When asked about this, executives emphasized the transformative potential of AI in healthcare How do they see the place of artificial intelligence in the sector in 2025?
Some expect multimodal AI and advanced diagnostic imaging to make significant progress next year, while others have shown that AI holds promise for improving diagnostics, solving staff burnout, automating tasks, streamlining drug development and improving patient outcomes. Yet skepticism persists in clinical practice due to barriers such as misaligned incentives and discomfort with data.
Dr. Michael Howell, the company’s chief clinical officer Google
We should be prepared for continued rapid progress in AI’s ability to transform healthcare. We are dealing with true multimodality, i.e. artificial intelligence that understands not only text, but also images, sound and video. This is an extremely vital change that will actually begin to enter health care in earnest in 2025.
We are also seeing a surge in demand from enterprises that want to employ AI agents to perform convoluted tasks rather than just answering questions or summarizing documents. I think this move towards agents will be very likely in 2025.
Finally, I hope that evidence from AI research in real-world healthcare settings will begin to accumulate. Healthcare is incredibly convoluted, and understanding where AI is most helpful requires evidence from thoughtful researchers, implementation scientists, and healthcare delivery scientists.
Roland Rott, president and CEO of Imaging at GE Healthcare
Artificial intelligence is driving significant advances in diagnostic imaging, enabling radiologists to detect subtle abnormalities that may be impossible to see with the human eye.
I think we will see an even greater impact of artificial intelligence in improving diagnostic accuracy next year. AI-based diagnostic imaging can lend a hand solve ongoing image quality issues related to noise and patient movement during scans. Artificial intelligence can overlay multiple images to fill in gaps that are less clear due to the patient’s movement, breathing or coughing. Clearer images lend a hand clinicians find information faster, helping them make the right diagnosis – and ultimately helping the patient develop the best treatment plan – sooner.
Matt Cybulsky, practice leader for the firm’s Healthcare Artificial Intelligence, Data and Product Innovation practice LBMC
It’s 2025 and AI in healthcare is a wave that’s not even close to peaking. Artificial intelligence is not a stand-alone tool and should not be anthropomorphized: it is an emerging technology, full of failures and promises.
This is best because it retains some human characteristics, and there is no better place for this in health care, where humanity grapples with arguments over healing, value, and markets. We need to start regularly reminding ourselves that this is not a substitute for human interaction; it is merely a hybrid tool and 2025 will reveal this.
In 2025, real interactions, outcomes, and employ cases across all sections of our industry will inspire, humble, and delight us. I’m here for the ride, that’s for sure.
Lisa Suennen, managing partner at American Heart Association activities
I don’t [see AI’s place in healthcare changing]. I think it will remain a largely administrative services world. The clinical world hasn’t quite figured out how to integrate AI for a variety of reasons – fear, misaligned incentives, discomfort with data, and so on. Entrepreneurs are still coming, investors are still investing, but buyers are taking the time to figure out how this brave modern world fits into their regular world. This will take some time.
Aaron Neiderhiser, co-founder and CEO Health of Tuva
Artificial intelligence is an electrifying trend and I expect to see more of it in 2025. Exploit cases will be proven and we will move from an electrifying but unproven technology to technology with real employ cases generating ROI.
This progress will lead to more organizations adopting AI. One concern is whether scaling regulations for vast language models will continue to apply. Evidence shows that newer models are not evolving as quickly as previous versions. If scaling regulations relax significantly in 2025, the likelihood of another “AI winter” is significant.
Hal Andrews, president and CEO Great health
It is unclear what place artificial intelligence holds in healthcare today. For AI to make a significant impact, stakeholders in the healthcare economy must realize that AI is very useful for lifeless, repetitive and rule-based tasks, which abound in healthcare.
Ellen Rudolph, co-founder and CEO Well, theory
Given the modern administration, we will likely see a more favorable regulatory environment that will enable AI to play an even more leading role in healthcare. We see emerging evidence that ChatGPT actually outperforms doctors when it comes to diagnosis and even has a better bedside manner.
Will 2025 be the year we get an FDA-cleared AI doctor? Maybe not, although I don’t think we’re particularly far off at this rate given the strong consumer adoption and preferences of younger generations.
Dan Nardi, CEO Reimagine care
Artificial intelligence will continue to gain traction in healthcare in 2025 and every year thereafter. In 2024, it seemed that many organizations were conducting diminutive initial phases to test the effectiveness of various AI tools. In the future, artificial intelligence will be increasingly used in all aspects of healthcare, including daily patient engagement and management, leading to further automation of processes that have previously been performed manually. This adoption is partly linked to the growing supply and demand gap.
Mudit Garg, CEO and co-founder Qventus
Artificial intelligence plays a key role in helping healthcare systems address provider burnout, reduced margins and delays in care. Leaders and employees have already squeezed every last drop out of the existing EHR, and one-size-fits-all AI solutions cannot build a sustainable, scalable healthcare system that works for both patients and providers. Instead of simply capturing data, healthcare systems need AI solutions to take informed actions on behalf of care teams across clinical settings to make a meaningful impact.
Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, CEO and co-founder well known
Artificial intelligence – particularly generative artificial intelligence – will lend a hand clinical teams assess patients’ medical histories to determine the most effective treatment strategies to ensure sustainable health in the area of obesity and across the health care system. In 2025, I predict we will have even more opportunities to advance evidence-based care models, strengthen patient experiences, strengthen value-based care frameworks, and optimize costs and outcomes.
Liz Beatty, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Innate
I see drug development as the next massive frontier for artificial intelligence. We’ve heard a lot about AI’s potential to transform drug discovery, but I don’t think we talk enough about its potential in drug development. There are many ways pharmaceutical companies can employ AI to streamline this notoriously unskilled process and bring effective modern drugs to market faster, both internally and in collaboration with research centers.
Internally, this could include using AI to identify modern trial sites with the right expertise or to reduce the number of trial participants needed. Meanwhile, research centers can employ artificial intelligence to analyze patient records and effectively pre-screen patients, rather than manually reviewing patient records.
Mimi Winsberg, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder Bright Side Health
In 2025, we will still see an AI revolution in healthcare. Artificial intelligence will be widely adopted as a time-saving assistant for doctors. Most clinicians welcome AI tools and assistants that lend a hand with automated tasks and case note generation, and user satisfaction to date has been high. These tools can lend a hand them spend time with patients rather than on repetitive administrative tasks.
Additionally, AI will improve diagnostic accuracy and predict response to treatment. Artificial intelligence will also communicate care information directly to patients. As models improve, trust in technology that actively supports both patients and physicians will boost, making mental health care more proactive and personalized.
Dave Wessinger, co-founder and CEO PointClickCare
Artificial intelligence and value-based care are two of the hottest buzzwords in healthcare today. Interestingly, the real power of the healthcare workforce lies at the intersection of AI and value-based care. Achieving modern efficiencies by automating processes and reducing administrative burdens to boost productivity seems uncomplicated, but trust is a significant barrier to automating everyday processes.
In 2025, while skepticism around AI remains, industry leaders will raise awareness of AI to lend a hand demonstrate the true value of automation, especially through proactive insights delivered at the point of care. Integrating these tools into regular workflows within a consistent operating model can mitigate perceived risks such as data security or compliance concerns, ensuring that automation is an asset rather than a threat. Looking ahead, the reward of increasing industry commitment to validating AI solutions and adapting them to real clinical needs will outweigh the risks.