Hosts Open Mic on 2025
Throughout 2024 our radio and podcast hosts brought us discussions about the latest insights, breakthroughs, and trends shaping the healthcare landscape. As we embark on another year of changes and advancements, we asked them to forecast what the healthcare industry might look like in 2025. Here is what they had to say.
Megan Antonelli, CEO, HealthIMPACT Live
LinkedIn: Megan Antonelli
Host of Digital Health Talks
Drawing from our deep connection with health system innovators and technology leaders throughout 2024, here’s my perspective on healthcare’s trajectory in 2025:
We’re entering the era of practical innovation. The digital health hype cycle is maturing into tangible, measurable impact. Health systems will aggressively digitize non-clinical workflows while maintaining the essential human touch in patient care. This isn’t just about efficiency – it’s about survival and sustainability.
The tension between private and public healthcare will intensify as systems grapple with balancing profitability and equitable access. Healthcare disparities will remain at the forefront, challenging us to find sustainable solutions that bridge the gap between commercial innovation and public health needs.
TEFCA’s maturation will be pivotal, finally enabling meaningful data exchange across the healthcare ecosystem. This interoperability breakthrough will drive the integration of point solutions and specialty providers – both digital and traditional – into more cohesive care networks. Success will hinge on connecting these disparate elements into coordinated care delivery systems that actually work for patients and providers.
The industry must move beyond siloed solutions toward connected platforms that deliver measurable outcomes. Those who succeed will be the ones who master innovation, integration, and impact.
Justin Barnes
LinkedIn: Justin Barnes, FHIMSS
Host of This Just In Radio Show
Living the Initial Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has shown significant potential, but 2025 will be the year we start “living the promise” of AI in healthcare. We’ve seen early evidence of AI’s ability to improve outcomes, streamline operations, and enhance patient care, but it’s the growing collaboration between healthcare providers and technology companies that is turning this promise into reality.
From Promise to Progress: AI’s Impact in 2025
AI has already shown tremendous potential in diagnostic accuracy, predictive analytics, and personalized patient engagement. In recent years, healthcare providers have begun integrating AI-driven solutions in ways that directly impact patient outcomes, from using machine learning to predict patient deterioration to streamlining administrative tasks and optimizing treatment pathways. This year, I expect we’ll see more evidence that these AI solutions are not only scalable but sustainable and effective across various healthcare environments.
Collaborative Momentum: Healthcare and Tech Companies Join Forces
What excites me most about AI’s role in 2025 is the collaboration happening at the intersection of healthcare providers and technology innovators. Hospitals, health systems, and clinics are increasingly working with tech companies to tailor AI-driven solutions to meet their specific needs, which means more healthcare providers can take advantage of customized, cutting-edge innovation to better serve their patients. This partnership approach ensures that AI solutions are not only designed with clinical expertise in mind but are also flexible enough to adapt to each institution’s unique workflows and specific patient care plans.
A Glimpse Into the Future of AI in Healthcare
While we’re still in the early phases of AI integration, the progress so far is laying a solid foundation for a future where AI-driven solutions are as fundamental to healthcare as EHRs and data interoperability. As AI continues to evolve, I predict it will play a more proactive role in areas like predictive analytics for chronic care management, real-time patient monitoring, at-home care models, and workflow automation—allowing providers to focus more time on direct patient care that improves patients’ conditions while also improving their quality of life.
In 2025, I believe we’ll see AI establish itself as an indispensable partner in healthcare, proving that the benefits of machine learning and advanced analytics aren’t just theoretical but practical, tangible, and, most importantly, lifesaving.
Gil Bashe, Managing Partner, Chair Global Health, FINN Partners
LinkedIn: Gil Bashe
Host of Health UnaBASHEd
In the year ahead, we will realize that “AI” is not a panacea but an instrument for “augmented implementation.” Too often, we lean on technology to provide all answers, but the actual value of AI lies in its ability to enhance human expertise—not replace it. It becomes the new shiny objective that captures our attention. However, the health ecosystem is built on relationships, trust, and nuanced decision-making, qualities that algorithms cannot replicate. AI, when applied thoughtfully, enables us to process complex data faster and see patterns within the forest of data otherwise unseen. Yet, we must remain grounded in the understanding that this “big data” tool augments the mission of health delivery; it does not fulfill it. The focus should always be empowering physicians, patients, payers, policymakers and product innovators to make more informed, empathetic decisions. AI serves as an amplifying framework to accelerate implementation rather than an infallible guide.
Jim Tate, EMR Advocate
LinkedIn: Jim Tate
Host of The Tate Chronicles
Sometimes the future casts its shadow on the present. I’m seeing two shadows coming from 2025. The first is uncertainty based on directions the new administration will take regarding healthcare. Change is coming but we don’t know if it will be in terms of policy, reimbursement, or something unpredictable. Only time will tell but I’m expecting a change in the river’s course. Easier to predict is the growing use of AI, especially in areas such as revenue cycle management (RCM). Just as the first wave of word processors killed off typewriters, RCM software and process that don’t leverage AI will fall by the wayside.
Hosts Colin Hung and John Lynn discuss 2025 Healthcare IT Predictions on Healthcare IT Today.
It’s the holiday season and as we say goodbye to 2024 and welcome in 2025, host Carol Flagg of What’s My Tagline? talks with Beth Friedman, host of FINN Voices. Beth joins the show to talk about her take on not wasting a single content asset. The two also discuss a couple of trends for 2025.
Host Shahid Shah and producer Gregg Masters of Trending NOW invite Healthcare NOW Radio host Dr. Nick from News You Can Use to talk predictions. After a year of talking to their guests what do they have to say?
Host Tom Foley of The Virtual Shift welcomes a round table of some of Healthcare NOW Radio hosts to discuss 2025 predictions. Listen in to hear Fred Goldstein from PopHealth Week, Matt Fisher from Healthcare de Jure, and Dan Marino from Value-Based Care Insights.
