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Agentic AI and Longevity - Key topics at NextMed Health 2025
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Agentic AI and Longevity - Key topics at NextMed Health 2025

Faces of Digital Health

April 8, 202543m 35s

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Show Notes

NextMed Health in a healthtech and biotech conference exploring the most forward thinking ideas and topics in healthcare. Taking place in San Diego, a four day programme covered topics such as latest developments in AI, aging, increasing lifespan and longevity, addressing mental health and exercise through VR, and more.


In this special episode of Faces of digital health, Gary Monk and Tjasa Zajc reflect on the key findings through additional discussions with:


  • Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH,ย Founder, AIMed. Chief Intelligence & Innovation Office, Children's Hospital of Orange Countyย 
  • Daniel Kraft, MD, ย Founder & Chair, NextMed Health.
  • Bayo Curry-Winchell, MD,ย Founder, Beyond Clinical Walls. Urgent Care Medical Director, Saint Mary's Health Network
  • Steven Brown,ย AI developer, Coder, founder, investor, filmmaker
  • Jennifer Garrison,ย PhD, Professor, Buck Institute. Co-Founder & Director, ProductiveHealth.org
  • Eric Topol, MD,ย ย Founder and Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute


What's covered:

๐€๐ˆ ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ

โ–ถ๏ธ Case Study โ€“ Stephen Brown

โ–ถ๏ธ Custom AI Tool Development: Brown built his own AI-based application using various LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), emphasizing data cleaning, model cross-evaluation, and reliability testing.


Anthony Chang: Claimed it will soon be unethical not to use AI in areas like radiology, where AI improves diagnostic accuracy.


๐“๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž:

โ–ถ๏ธ Lack of AI education among clinicians.

โ–ถ๏ธ Absence of AI strategies in hospitalsโ€”often even lacking data governance.

โ–ถ๏ธ Misaligned financial incentives across stakeholders.

โ–ถ๏ธ Bias and Representation


๐–๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง'๐ฌ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก & ๐Ž๐ฏ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง

โ–ถ๏ธ Ovaries Beyond Reproduction: ovaries regulate broader systemic health via signaling pathways (like โ€œWi-Fiโ€), impacting bone, skin, and possibly all organs

โ–ถ๏ธ Gaps in Research


๐‹๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐‘๐ข๐ฌ๐ค ๐๐ซ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง & ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐Œ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ง๐ž

Eric Topolโ€™s View:

โ–ถ๏ธ Real progress in longevity stems from data-driven insights (organ clocks, plasma proteomics) and predictive risk modelingโ€”not supplements or unproven interventions.

โ–ถ๏ธ AI enables individualized, timed risk prediction for major age-related diseases (cancer, heart disease, neurodegeneration).

๐Ÿ›‘ ๐Ÿ›‘ Warned against overreliance on consumer-grade longevity services offering generalized, possibly irrelevant tests.


RESOURCES

If you haven't yet, read the newsletter "NextMed Health Day 1: An Update on AI, AI agents and Agentic AI in Healthcare" https://lnkd.in/dzHQsiMC

See recaps from Gary Monk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garywmonk/

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTZGXjAFMWk&t=33s

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Newsletter: https://fodh.substack.com/

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