Tech in aging, predictive AI 'n more!

Healthcare through a Kentucky lens. It's niche. But neat! 🍂

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Andrew Steen
September 23, 2025

Fall, y’all. 🍂

Managed Care Organizations Outlook

An analysis by Morningstar, Inc. This slide; “PBMs Also Target the Large, Fast-Growing Specialty Drug Market, Which Combines PBM and Caregiving Services.” By my count, I see two Louisville-based companies on the list.

Y’all, broken record here.

Pharmacy: A 'Hidden' Niche in Louisville?

Health Enterprise Partners recently published 2024 Reflections & Predictions in partnership with L.E.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/pharmacy-louisville-niche-industry-liverpoollane-com-sgabe

Double down.

Ascension’s innovation tournament

🎯 “The health system is also incubating new technologies. Ascension’s innovation tournament selects the most promising ideas from frontline staffers and puts them in front of leadership every six to 12 months. The health system’s innovation incubators work with service lines to identify and accelerate new needs.” 🎯 

Just. Y’all. Yes.

Why Ascension is doubling down on digital innovation - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis

St. Louis-based Ascension is doubling down on innovation with digital nudges for patients and clinicians and an increased focus on virtual care and remote patient monitoring. To that end, the 121-hospital system recently launched a Clinical Innovation Institute to enhance the digital patient and provider experience. “A lot of times, healthcare can be transactional: You […]

www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/digital-health/why-ascension-is-doubling-down-on-digital-innovation/?origin=DigitalE&utm_source=DigitalE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=9128I7569089J3D

Hospitals and predictive AI

This Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy data brief—Hospital Trends in the Use, Evaluation, and Governance of Predictive AI, 2023-2024—is chock full of interesting nuggets.

This is epic; “Predictive AI use also varied by EHR vendor: 90% of hospitals using the market leading EHR vendor used predictive AI in 2024 compared to just 50% of hospitals using the other vendors.”

Technology in Aging Services: Part I

“The inaugural 2025 Ziegler Link•age Funds/ LeadingAge CAST survey was designed to understand how not-for-profit senior living and care organizations are approaching technology strategy, adoption, and innovation.”

Technology in Aging Services: Part II

“Home care had the largest percentage of respondents (60.3%) who said that tech is ‘extremely important’ to their organization’s goals, compared with skilled nursing (50.1%) and senior living (48.8%).”

Survey reveals LTC providers’ readiness, eagerness to capitalize on tech

Long-term care providers are bullish on the prospect of using more technology to improve resident and patient outcomes — and keep themselves out of legal trouble. Those are some of the clear conclusions drawn from the results of the inaugural McKnight’s State of Technology Survey.

www.mcknightsseniorliving.com/news/survey-reveals-ltc-providers-readiness-eagerness-to-capitalize-on-tech

LifeSciKY news

“In addition to PAN Biologics, Clareo Biosciences, a Louisville-based company, will move into OneNKY Center laboratory.”

LifeSciKY welcomes three biotech startups to Covington’s new OneNKY Center

LifeSciKY’s new lab at the OneNKY Center in Covington welcomed three biotech startups focused on cancer therapy, genomics and fertility.

linknky.com/business/entrepreneurship/2025/09/17/lifesciky-welcomes-three-biotech-startups-to-covingtons-new-onenky-center/#:~:text=By%20crafting%20a%20personalized%20immune,Distilling%2C%20titled%20Bourbon%20for%20Science.

Other recent Clareo news, ICYMI.

Clareo! Aging, RPM and more...

Neat!

liverpoollane.beehiiv.com/p/clareo-aging-rpm-and-more-fbec

Dr. Sharp

“Biogen CEO Chris Viehbacher hoisted his shovel, alongside MIT President Sally Kornbluth, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, and Biogen co-founders Walter Gilbert and Phillip Sharp, at a groundbreaking of the company’s new headquarters on Tuesday.” Just a reminder that Dr. Sharp—a Nobel Prize winner—was born in Falmouth, KY.

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