Forbes October 31, 2024
At the HLTH 2024 conference this month, over 12,000 healthcare industry leaders gathered in Las Vegas to discuss and debate the bold course for the future of healthcare. For anyone in attendance, one inescapable element of this future would have been unmistakable: artificial intelligence (AI). As Abhinav Shashank, CEO of Innovaccer, noted, “Of the 250 startups present, 200 had ‘AI’ embedded in their marketing.”
In fairness, AI continues to drive a great deal of enthusiasm and investment, with AI startups capturing almost a third of all venture funding in Q3 2024, and a quarter of digital health investment. Not to mention, the biggest digital health IPO of the year was Tempus AI (the “AI” suffix added to the core Tempus...