Report: Unlockign the Value of AI in Healthcare

Crossing the Clinical Chasm

Unlocking the Value of AI in Healthcare

AI is already transforming healthcare—helping patients access care from home, equipping doctors with better tools for diagnosis and treatment, and even predicting health outcomes before symptoms appear. It’s not just about automation; it’s about changing how care is delivered, improving access, and reducing costs while empowering both patients and providers.

Our deep dive into AI in healthcare reveals some of the most intriguing and promising directions emerging today—from handheld diagnostic devices and remote monitoring tools to AI-driven precision medicine and clinical trial acceleration. We also explore what patients and doctors actually expect from these technologies, and how developers are approaching issues of trust, transparency, and human oversight.

With insights from 20+ entrepreneurs and innovators building AI-powered solutions, this report offers a practical look at what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next. It’s a roadmap for how startups are navigating regulatory hurdles, data access issues, and adoption barriers—and where the biggest opportunities lie in the years ahead.

In this report you will find:

A clear picture of how AI is already transforming U.S. healthcare—from home diagnostics to precision medicine
Case studies from startups like FibriCheck, Bloom Standard, and Samay showing diverse adoption strategies
Insights into patient and physician expectations around AI use, trust, and clinical integration
A breakdown of key barriers startups face—like data access, regulatory approval, and workflow integration
Frameworks for understanding how AI tools cross the “chasm” from early adopters to mainstream use
Strategies innovators are using to build partnerships with hospitals, pharma companies, and regulators
Real-world examples of how AI is expanding care access, personalizing treatment, and improving outcomes
A forward-looking view of how AI might reshape the doctor-patient relationship and redefine value in care

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PARTICIPATING COMPANIES

FibriCheck transforms smartphone devices into medical devices able to detect and monitor heart rhythm conditions such as atrial fibrillation remotely, with AI-backed insights and clinical reporting.

Rhino Federated Computing enables privacy-preserving AI development in healthcare through federated learning, allowing hospitals to train and validate models without sharing raw data.

Thirona applies AI to lung and retinal imaging, helping radiologists and specialists deliver earlier and more accurate diagnoses of diseases like COPD and diabetic retinopathy.

Bloom Standard has developed the EVA RAPIDscan self-driving ultrasound system to earlier detect and assess pediatric patients for heart and lung conditions. The FDA Breakthrough technology combines novel sensor hardware with AI-based software to allow any level of healthcare staff to rapidly place, scan and assess babies and children, even in resource-limited settings.

Heartbeat Health integrates AI, remote diagnostics, and telecardiology services to enable scalable, value-based cardiovascular care, helping providers manage heart disease more proactively.

Samay is developing Sylvee, a digital tool for remote COPD screening and monitoring, enabling pharma and healthcare systems to lower diagnosis costs and track therapeutic impact.

Thorne HealthTech is focused on personalized wellness and health optimization through a combination of AI, diagnostics, and supplement solutions, with an emphasis on preventive care and bio-individual insights.

Cellular Vehicles develops AI-powered logistics infrastructure to enable the scale-up of patient-specific cell therapies, optimizing cold chain and scheduling for autologous treatments.

Ligence uses AI to automate echocardiogram analysis and reporting, reducing variability and time requirements while enhancing diagnostic accuracy in cardiology.

Springbok Analytics uses AI to deliver 3D muscle health maps from MRI scans, providing athletes, clinicians, and patients with insights into muscle asymmetries, injury risk, and recovery progress.

wisepatientAI gives patients a single interface to view and query their complete medical record across providers, enabling a new kind of digital health assistant that simplifies chronic care management and medication tracking.

WHAT'S NEXT?

We are turning our research into a searchable database of the most insightful quotes and RESOURCES that we encountered so that you can draw your own conclusions, explore best practices from innovators developing AI for healthcare, and share your own ideas.

METHODS OF RESEARCH

StratCraft team conducted in-person interviews with company leaders: CEOs, CSOs, CMOs, CTOs. Documenting their mission, vision for crossing the chasm, and particular challenges and opportunities they encountered to-date.

We also spoke with several physicians - to gauge reactions to AI technologies.

We used secondary research sources such as press releases on recent technological advancements and partnerships, market reports, and podcast interviews with regulators, innovators, and ethics experts. Notable sources include the Biomedical Frontiers Podcast, Project MedTech, and the International Healthcare Symposium.

We utilized the Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers to frame our thinking around the differences between innovators vs mainstream adopters in the context of healthcare and our own expertise in technology commercialization to present a critical assessment of the adoption paths chosen by various compaies.

We used AI to help organize, edit, and illustrate our research. Specific uses included pulling quotes from interview transcripts, generating the color schemes and cover image of the final report, critiquing and editing the final written report, writing summaries for website placement & social media distribution, and helping us code the dynamic database of quotes and resources.