Carenet Health to Spotlight AI Innovation and Launch “Powering Change” Movement at HLTH 2025
Carenet Health, a tech-enabled healthcare engagement and clinical services partner, has announced its champion sponsorship of the AI Pavilion at HLTH 2025, the leading conference for healthcare transformation. Alongside this sponsorship, Carenet will officially debut Powering Change, a bold campaign and industry-wide call to action designed to confront the hidden costs of healthcare and reimagine how the system works, connects, and cares for people.
The move underscores Carenet’s mission to address one of the most pressing realities in healthcare today: the system is expensive, fragmented, and too often fails to meet the needs of patients and providers alike. By leveraging the HLTH 2025 platform—a gathering point for healthcare leaders, innovators, and change agents—Carenet aims to spark a movement that transcends incremental adjustments and calls for systemic, orchestrated transformation.
A System Under Strain
The U.S. healthcare system continues to be challenged by unsustainable costs and inefficiencies. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), national health spending is projected to reach $7.2 trillion by 2031, consuming nearly one-fifth of the U.S. economy. Patients, employers, payers, and providers all feel the weight of this financial burden. But as Carenet CEO John Erwin points out, the real costs go far beyond dollars and cents.
“Healthcare costs too much. Not just in dollars, but in burnout, missed opportunities, and broken experiences,” Erwin said. “It’s time to stop tolerating a system that’s failing and start building one that’s better—for the people who rely on it and the people who run it.”
For providers, burnout rates have reached historic highs, driven by administrative burdens, staff shortages, and the relentless demands of patient care. For patients, access barriers, poor communication, and fragmented systems often lead to delayed treatment, unnecessary complications, and diminished trust in the healthcare system. Employers face escalating benefit costs while insurers grapple with inefficiencies and growing consumer dissatisfaction.
Carenet argues that the status quo is not only unsustainable—it’s unacceptable. The Powering Change movement seeks to mobilize healthcare leaders around this urgency and push for coordinated, AI-enabled strategies that can remove friction, improve human experiences, and restore value across the system.
Launching “Powering Change” at HLTH 2025
HLTH has become the premier stage for unveiling new ideas and shaping the future of healthcare. The 2025 event, set to draw thousands of executives, investors, policymakers, and innovators, offers Carenet the ideal environment to bring its Declaration to life.
Through its sponsorship of the AI Pavilion, Carenet will create an immersive experience showcasing the human and business case for change. The company plans to demonstrate how intelligent orchestration—the integration of AI, technology-enabled services, and human expertise—can tackle hidden costs while reintroducing humanity into healthcare interactions.
“Incremental improvements are not enough,” Erwin emphasized. “Healthcare needs orchestrators—leaders willing to connect the dots, align the stakeholders, and design systems that serve people first. HLTH is the perfect setting to challenge the industry to move beyond adapting to change and instead start orchestrating it.”
Carenet’s Powering Change experience will highlight:
- The True Costs of Healthcare: Beyond financial waste, the campaign addresses burnout among clinicians, missed opportunities for preventive care, and patient experiences that undermine trust.
- The Promise of Orchestration: Demonstrations of how AI and human services can work in harmony to reduce administrative burdens, streamline patient engagement, and empower providers.
- A Call to Action: Encouraging HLTH attendees to join the movement and commit to leading transformation within their own organizations.
The Role of Orchestrated AI
AI has become one of the most powerful forces in healthcare innovation, but Carenet emphasizes that its true potential lies in orchestration. Rather than replacing human effort, AI should enhance it—helping clinicians and staff focus on what only humans can do best: delivering empathetic, personal care.
At HLTH 2025, Carenet will host two featured speaking engagements exploring this theme:
- Helping Humans Be More Human with AI – A discussion on how AI can reduce administrative drag, minimize clinician burnout, and free healthcare professionals to engage more meaningfully with patients.
- The Power of Orchestration in Healthcare Transformation – An exploration of real-world strategies for combining AI, digital tools, and human services to improve outcomes at scale.
These conversations are designed to move beyond abstract discussions of AI to focus on its practical, human-centered applications. Carenet leaders will argue that healthcare’s digital transformation cannot succeed if technology is deployed in isolation. Instead, AI must be orchestrated alongside workflows, staff expertise, and patient engagement strategies to create seamless, sustainable impact.
Booth 4360: A Hub for Transformation
HLTH 2025 attendees will have the opportunity to engage directly with Carenet executives at Booth 4360. The company plans to showcase real-world applications of intelligent orchestration, demonstrating how AI-enabled engagement services can help organizations reduce costs, improve access, and enhance patient satisfaction.
Visitors will also be invited to sign onto the Powering Change Declaration, a public commitment to rethinking healthcare’s future. By joining the movement, participants align with Carenet’s vision of a healthcare system that works better for patients, providers, and the businesses that sustain it.
Building on a Bold Declaration
The launch of Powering Change builds on Carenet’s previously released declaration, The Costs of Healthcare Are Too Great to Ignore. In that document, Carenet outlined its perspective on the systemic failures that drive inefficiencies and inequities in healthcare, while also presenting a blueprint for change.
The declaration highlights:
- The financial burden of waste and inefficiency in healthcare delivery.
- The human toll of clinician burnout, patient frustration, and missed opportunities for proactive care.
- The need for orchestration—integrating AI, digital tools, and tech-enabled human services into a unified strategy for transformation.
By elevating this declaration into a campaign and movement, Carenet hopes to expand its reach and catalyze action across the healthcare ecosystem.
Why Carenet Is Taking a Stand
For Carenet, this initiative is not just about branding—it’s about leadership. The company has long positioned itself at the intersection of technology and human engagement, offering services that help payers, providers, and life sciences organizations better connect with patients. By sponsoring the AI Pavilion and launching Powering Change, Carenet is signaling its commitment to shaping the industry conversation on AI, orchestration, and systemic reform.
“We see the hidden costs every day,” Erwin said. “Patients who give up on the system because it’s too complicated. Clinicians who leave the profession because they’re exhausted. Employers who are forced to make hard trade-offs in benefits. This is not sustainable, and it’s not acceptable. We believe we can power change—but it will take all of us, working together.”
