HLTH 25 in Las Vegas: News roundup from the annual conference
This year, the four-day annual HLTH conference was held in Las Vegas from Oct. 19 to 22, where vendors, researchers and healthcare providers shared in the latest innovations. It's a massive event, held at the Venetian Expo Center, where the agenda includes industry awards, more than 400 speakers, expert panels and a plethora of announcements. Below is a selection of news from those who attended the show in 2025.
Baylor using Oracle AI to predict development of alcohol-related liver disease
Oracle Health and Baylor College of Medicine are partnering on a system to support research into the health outcomes of alcohol-related liver disease (ALD), a rapidly growing public health crisis that can be fatal. The combined AI and new data cohort could be used to develop new treatments. Baylor will use Oracle’s health data platform—which includes more than 120 million anonymized patient records—to build one of the nation’s largest datasets on ALD, said to contain over one million patients.
The new focused dataset can then be leveraged for a variety of analyses related to the disease. Baylor and Oracle said they’re hopeful that AI can help to identify risk factors and predictive markers, thus improving early detection of ALD and ultimately saving lives.
Read the full announcement here.
Atropos Health launches 'Evidence Agent' for automated clinical insights
Atropos Health unveiled a new AI tool that actively generates real-world evidence to support clinical decision-making, personalized to each patient encounter. Deployed at Stanford Health Care, the system is dubbed the Atropos Evidence Agent. It uses data from Stanford Medicine’s ChatEHR as a foundation, then integrates ambient data captured by Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot to provide patient-specific insights automatically.
After being assessed for quality by internal safeguards, relevant care insights are embedded into the EHR for clinicians to view, helping physicians save time while improving documentation. The full package aims to improve patient safety and support quality care delivery—all while reducing the burden of manual clerical work. The Evidence Agent is now available for U.S. health systems, with a free trial being offered to clinicians.
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Partnership aims to improve data flow, creating de facto interoperability
Redox and Kno2 are working together to solve interoperability challenges in healthcare. The companies said their now-combined network will connect nearly 160,000 provider organizations and supports over 40 billion annual transactions, covering 75% of health systems and 80% of non-acute care providers.
The collaboration works by integrating Kno2’s data movement capabilities with Redox’s integration infrastructure, allowing healthcare organizations to securely share and use data across formats like HL7, FHIR and CDA. The resulting platform also provides access to federal health information networks, via Kno2’s status as a qualified health information network.
Available in early 2026, the companies said the new system aims to improve the flow of data, to make it actionable by the providers and hospitals who need it for patient care.
More details are available here.
Empathic AI system made to improve behavioral health
Eleos Health has launched Polaris AI, a next-generation artificial intelligence model for post-acute care, built on Google Cloud’s secure, HIPAA-compliant infrastructure and trained on millions of real-world behavioral health sessions.
As the company noted in an announcement, “conversation is treatment”—and so, this tool listens and provides feedback. The model is designed to address the complex needs of behavioral health, substance use disorder, home health and hospice care patients, by using proprietary technology to interpret tone, emotion and context in clinical conversations. This information is then used to help clinicians inform patient care and enhance therapy techniques, based on their experience and training.
The full press release can be found here.
Private 5G deployed to meet mobile data needs of hospitals
Verizon is looking to solve the increasing need for data bandwidth at hospitals, which are increasingly reliant on the use of mobile and internet-connected devices. In announcing new partnerships with AdventHealth and Tampa General Hospital, the company has deployed neutral host and private 5G networks, which will help to boost signals for patients and visitors, while ensuring clinicians and administrative staff stay connected.
Built with Ericsson technology, this new network infrastructure provides a necessary upgrade, enabling the facilities to manage their current data-reliant workflows and IT systems, all while leaving room for the inevitable future additions and new technology sure to come online in the future.
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A 'Spare Tire' for EHRs hit by ransomware
ShelterZoom may have a solution to downtime caused by cyberattacks, system failures and other disruptions that take IT systems offline. Appropriately named “Spare Tire,” it acts as a backup to EHRs that can work offline, enabled by frequent syncing to the primary record system. Clinicians that would rely on paper operations can use Spare Tire to engage with the EHR instead, with all inputs made during patient care saved for automatic reintegration once things are back up and running.
The tool has received praise from healthcare leaders at NYU Langone and Northwell Health for its ability to maintain workflow continuity even in challenging times, such as when a hacker cell locks systems down with ransomware. Spare Tire is vendor agnostic and can be integrated into most EHRs. ShelterZoom said it is available now, and provider groups and hospitals are welcome to take advantage of a free evaluatory trial.
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KLAS announces Top 20 Emerging Solutions honors at HLTH
At HLTH25, KLAS Research unveiled its Top 20 Emerging Solutions list, with honorees being presented awards during the show. Based on input and feedback from the actual users of these technologies, as well as industry thought leaders, KLAS believes the recognized solutions all excel improving patient care outcomes, containing costs, providing a better experience to patients and reducing clinician burnnout—aligning with the goals of the Quadruple Aim.
Key areas of innovation of the last year include AI, interoperability, cybersecurity and technologies that improve compliance.
Winners include Artisight, AmplifyMD, Ambience Healthcare, DeepScribe, Onpoint Healthcare Partners, Fathom, Tennr, Clarus Care, Rivia Health, eInsights and DexCare, ranked across four categories. Some received multiple honors.
The full list and KLAS report are available here.
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