AI 411: October 2025

Welcome back to AI 411, a monthly roundup of AI announcements from across the healthcare industry.

October was a big month for health tech and it was the star of the show at the 2025 HLTH conference in Las Vegas, which not only had a designated AI area but also many conversations about emerging technologies.

Here’s your breakdown of October health-related AI updates from across the industry.

Alignmt AI. AI governance and risk management company Alignmt AI announced Oct. 1 a collaboration with the MSK Innovation Hub at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a cancer institution in New York, to help enhance its oncology AI governance.

American Medical Association (AMA). On Oct. 20, the AMA launched a Center for Digital Health and AI, a new initiative meant to incorporate doctors into “shaping, guiding, and implementing technologies transforming medicine,” according to a press release. It covers how AI impacts everything from policy to clinical workflow to education.

Autonomize AI. Agentic AI company Autonomize AI announced Oct. 16 the Autonomize AI Studio, a new workspace for providers to design operational and clinical workflows. The company also announced an agent marketplace that allows business, clinical, and IT teams to create customizable AI agents to organize their workflows.

Brook.ai. Remote care monitoring company Brook.ai announced a $28 million Series B fundraising round Oct. 16, led by Massachusetts-based health system UMass Memorial Health and venture capital firm Morningside.

Canary Speech. Canary Speech, which uses AI to power vocal biomarker technology to screen for mental health and neurological disorders, launched Canary Ambient Continuous Monitoring on Oct. 15. It provides continuous and real-time aggression detection and ambient voice analysis for providers, aiming to reduce violence against clinicians.

Heidi Health. Health tech company Heidi Health, which created an AI care partner to automate administrative work like documentation, announced a $65 million Series B fundraising round on Oct. 5. Funding was led by investment firm Point72 Private Investments and brings its total funding to about $100 million.

Hinge Health. Digital physical therapy clinic Hinge Health launched two AI tools on Oct. 21. The first is a movement analysis tool that uses computer vision to track and provide musculoskeletal care. The second, called Robin, is an AI-based assistant that supports patients through their pain flare-ups.

Penguin Ai. Health tech Penguin Ai, which seeks to build more efficiency into care management, announced on Oct. 16 a partnership with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Enterprises to design new AI tools for the healthcare industry.

Twin Health. AI digital twin company Twin Health shared news on Oct. 14 of a partnership with exercise company Peloton, allowing Twin Health’s members to add workouts into their AI digital twin care plans.

Viz.ai. Viz.ai, which develops AI for disease detection and care coordination, launched Viz Assist on Oct. 20. The platform has AI agents that provide care teams with patient data so clinicians can create more efficient treatment plans and help improve patient outcomes.

WellSky. On Oct. 8, health tech company WellSky announced WellSky Scribe, an ambient listening and note-taking tool for its electronic health record platform, WellSky Home Health.