How Does the New Regulatory Regime Impact Healthcare Innovation?
Last year, several key developments sparked optimism about the government and industry coming together to create certainty and provide catalysts for the adoption of much needed technologies to make healthcare more accessible and of higher quality. On the government side, President Biden signed an executive order on November of 2023 on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy […]
Investment Landscape in Health AI
Back in 2020, just as it looked like the entire world came to a stop from the pandemic, many of us thought that the capital markets would suffer greatly. After all, investors look for stability, strong economic activity, and consumer confidence to allocate capital. If there’s market uncertainty, business or consumer lack of confidence, or […]
Impact of AI on the Healthcare Workforce
One of the most salient discussions around AI is if it will lead to mass job losses and aggregate even more wealth in the hands of the few. I used the last 3 posts discussing AI agents and how the capabilities of these agents to process information, reason, and complete tasks is advancing. This will […]
AI Agents III
In the last post in this series about AI agents and their upcoming role in healthcare, I want to start with the following table that shows how the capabilities of generative AI models has evolved over the last 2 years. As you can see, most of the foundation models by Open AI, Google, and others […]
AI Agents II
In the last post, we discussed the improving capabilities of generative AI and its increasing ability to reason through complex problems. This is the evolution that will be critical if AI systems will become fully autonomous in the near future and free up human resources to focus on different activities. Like any other technology, AI […]
AI Agents I
The last 2 years has seen a dizzying pace of innovation when it comes to foundational AI technologies. While no transformative innovation happens overnight and most innovations that move the needle are usually the result of years and decades of research, we’ve seen generative AI technologies evolve rapidly since the launch of ChatGPT. This has […]
5 predictions for advancements of AI in healthcare in 2025
In 2024, I joined Fast Company’s Executive Board and began writing articles about healthcare and technology. I’ve written about Longevity and last week, I wrote my predictions for health AI in 2025. I’m including the text of that article below as my last blog post for 2024. For 2025, I will be writing a series […]
Annual Recap – 2024 in Healthcare Technology
While this has been a very turbulent year in all manners of speaking, for health technology it has been a rather eventful year and mostly positive. While the world has been dealing with major geopolitical issues posing risk to economic stability and long-term growth, high inflation rates, higher for longer fed fund rate, US elections, […]
The Shifting Landscape of AI Regulations in Healthcare III
As we discussed in the last post in this series, there are new developments in the regulation of health AI products. While the FDA is one key body in clearing these solutions for their efficacy and safety, given that they’re not requiring real-world studies of the safety and the outcome improvements with these solutions, their […]
The Shifting Landscape of AI Regulations in Healthcare II
In the last post, I discussed how a lower bar for clearing AI products by the FDA has not led to the faster adoption of these products by the medical community and in fact, it may be a major contributor to the slower adoption. When institutions have confidence that the products they’re buying have been […]