AI, Care at Home, and the New Wave of Healthcare Innovation

ViVE 2025 brought together more than 8,000 healthcare leaders, innovators, and changemakers to explore technology’s transformative role in healthcare. This year’s jam-packed agenda tackled pressing topics like artificial intelligence (AI), interoperability, and value-based care. Our team was thrilled to be part of the action in Nashville, engaging in meaningful discussions about innovations reshaping care delivery. Here’s what stood out:

AI Takes Center Stage

AI predictably dominated conversations, signaling its expanding role in healthcare. The application of AI-driven automation is proving invaluable in enhancing clinician workflows and reducing administrative burdens, allowing providers to focus more on direct patient care rather than paperwork.

However, broader AI adoption hinges on thoughtful technology design that fosters trust, addresses ethical concerns, and ensures provider autonomy. Health systems want to invest in AI solutions that empower providers, not create additional challenges. The main takeaway: AI solutions must support the mission of delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.

The Next Phase of Healthcare Transformation

The dialogue at ViVE reflected an industry looking beyond the COVID-19 era, focusing on the next five to ten years. The shift isn’t just about adopting new technology, it’s ensuring healthcare becomes more effective, efficient, and accessible. The industry has seen its share of tech that overpromises and underdelivers, leading to frustration and wasted resources.

The future belongs to solutions that integrate seamlessly into existing workflows, providing actionable insights without adding complexity. While AI and digital health tools are playing an increasingly important role, they don’t replace clinical care. Instead, technology should enable health systems to rethink traditional models and provide care in ways that weren’t possible before—and crucially, enabling providers’ ability to deliver high-quality patient care and exceptional outcomes.

Home-based Care is Here to Stay

Safe and accessible in-home advanced care programs are no longer a nice-to-have, they’re essential. But scaling them requires robust, trustworthy, and reliable technology to support both providers and patients. The infrastructure behind home-based care must be as strong as the clinical expertise driving it.

Our COO, Dave Zimmerman, joined a dynamic ViVE 2025 panel on the evolving landscape of post-acute care at home and its direct connection to value-based care. Key takeaways included:

• Care at home is value-based care. Bringing advanced care to the home is financially tied to patient outcomes, making efficiency and effectiveness crucial.
• Provider efficiency is a top priority. Organizations are optimizing provider workflows to ensure seamless, effective care at home.
• Earlier patient identification is key. Identifying and directing patients to acute and post-acute home-based care sooner improves outcomes and lowers costs.
• The business case is strong.  Early adopters see increased capacity, stronger patient relationships, better adherence, and fewer readmissions.
• Payer buy-in remains a challenge. Proving cost-effectiveness is key to overcoming fee-for service barriers and driving adoption.
• Care at home complements traditional hospitals. It expands capacity, optimizes resources, and delivers high-quality care where patients feel most comfortable.

Until Next Year, ViVE!

After four days of thought-provoking discussions, panels, and connections, we left Nashville inspired about what’s ahead. ViVE 2025 reinforced the next chapter of healthcare will extend beyond hospital walls.

The question isn’t whether advanced care at home programs will take a central role—it’s how we ensure the technology, processes, and strategies supporting it work in unison to enable better care without adding unnecessary complexity. We’re excited to keep pushing boundaries, driving transformation, and working alongside our peers to make care at home the standard.

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