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July 28, 2025 l Issue #315

🔍 Top Insights

1. Stanford Pioneers Medical LLM ChatBot Model
2. New AI system uncovers hidden cell subtypes, boosts precision medicine 
3. Humana Accelerates Efforts to Eliminate Prior Authorization Requirements to Ensure a Faster, More Seamless Process

The Big Unlock Podcast

Interoperability and AI Adoption are the Pillars of Healthcare

With Michael Marchant, Director of Digital Applications at Sutter Health

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Aligning AI Fundamentals with User Experience in Pharma

Michael Hughes, Senior EVP, Chief Transformation and Innovation Officer at United Church Homes (UCH)

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Funding and M&A Moves

• Aidoc Secures $110M to Advance Its AI-Driven Healthcare Platform
• OpenEvidence raises $210M, unveils AI agents built for advanced medical research 

🤖 AI in Action

Use Case of the Week

AI Company:  Anthropic 

Anthropic’s teams use Claude Code across departments—data engineering, security, product, growth marketing, design, API/knowledge, and legal—to automate workflows, debug with screenshots, onboard new hires, prototype features, generate documentation and ads, build agent-driven systems, and reduce context switching for dramatically boosted productivity.

📊 Industry Spotlight

1. To implement health AI, first decide who’s accountable 
2. Explainability in the age of large language models for healthcare
3. Midyear update: 2025 AI predictions

🧠 Thought Leadership

• AI in Pharma Beyond R&D: Novo Nordisk’s Alicia Abella on Building a Scalable Innovation Model
• Improving Cash Flow Through Smarter Revenue Cycle Management Using AI and Voice Agents (Case Study)
• Apple’s Wearable AI Detects Pregnancy with Over 90% Accuracy

In the News

• Steadman Philippon Research Institute Partners with BigRio to Modernize Outcomes Research Infrastructure

💬 From the Frontlines

“Generative AI gives us the ability to surface hidden patterns in social determinant data and design care plans around what truly motivates people. That’s how we move from reactive care to proactive, personalized support.”  
—   Michael Hughes, Senior EVP, Chief Transformation and Innovation Officer at United Church Homes (Episode 173, The Big Unlock Podcast) 

📅 Upcoming Events

• Spotlight on Innovation: Reintroducing the HIMSS25 Emerging Healthcare Leaders Poster Presenters – August 5, 2025 | Online I Webinar
• The Current State of Interoperability in Pharmacy and Beyond
  – August 19, 2025 | Online | Webinar

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• AI Digital Twin Engineer – Healthcare Modeling
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• Solutions Architect / Senior Engineer – Gen AI Coding
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