2025 Health AI Recap: Steady Progress, Few Breakthrough Use Cases, and Policy Challenges
It’s hard to believe that we’re now doing 2025 recaps already! I was just writing the 2024 recap for this blog. And, in my last article of 2024 for Fast Company, I had made some predictions for what would happen with health AI in 2025. Well, it’s good to go back and revisit those articles […]
Is AI creating new growth dynamics for companies?
In my latest article for the Fast Company Executive Board, I discuss an exciting new dynamics observed in certain AI-native companies. These are companies that are usually formed in the last couple of years and are using AI to set up every aspect of the company. This includes product development, administrative functions, and interestingly, commercial […]
The Prescription to Accelerate Technology Adoption by Providers
While there are great steps being taken in every part of the health innovation economy, one question that always comes to mind is how much of these innovations are actually making it to the frontlines of care? If you read the literature in this field, it’s full of stories of success about the use of […]
Are We Headed in the Right Direction with Personalized Health?
If you’ve noticed that the talk of health, wellness, longevity seems to be everywhere these days, you’re not the only one. Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of articles, podcasts, products, apps, devices, and more that promise to make us healthier. This is not be accident. In a recent report by BrandWatch, […]
Are the Barriers to AI Adoption in Healthcare Getting Addressed?
The third chapter in my recent book, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, is titled “Barriers to AI Adoption in Healthcare”. If anyone has ever been involved in trying to introduce new technology into the practice of medicine, they know how difficult it really is. The reasons are numerous but the overarching […]
AI and the future of work: Predictions for the economy and workforce
In my latest article for the Fast Company Executive Board, I opine about whether AI will be a job creator or job destroyer and whether it will raise or lower wages. I examine previous periods of rapid technological advancement and their impacts on jobs and wages. Bottom line: in every previous iteration of automation due […]
Is the 2025 Venture Capital Investment Landscape Living Up to the Expectations?
Back in March, I wrote about the state of private market investments in health AI. While my focus was digital health and more specifically, health AI, the macro trends in private market investing, and especially VC investing was a major focus of that piece. The inventory of companies that raised large sums of money in […]
Will the Incumbents Reap Most of the Economic Benefits from AI? Part Il
In part I of this series, we discussed the massive projected economic gains from AI over the coming years and decades. Given the very bullish projections about AI’s potential future impact and economic upside, many companies, old and new, are plotting to maximize their gains from this powerful technology. The question that I’m tackling here: […]
Will the Incumbents Reap Most of the Economic Benefits from AI? Part I
This past 2 years, venture funding has been increasingly moving toward companies that are building AI solutions for different industries. As a matter of fact, by some accounts, AI companies now account for more than half of the venture capital funding and majority of the mega deals (funding rounds of over $100M) are going to […]
Is Our Innovation Economy at Risk?
In my latest article for the Fast Company Executive Board, I write about the real risks to the long-term health of the US innovation economy. This is the economy that nurtures ideas that become world-changing technologies and products. How does this happen? Years, and often decades, of trial and error research in the public sector […]