Dave Newman on Operationalizing AI in the Modern Health System — Sanford Health | VIVE 2026
Sanford Health, the nation’s largest rural health system, announced it has moved AI from isolated pilots to full‑scale operational use. Chief Medical Officer Dave Newman highlighted an agentic AI nurse that automates patient outreach and scheduling, and predictive models that flag early kidney disease and colon cancer. The rollout has already saved patients about $40 million in travel costs and, according to McKinsey, can trim administrative overhead by roughly 15%. The shift signals a new era where AI is embedded in everyday clinical governance rather than treated as a research experiment.
Kevin Wang on How Ambient AI Is Solving Healthcare’s Hidden Burnout Crisis — Suki | VIVE 2026
Kevin Wang, chief medical officer of Suki, explained how the company’s ambient clinical intelligence is evolving from a simple dictation tool into a platform that embeds AI across electronic health records, telehealth and care‑management systems. By automating documentation, clinical reasoning...
Anil Jain, MD, FACP on The Prerequisite Infrastructure for Autonomous Healthcare — Innovaccer | VIVE 2026
Dr. Anil Jain, Chief Innovation Officer at Innovaccer, outlined the foundational infrastructure needed for autonomous healthcare during a VIVE 2026 interview. He highlighted the Gravity platform as an AI‑orchestration engine that links analytics to automated operational workflows, targeting high‑cost bottlenecks...
Bob Farrell on Applying E-Commerce Engagement to Healthcare — mPulse | VIVE 2026
Bob Farrell, executive at mPulse, explained how the company adapts e‑commerce engagement tactics to health‑care. By deploying conversational AI and omnichannel channels—SMS, email, rich‑media—mPulse delivers personalized outreach that nudges patients toward preventive screenings and medication adherence. Bain’s 2026 study cites...
Ania Wysocka on Democratizing Immediate Panic Attack Relief — Rootd | VIVE 2026
Rootd, a mobile app founded by Ania Wysocka, delivers instant, evidence‑based relief for panic attacks through a single‑tap CBT interface. The solution emerged as anxiety disorders surged 25% worldwide after the pandemic, overwhelming traditional therapy capacity. Rootd’s consumer‑friendly design—featuring a comforting...
Kempton Presley on Building the AI Data Foundation for Medication Adherence — AdhereHealth | VIVE 2026
Kempton Presley, CEO of AdhereHealth, emphasized that clean, unified health data is the essential foundation for any AI‑driven medication adherence solution. He warned that dirty, siloed claims and clinical feeds can cause AI hallucinations, mis‑triaging, and patient harm. AdhereHealth’s platform...
Eli Ben-Joseph on The AI Co-Pilot that Reads the Entire Medical Record — Regard | VIVE 2026
Regard’s AI co‑pilot, led by co‑founder Eli Ben‑Joseph, claims to ingest and synthesize 100% of a patient’s electronic health record in real time, addressing the industry‑wide problem that physicians only review roughly 3‑5% of available data during a typical visit....
Olivia Deitcher on Shifting From Transactional Prescriptions to Clinical Remission — Zest Health | VIVE 2026
Olivia Deitcher, founder and CEO of Zest Health, argues that specialty dermatology has become a transactional, prescription‑driven business. She highlights six‑month wait times for in‑person dermatologist appointments that leave patients with worsening chronic conditions like psoriasis. Zest Health offers a...
Maneesh Goyal on Unlocking Clinical Data for Global Discovery — Mayo Clinic Platform | VIVE 2026
Mayo Clinic Platform, led by COO Maneesh Goyal, is building a global network that pools de‑identified, longitudinal clinical data to power AI‑driven discovery. The initiative already runs more than 300 predictive algorithms that can flag disease before symptoms emerge, shifting...
Jared Goodner on Digitizing the Social Safety Net — Akido Labs | VIVE 2026
Akido Labs is building a unified data network that merges public health, emergency services, and social‑service records to capture the "dark matter" of healthcare—social determinants of health (SDOH). By overlaying SDOH data with clinical information, the platform lets care teams...
Book Review: The Future of Work — A Futurist’s Perspective on Technology and Innovation
Ian Khan, a top futurist, reviews the current "future of work" literature, noting that the best books focus on human adaptation to technology rather than tech itself. He highlights that AI will replace tasks, skill half‑lives are now under three...
The Nurse Who Almost Quit, and Why Her Story Is the Future of Healthcare
Ian Khan warns that the nursing profession faces a structural crisis, with a global shortfall of roughly 5.8 million nurses and an expected exodus of over one million U.S. registered nurses by 2030. Burnout, staffing gaps, and a 40% turnover rate...
Blinded by AI: The Accounting Industry’s $300 Billion Wake-Up Call
The rollout of Anthropic’s Claude legal plugin sparked a $300 billion market plunge and signaled that AI‑driven automation is now infiltrating accounting. Partnerships with Intuit and Xero have already embedded Claude agents into TurboTax, QuickBooks and Xero, allowing firms to automate...
Healthcare Innovation Special Report: Post-Conference Intelligence — ViVE 2026
The Futurist Global released a post‑conference report on ViVE 2026, drawing insights from 28 top digital‑health leaders. It highlights that physicians access only 3‑5% of patient data, while hospital data volumes are doubling every two years to roughly 50 petabytes per...
Generative AI Workshop | Ian Khan
Ian Khan, a Top‑25 futurist and AI author, offers a comprehensive generative AI workshop tailored for Fortune 500 and forward‑looking firms. The program blends foundational theory with hands‑on prompt‑engineering, enterprise adoption strategies, and responsible‑AI governance across six modular sessions. It can...
