Hinge Health, Oura, & Risant Health Unveil AI and Preventive Health Initiatives at HLTH 2025

HLTH 2025 spotlights AI-driven MSK care, hypertension monitoring, and value-based healthcare innovations.

The eighth annual HLTH conference, underway at the Venetian Expo Center, showcased new healthcare technologies and preventive health initiatives, with a focus on AI-driven solutions and value-based care.

AI-Driven Musculoskeletal Care and 24/7 Support

Hinge Health introduced an AI-powered movement analysis feature for musculoskeletal (MSK) care. The tool employs computer vision technology to track joint angles, symmetry, and endurance, enabling the creation of a “Hinge Score” for joint health.

“Our movement analysis allows the member with pain to have a more objective score of how they're doing, as well as empower the care team, our physical therapists, to better understand how their health is evolving so they get adjustments to the care plan if needed,” Hinge Health CEO Dan Perez said.

Additionally, Hinge Health launched an AI care assistant, Robin, which provides 24/7 support, triages flare-ups, collects patient information, and summarizes it for clinicians to accelerate care. The company also published AI care principles guiding the development of AI across its platform.

Hypertension Detection and Value-Based Care Insights

Oura unveiled efforts to detect early signs of hypertension through its wearable device and announced a blood pressure profile study to inform future algorithms.

“We have a couple hundred thousand people in Oura Labs, which is like our beta part of Oura, and we're going to be looking at that data collection across a couple hundred thousand people to inform our algorithms for predicting hypertension,” Oura CEO Tom Hale said. He added that this will enable assessments across age, gender, ethnicity, and health conditions.

Hale also highlighted that vital sign monitoring expansion aligns with securing health insurance coverage for Oura devices, adding that partnerships with insurers, such as Essence Healthcare, have allowed Medicare Advantage beneficiaries access to the Oura Ring.

Risant Health, formed following Kaiser Permanente’s acquisition of Geisinger Health, shared early results from its value-based care platform. CEO Jaewon Ryu said, “I'm optimistic, because all the leading indicators, which you've heard about today, we're seeing all of those heading in the right direction.” Tools like Risant’s Intelligent Triage reduced unnecessary emergency visits by 21% and cut ED boarding times in half, while self-reported clinician burnout declined by 40%.

HLTH 2025 also addressed broader healthcare challenges. Former CDC director Susan Monarez emphasized leveraging public sector experience in the private sector, while investor Mark Cuban criticized the current pharmaceutical pricing system, calling healthcare leaders “complicit” in perpetuating high costs.

The conference highlighted advances in AI for mental health, primary care, and tech-enabled preventive health. Ami Parekh, Chief Health Officer at Included Health, said, “The challenge in healthcare has never been the ideas. This concept of Advanced Primary Care has been around for years. The issue has been in figuring out how to pay for it, how to deliver it at scale, and how to engage patients in using it. All of these pieces are starting to come together now, and it’s incredibly exciting.”

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