News

Newsweek's AI Impact Awards measure what AI actually delivers. For the second year running, Bunkerhill Health is a winner.

In this Fierce Healthcare piece, Heather Landi tells the story of how Bunkerhill Health is removing the regulatory, clinical, and engineering barriers that slow AI adoption.

The new pathway provides a reimbursement framework for AI-based detection and quantification of coronary and aortic valve calcium on routinely acquired chest CT scans, including both contrast-enhanced and non-contrast studies.

Fast Company recognized Bunkerhill for redefining how health systems adopt AI, replacing predefined tools with a flexible platform for building agentic workflows.

The report shows how UTMB Health is turning clinical and operational ideas into live AI workflows that reason across health system data and take action inside core systems.

In partnership with Bunkerhill Health, McLaren Health Care has launched a first-of-its-kind AI-powered cardiovascular screening program in Michigan using the Carebricks platform.

UTMB Health has brought clinician-led agentic AI into enterprise practice with 15+ live Carebricks workflows and dozens more in development across the health system.

Bunkerhill Health was named a winner in Inc.’s 2025 Best in Business Awards for Best AI Implementation, recognizing the impact Carebricks is delivering across top health systems nationwide.

Bunkerhill Health has received FDA clearance for Bunkerhill MAC, the first artificial intelligence algorithm to detect and quantify mitral annular calcification (MAC). Running on routine chest CT scans, the algorithm addresses a clinically important but often overlooked finding, and is available today within the Carebricks platform.

Bunkerhill was named a Finalist for Carebricks, the AI platform that turns complex patient data into real-world action. From identifying treatment candidates to coordinating follow-up, Carebricks enables health systems to deliver better care at scale.

Bunkerhill CEO and co-founder Nishith Khandwala was recognized on the inaugural Mayfield | Divot AI List, which highlights emerging leaders shaping the future of AI. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges from academia, technology, and venture, Nish joins a group of innovators driving the next wave of AI breakthroughs.

Millions of patients live with undiagnosed reduced ejection fraction, a key marker associated with heart failure. With ECG-EF FDA-cleared and available in Carebricks, health systems can now screen using one of medicine’s most common tests: the ECG.

Nish joins Bill Russell to discuss why so many AI algorithms stall before reaching clinical practice, how health systems are operationalizing Carebricks to accelerate adoption, and the real-world impact at partners where automated workflows are driving faster care.

Recognition in the AI in Patient Care category highlights Carebricks’ ability to help health systems build and automate workflows that improve outcomes, streamline operations, and close care gaps.

Carebricks’ new context control feature puts you in charge of the data behind every AI-powered answer, focusing analysis on the most relevant sources to boost accuracy, speed, and trust.

Carebricks Chat brings conversational AI to the full patient record, giving clinicians a faster way to access context-rich answers grounded in EHR data, imaging, labs, and notes—enhanced by clinical guidelines and research. Now available to any health system, Chat expands the power of Carebricks by helping care teams find what matters, faster.

By incorporating structured lab signals, Carebricks sharpens its ability to identify risk, automate the right next steps, and support smarter decisions across every care workflow.

Stanford Radiology highlights a newly FDA-cleared AI algorithm developed to detect abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) from routine CT scans. Validated on data from Bunkerhill Health’s consortium, the Abdominal Aortic Quantification (AAQ) algorithm received FDA clearance through Bunkerhill and is now in the Carebricks platform, where it identifies at-risk patients and enables early, life-saving intervention without additional imaging.

With full access to unstructured encounter notes, Carebricks builds a more complete view of each patient, enabling earlier interventions, smarter follow-up, and better outcomes with less manual effort.

Bunkerhill AAQ automatically sizes the abdominal aorta on both contrast and non-contrast CT exams, turning everyday imaging into a safety net for silent aneurysms and triggering seamless, Carebricks-powered follow-up—no extra scanning, radiation, or disruption to existing radiologist workflow.

Newsweek spotlights Bunkerhill Health as one of seven global winners of its AI Impact Awards in healthcare, highlighting how Carebricks stands out from the AI hype cycle by delivering measurable outcomes for patients and health systems. Part of Bunkerhill’s generative AI platform for clinical reasoning and action, Carebricks turns data into timely next steps, helping ensure every patient receives proactive, equitable care without extra burden on care teams.

Newsweek has named Bunkerhill Health one of just five healthcare companies around the world to receive an inaugural AI Impact Award, recognizing Carebricks for delivering measurable outcomes and advancing health equity at scale. Part of Bunkerhill’s generative AI platform for clinical reasoning and action, Carebricks helps health systems surface overlooked risks, close costly care gaps, and ensure every patient gets timely, appropriate care without adding workload for clinical teams.

UTMB Health is partnering with Bunkerhill to bring Carebricks, Bunkerhill’s clinical reasoning platform, into everyday practice across its health system. Building on success with Bunkerhill’s coronary artery calcium detection algorithm, UTMB is now using Carebricks to continuously monitor patients, uncover overlooked risks and opportunities, and coordinate next steps—helping ensure every patient receives timely, appropriate care without added burden on clinical teams.

Stanford Radiology spotlights a newly FDA-cleared AI algorithm developed and validated by Stanford researchers within the Bunkerhill consortium to opportunistically detect low bone mineral density (BMD) from routine abdominal CT scans. Now available in Bunkerhill’s Carebricks platform, the tool helps identify patients at risk of osteoporosis and osteopenia—enabling earlier intervention without additional scans or workflow changes.

Part of Bunkerhill’s Carebricks platform, Bunkerhill BMD helps care teams identify and navigate follow-up for patients at risk of osteoporosis—using scans already in the system, with no added radiation or workflow disruption.

Bunkerhill Health and Cleerly are joining forces to expand access to AI-powered cardiovascular diagnostics, enabling earlier detection and personalized treatment of coronary artery disease. By integrating their FDA-cleared technologies, the partnership helps health systems identify at-risk patients and streamline care coordination for improved outcomes.

Bunkerhill Health announces the launch of Carebricks, an AI-powered platform that identifies clinically significant findings in medical images and reports, prioritizes follow-up needs, and automates care coordination. By integrating with electronic health records (EHRs), Carebricks ensures timely intervention for at-risk patients while reducing manual workload for care teams.

Meet Doug - a vegetable breeder from Gilroy, CA, whose severe coronary artery calcification went unreported for years before he received the care he needed. Through use of our early detection algorithms like Bunkerhill iCAC and Bunkerhill AVC, we aim to ensure that patients like Doug don't slip through the cracks.

Bunkerhill expands its health-system-wide solutions by providing cardiovascular care teams with AI-powered detection and quantification of aortic valve calcification on Non-Cardiac Chest CT to enable early disease detection.

Bunkerhill Health is thrilled to welcome FIDI to our consortium as a key collaborator in developing our foundation model—a next-generation AI platform that will power future innovations across various specialties. This foundation model will serve as the bedrock for Bunkerhill Health’s clinical AI tools, enabling rapid iteration, fine-tuning, and new solutions without the need for constant retraining.

Stamford Health has become the first healthcare system in Connecticut to use Bunkerhill Health’s AI algorithm for early detection of coronary artery disease. This tool automatically analyzes CT scans to identify potential heart disease, making it easier for patients to get timely and cost-effective care. Read the full press release to learn how this partnership is transforming cardiovascular screening.

We're proud to partner with the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute as they bring Bunkerhill Health’s AI-powered iCAC algorithm to West Virginia, enhancing cardiovascular care through early detection and personalized follow-up. WVU patients now benefit from automatic CAC scoring during routine CT scans, helping clinicians intervene sooner and make care more proactive. Read the full press release to learn more about this important step in heart health.