Digital health conference ViVE 2025 in Nashville wrapped on Wednesday–and surprisingly, there weren’t any bombshells. The well-attended Sunday-Wednesday conference in the Music City was abbreviated due to…snow. Even though the snow came in at a less-than-forecast 1.5 inches, many participants, concerned about flights, headed for home.
Observations from an (anonymous) attendee on HIStalk (News 2/19/25 and 2/21/25) were generally positive. He or she reported a filled conference, show floor, and meeting spaces at the Nashville Convention Center and much more. Highlights:
- 10,000 attendees–2,500 more than ViVE 2023 in Nashville, and 2,000 more than 2024 in Los Angeles. 30% were C–level from 725 provider and payer organizations represented. Tuesday was the busiest day but only 2,000 remained on Wednesday due to the snow report.
- The real action took place in 1:1 and group meetings, most pre-scheduled–over 5,000 were booked in ViVE’s meeting spaces and “cubes”. The Provider and Payer Connect Lounge was much larger with at least 170 small tables for meetings with vendors. Unsurprisingly, the Investor Connect Lounge was smaller. The impression this person had was that there were fewer investors attending this year.
- The show floor had a lot of activity and was nearly filled. Effectively every vendor pitched their AI capabilities. By the last day, usually the lightest anyway but with the snow, one-third were unattended or packed up.
- Sparsely attended and in smaller spaces: the four primary presentation stages.
ViVE has become a place to meet, talk, initiate/advance the buyer journey, and move towards a ‘deal deal’. It’s also for scoping out the competition. Presentations and panels have become beside the point.
A third article in HIStalk’s Readers Write were additional reflections from Mike Silverstein, a managing partner at DRI (Direct Recruiter Inc.), recruiting in the health IT and life sciences area. AI tools “are really getting smart, borderline scary smart”–especially AI agents being trained on “serious healthcare data and workflows”. Vendors are layering their workflows on top of off-the-shelf AI agents and the speed to market is “blinding”. Investment is up too with less ‘hand to mouth.’
Announcements, heavy on the AI, made during ViVE and recapped in MedCity News:
- Data analytics firm MultiPlan rebranded as Claritev. The company provides payments and pricing solutions based on healthcare claims data. It will start trading on the NYSE under CTEV next Friday 28 February. Release
- Abridge announced their $250 million Series D [TTA 21 Feb]
- Automation platform developer Innovaccer announced seven new AI agents. These ‘agents of care’ automate administrative tasks in scheduling, protocol intake, referrals, prior authorizations, care gap, HCC, and patient access. The agents are designed to support multiple care teams, including clinicians, care managers, risk coders, patient navigators, and call center agents. Release
- Lumeris launched an AI tool, Tom, that automates tasks like care coordination, chronic disease management and patient outreach in clinical workflows for primary care providers. Release
- UPMC Enterprises soft-launched a virtual environment, Ahavi, for developers to test and evaluate the efficacy of AI models against UPMC’s patient population data. UPMC Enterprises is the innovation and commercialization arm of the UPMC health system. More on this from HealthPoint and FierceHealthcare.
- IKS Health launched a generative AI scribe, Scribble Now. It automates notes during the patient visit via automated speech recognition (ASR) and generative AI (GenAI). Release
- Healthcare operations software developer Symplyr launched the Symplr Operations Platform (SOP). It unifies separate solutions onto a AWS cloud-based infrastructure to unify disparate solutions. Release
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