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September 08, 2025 l Issue #318

🔍 Top Insights

1. Cleveland Clinic partners with Dyania Health for clinical trial recruitment with AI
2. OpenAI announces competition for LinkedIn
3. AMA releases AI governance toolkit for health systems
4. American Heart Association, Cadence enlist hospitals for at-home patient monitoring pilot

The Big Unlock Podcast

Using AI to Ease Clinician Burden and Deliver Real Value in Healthcare

Sameer Sethi, SVP and Chief AI & Insights Officer at Hackensack Meridian Health

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AI, Design, and the Future of Operational Workflows in Unlocking Healthcare Efficiency

With Dr. Michael Docktor, Co-founder and CEO at Dock Health

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Funding and M&A Moves

• Sycamore Partners closes acquisition of Walgreens, splits into 5 standalone companies
• EliseAI banks $250M to fire up healthcare automation business 

🤖 AI in Action

Use Case of the Week: Automate Medication Management  

Health System:  Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health uses AI from DrFirst within Epic EHR to automate medication management. Automation of prescription instructions rose from 26% to 86%, cutting manual entry and errors. The system also adds real-time cost transparency and delivers personalized, app-free medication messages to patients, improving safety, efficiency, and adherence. 

📊 Industry Spotlight

1. Mid-Year Update: Pharmaceuticals Key Themes For 2025

🧠 Thought Leadership

• Voice Agents That Work: Insights and Takeaways from the Latest Webinar
• Reducing Clinician Burden and Unlocking Value Through AI
• The Top 5 Real-World Problems Agentic Voice Agents Can Solve in Healthcare
• Driving Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Insights from Inderpal Kohli

📅 Upcoming Events

• Fierce Pharma Week (Philadelphia)
  – September 8-11, 2025 | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania Convention Center
• MGMA Leaders Conference – Sept. 28-October 1 | Orlando 

💬 From the Frontlines

“AI solutions serve as decision-support rather than decision-making tools… Agentic AI is the next frontier – integrating LLMs, RPA, and rule engines to automate complex processes such as prior authorizations and denial management.”

— Sameer Sethi, SVP and Chief AI & Insights Officer at Hackensack Meridian Health (The Big Unlock Podcast Episode #179)

Open Jobs

• Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• Generative AI Engineer (Backend & REST API Focus)
• Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)
• FHIR Integration Engineer – Epic EMR/EHR (Inbound Data Mapping)
• Bioinformatics ML/AI Engineer

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