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Hi HAIFers,
Last newsletter of 2025.
Earlier this year, I shared 10 signals on what was coming next for healthcare AI. Looking back, 9 out of 10 have already landed or are slowly emerging. You can see the full review here [Link].
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Read on for the foresight of the week and the full breakdown of what shaped healthcare AI 👇
Solutions and Launches
NHS (UK): Officially rolled out its AI Winter Demand Tool to 50 Trusts. By analysing weather and historical admission patterns, it predicts A&E bottlenecks up to three weeks in advance, allowing managers to allocate beds before the crisis hits. [Link]
PureHealth (UAE): Launched the pilot of Nada, an ambient AI assistant that securely listens to consultations to draft structured notes. [Link]
Work Medical Technology (China/Global): Received manufacturing approval for its AI-Automated Blood Cell Morphology Analyzer. The Class II device integrates deep learning with optical imaging to automate manual microscopy, significantly speeding up the identification of blood disorders. [Link]
CelcomDigi (Malaysia): Unveiled the 5G AI MediHub, an on-site smart clinic combining AI kiosks and tele-consults. This moves primary care directly into the corporate HQ, positioning automated healthcare as a core employee benefit.[Link]
Governance, Policy, and Ethics
Coalition for Health AI (US): Released new Best Practice Guides and evaluation frameworks for four key use cases: Health Advice Chatbots, Prior Authorization, EHR Retrieval, and Clinical Decision Support. [Link]
FDA (US): Reviewing a petition from Harrison.ai to exempt Radiology AI from 510(k) review, but only for manufacturers with prior clearance who commit to strict post-market monitoring.[Link]
Research and AI Advancements
A multi-modal vision knowledge graph of cardiovascular disease (Imperial College London): Researchers developed "CardioKG," an AI tool connecting over 200,000 heart-imaging traits with 18 biological databases to predict new gene associations and drug repurposing opportunities.[Link]
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: shows a massive German study (460k+ mammograms) showing AI-assisted radiologists detected 17.6% more cancers without a spike in false positives. [Link]
Continual Learning for AI on Endotracheal Tube Placement (NEJM AI): A global study of 23 hospitals found that "continual learning" significantly improved AI accuracy for checking breathing tube placement, reducing measurement error to 10.58 mm compared to the original model's performance. [Link]
Partnerships & Adoption
Fujitsu & Nvidia (Japan/Global): Announced a partnership to build a "healthcare orchestrator" using Nvidia’s NIM microservices. The platform acts as a conductor, coordinating multiple autonomous AI agents to handle admin tasks without replacing existing hospital IT. [Link]
GIMS + IIT Kanpur (India): Launching India’s first public "AI Clinic" on Jan 2, 2026. The facility serves as a live sandbox for startups to test and validate diagnostic tools directly within a government hospital. [Link]
LG NOVA (Global): Unveiled its "AI-first" venture portfolio for CES 2026. The lineup features new healthcare platforms for providers, including ReliefAI (mental health) and Primefocus (chronic remote monitoring), alongside innovations in clean energy and business tools. [Link]
Bets on the Next Health System
Investments:
Tebra (US): is a digital health company providing an all-in-one EHR and practice automation platform for independent healthcare providers, which raised $250 million in equity and debt financing to accelerate its AI capabilities. [Link]
M&A:
Johnson & Johnson (US): Completed a $3.05 billion acquisition of Halda Therapeutics to expand its oncology portfolio.[Link]
Coforge (India/US): is a global IT services and digital solutions company (formerly NIIT Technologies) that acquired Encora for $2.35 billion to expand its AI, cloud, and data engineering capabilities. [Link]
That’s a wrap for Edition #12 of Health AI Foresight.
My goal with this newsletter is simple - to connect the present, the emerging, and the future of healthcare AI.
See you next week.
- Dr. Aboufandi
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