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Hi HAIFer,
Last Sunday, walking into the supermarket, I noticed how far self-checkout has moved on - self-serve kiosks, plus one “floating” cashier supporting multiple lanes.
It felt like a small glimpse of where I think healthcare is heading: AI Patient Companions = self-serve kiosks, and the floating cashier = doctor. I shared the full take in my last post here - Curious what you think!
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Read on for the foresight of the week and the full breakdown of what shaped healthcare AI 👇
Solutions and Launches
Sword Health (US/PT): Launched “Arbor”, a framework decomposing clinical decision-tree navigation into modular subtasks for LLMs. This structural shift cut latency by 57% and improved navigation accuracy by 29 percentage points in real-world triage conversations. [Link]
b.well Connected Health (US): Launched "bailey", a white-label AI assistant that organizations can embed directly into existing healthcare applications. [Link]
UiPath (US): Introduced agentic AI solutions including medical records summarization and prior authorization. One early implementation of its MRS product reported a 90% reduction in average summary review time, from 70 minutes to six. [Link]
SEQSTER (US): Launched the “1-Click Data Refinery,” an enterprise-grade harmonization engine that converts raw, patient-consented EHR data into clean, structured, AI-ready records and longitudinal patient-centric representations. [Link]
SpendRule (US): Launched an AI platform that checks hospital purchased-services invoices against the contract before payment. It’s aimed at the $323B purchased-services spend category to help stop overpayments. [Link]
Wonder Sciences (US): Piloted “WonderMate”, an AI digital therapist and clinical co-pilot for mental health built around longitudinal cognitive modeling. It differentiates itself with real-time safety monitoring and human-led escalation pathways when risk signals (e.g., acute distress) are detected. [Link]
Governance, Policy, and Ethics
FDA Premarket Exemption (US): A new petition proposes exempting certain radiology imaging AI products from FDA review in some cases, shifting emphasis toward technical standards and continuous post-market performance monitoring. [Link]
National Roadmaps (India): India launched SAHI (a national AI-in-healthcare governance roadmap) and BODH (a benchmarking platform to evaluate health AI for safety, bias, and performance before large-scale deployment). [Link]
Research and AI Advancements
Hierarchical Deep Learning: A hierarchical deep learning pipeline automated cervical sagittal alignment parameter measurements on standard lateral cervical X-rays, remaining robust when C7 is obscured. [Link]
Benchmarking LLMs in Reproductive Health: A study evaluating eight models on DREAM challenge tasks found that top LLMs can autonomously generate code to predict preterm birth. [Link]
Regulation of clinical Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Age of Agents-Unconfined Non-Deterministic Clinical Software: Researchers published this framework in npj Digital Medicine to propose a new regulatory category. [Link]
Partnerships & Adoption
Merck & Mayo Clinic (US): Partnered to leverage Mayo's massive de-identified, multimodal clinical data network. The collaboration focuses on validating AI models for drug discovery, starting with inflammatory bowel disease. [Link]
JCHO Osaka Hospital & Fujitsu (Japan): Collaborating with Microsoft to integrate generative AI for discharge summaries and nursing handovers. Strict internal governance frameworks guide the June 2026 operational rollout. [Link]
Gates Foundation, Wellcome & Novo Nordisk Foundation (Global): Launched the EVAH initiative backed by a $60 million joint investment. The partnership funds the local evaluation and scaling of ready-to-use AI clinical and diagnostic tools across low- and middle-income countries. [Link]
Bets on the Next Health System
Investments:
Pontiro (UK): Raised £357,500 to scale infrastructure that safely anonymizes NHS medical imaging data for AI research and clinical evaluation. [Link]
Klaris (UK): Raised £880,000 in pre-seed funding to build an AI platform automating regulatory compliance for medical device manufacturers. [Link]
Sanome (UK): Secured a £300,000 grant to advance "MEMORI", an AI platform predicting life-threatening hospital-acquired infections up to seven days before clinical symptoms appear. [Link]
Flinn.ai (Austria): Raised $20 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-driven regulatory compliance platform. [Link]
That’s a wrap for Edition #20 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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