Future Healthcare Trends: Insights from Halcyon's 2025 Health Cohort

Halcyon’s 2025 Health cohort recently concluded their eight-week residency in Washington, DC—but not without leaving their parting insights on the future of the healthcare. From personalization and precision care to finding the creative side of AI, check out these predictions for what’s next in health from the brightest innovators in the space:

Andrea Crewe ( Vitaliti ): “From working with other individuals [at Halcyon], I really see the role of behavior change—so not just the advancement of technology. Especially with AI, we are so flooded with information and resources constantly; it’s not necessarily that patients or clients or individuals need more information, but we need more actionable ways to incorporate behavior change to see the impacts on our health. So, I think a trend in the future is going to be: How do we help individuals not only get the information they need, but start implementing those changes in their daily lives?” 

Kehlin Swain Greens Health : “Creativity and leveraging personal insights. We’ve been using natural language processing; once we have someone’s personality—what region you’re from, what’s your favorite sports team, [who’s] your favorite comedian—you can personalize messaging on a whole new level creatively speaking and use as many metaphors and similes as you want to make a very complex medical topic actually hit home for someone below literacy. I think there’s a huge opportunity in that area, and also closing the gap for a health coach or a nutritionist who may not be culturally relevant, but now they can communicate with the system For the teams and the people who run healthcare services, it’s going to help them close gaps and be better communicators to effectively cause change [for] the person they’re trying to help.” 

Peter Musimami ( Gumbo ): “Everything is piggybacking on AI. What I want to hopefully see more of is responsibility pushed a bit more and a sense for who is not being included in those conversations and [in] the models that are being developed.”

• Peter also urged for more support for founders who are ideating in the AI space, especially from larger organizations who can share their learnings, including what’s not worked for them, so that startups can look to these problem areas and know what to immediately be of support in. He believes this is one of the biggest gaps to fill next in the market.

Vitali Karpeichyk ( PigPug Health ): “Neuroscience is the next trend in the health space, and I strongly believe that neurodevices are going to be the next big thing in wearables. This means we could read the same information from the neurodevices [such as] pulse, cardio, oxygen, EEG … We can stream this bioinformation to the powerful AI, and in alignment with seasonal patterns, this can provide some tips and tricks during the day [like] how to behave, [and] how to be a healthier and [more] active person throughout the whole lifetime. This is the age of AI, and we have to be careful, but at the same time, we have to trust the power of [the technology]—and I think it will be mutually beneficial.”

Isis Ashford-Swain ( Greens Health ): “Healthcare at home. As transportation continues to be a huge issue, I don’t think everyone is going to have the same amount of access to get to a hospital or get to a clinic, so the next evolution of healthcare is how do we bring those same providers via Zoom into the home or actually show up in-person [to the home] to service the patient in need?”

• Isis also mentioned an intersection between the flourishing “food as medicine” sector and the idea of community, where she believes farmers markets and similar spaces will become huge cornerstones, particularly in their appeal of providing local access to naturally grown foods to improve health, and allowing consumers to have face-to-face conversations and feedback exchanges with the people who source their foods.

Kenneth Watson, Jr., JD ( HealthLink360.ai ): “As we look at the health industry, it’s really going to be a lot of personalization—and personalization that looks at culture, that looks at environment, that looks at zip codes, [and] all of these different nuances. How can we create precision care for each individual?

• Kenneth also stressed the continued importance of partnerships, which he especially gleaned from learning from and working with each of the fellows in his Halcyon cohort.