Healthcare AI News 11/5/25

News

Nearly all surveyed health system executives believe that digital and AI tools can help them move to more proactive care. Most see key areas as providing off-campus care, using CRM systems to schedule ongoing care, collecting health data via devices, implementing AI health coaches to answer questions and help patients follow their care plans, and predicting health risks using AI. They also hope to personalize patient care using connected device monitoring, offering multiple communication channels, using technology to personalize care plans and messages.

Health insurers will use AI to counter the use by providers of AI-powered coding and billing, which they say has increased medical cost and thus decreased their profit. According to Centene’s CFO, “It does seem like hospitals have gotten better organized around the application of AI for coding than payers. But we’re going to catch up to that.”

OpenAI denies several viral social media posts claiming that ChatGPT has been disabled from providing health advice. However, the company says that its updated terms of service advise that the chatbot is not a substitute for professional advice and it will no longer provide a diagnosis or patient-specific treatment plan, reportedly due to legal and regulatory exposure.

Business

Hancock Health will use AI-driven robotic automation from Arrive AI to deliver lab specimens, a project that also includes drone-based transport for offsite deliveries.

Mayo Clinic announces Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights, which gives healthcare organizations access to its AI-driven clinical and operational expertise for digital solutions implementation. Mayo didn’t specify which modules or problem areas it will address or provide details about selling its services.

Healthcare AI agent vendor Hippocratic AI announces $126 million in Series C funding at a valuation of $3.5 billion. The company plans to use some of the proceeds to pursue mergers and acquisitions. It offers AI agents that handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks such as medication reminders and screening outreach.

For-profit urgent care chain Med First finds that AI-coded visits yield 6% more revenue than when physician codes visits themselves.

Tala Health, which develops AI agents to support clinicians and to address administrative burden, raises $100 million in financing.

Tulio Health Technologies launches CareCapture, an app that generates AI summaries of visits that patients can share to improve recall, adherence, and confidence.

Research

Northwell Health researchers report that AI analysis of continuous wearable data from non-ICU inpatients accurately predicted patient deterioration an average of 17 hours in advance.

Other

OpenAI recognizes pharma and life sciences marketing firm Doceree for using 10 billion AI tokens, making it one of the most advanced users of AI technology.

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