvard - Evan Williams (Founder Twitter) left the University of Nebraska - Steve Jobs (Founder Apple) dropped out of Reed College on the other end - Patrick Brown (Impossible Foods) - Larry Page (Alphabet), leveraged their PhDs and higher education to build revolutionary businesses. Not every time you need to be a dropout to do a successful business, few times even you're degree can also be used to create a million-dollar business What do you think? Can education amplify entrepreneurial success? Share your thoughts below! 👇 #Entrepreneurship #StartUpSuccess #EducationMatters #PhDJourney #BusinessInspiration #DegreePower #DropoutMyth #TechFounders #BillionDollarStartups #SuccessMindset

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🔍 Groundbreaking research reveals how healthcare's biggest players are actually implementing AI - insights from 63 C-suite leaders at top payers and providers. Define Ventures' comprehensive study, interviewing leaders from 10 of the top 20 providers and 5 of the top 10 payers, uncovers a pragmatic yet ambitious approach to AI adoption. Key findings: - 53% of leaders consider AI an immediate priority, with 73% increasing their financial commitments. - 76% are establishing programs involving AI pilots - For AI adoption, healthcare orgs are progressing with 3 distinct phases: Laying Groundwork, Test & Iterate, and All In. 2. ROI Focus: 54% believe AI's biggest near-term impact will be on patient and clinician experience. Leaders are prioritizing "soft ROI" early wins over hard financial metrics to build organizational confidence. 3. Use Case Priorities: - 83% of providers prioritize clinical documentation/ambient scribing - 68% of payers focus on member experience enhancement - Most organizations taking a "portfolio approach" mixing quick wins with strategic priorities 4. Build vs Buy Reality: 72% lean on external partners for applications, while 69% rely on external vendors for LLMs. However, 40% are investing in internal data infrastructure capabilities. The report's roadmap: Balance pragmatic implementation with strategic vision, focus on operational efficiency first, and build strong governance frameworks (73% have already established AI governance committees). 🔗 Read the survey: https://lnkd.in/g-kKRMhN #DigitalHealth #HealthTech #AIStrategy image: Define Ventures (above link)

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