HLTH 2025: Health Tech Leaders Share Where AI Creates Real Value
At HLTH 2025 in Las Vegas, executives from across health tech were clear: AI has moved from buzz to build. The focus now is ROI, clinician time, and making data useful at the point of care.
Here's what they're shipping, where they see traction, and how you can apply it in your organization.
Carrot Fertility: Fertility Care That Goes Beyond IVF
Dr. Asima Ahmad, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder, underscored that fertility is broader than IVF. Carrot is leaning into comprehensive care: education, prevention, testing, and support that respects diverse family-building paths.
The aim is to change a status quo that often treats women's health as episodic. Expect more integrated benefits, earlier intervention, and measurable outcomes outside the procedure room.
Elation Health: Primary Care Needs a Different EHR
Kyna Fong, CEO and Co-founder, called out a core gap: standard EHRs don't serve the longitudinal nature of primary care. Add pressure from performance criteria, and clinicians are drowning in clicks and compliance.
Elation is deploying AI in practice operations, clinical documentation, and automation to reduce administrative load. That aligns with national efforts to cut documentation burden-see ONC's strategy on burden reduction for context here.
EY: Where AI ROI Is Easiest to Prove
Sezin Palmer, EY Americas Health AI Technology Consulting Leader, previewed findings from an upcoming ROI report. Revenue cycle management stands out because value is easy to quantify: fewer denials, faster payments, better collections.
She also addressed consolidation dynamics and predicted that generative AI will have outsized impact in clinical care workflows and on payer operations. The takeaway: choose use cases with measurable baselines and short feedback loops.
Lantern: Steering Patients to High-Value Specialty Care
Dickon Waterfield, President, detailed how Lantern directs patients to a vetted network of specialists. The model focuses on access, quality, and consistency-then proves it with ROI.
Expect to see tighter referral routing, stronger provider relationships, and clearer attribution of cost and outcomes. This is care guidance with accountability built in.
Navina: Closing the Provider-Payer Communication Gap
Ronen Lavi, CEO and Co-founder, emphasized value-based care execution. Navina is using AI to surface insights that matter to both clinicians and payers so care teams can act sooner and with better context.
Think cleaner problem lists, timely risk insights, and fewer back-and-forths. Better communication turns into better quality scores and fewer misses.
Particle Health: From Data to Insight to Action
Jason Prestinario, CEO, focused on data that teams can actually use. Particle's push is "data democratization": standardize it, make it portable, and tie it to workflow so clinicians don't have to hunt for what matters.
Over the next year, expect deeper AI that turns raw data into recommended actions. The goal is simple: less noise, more signal, faster decisions.
What Healthcare Leaders Can Do Next
- Pick your first three AI use cases with clear, near-term ROI. RCM, documentation support, and referral routing are strong candidates.
- Measure burden reduction, not just output. Track clinician time saved, denial rates, turnaround time, and closed care gaps.
- Invest in longitudinal data views for primary care. Care plans improve when history isn't hidden behind tabs.
- Tighten provider-payer data sharing. Shared context cuts friction and improves value-based performance.
- Build specialty care pathways with feedback loops. Route, measure, refine, repeat.
- Stand up lightweight governance for AI. Define data sources, validation steps, and escalation paths before scaling.
Bottom line: AI that reduces administrative work, clarifies next actions, and proves financial value is getting adopted. Start small, measure hard, and scale what works.
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