UpSurge Baltimore and Greater Baltimore Committee host Inflection Point Healthcare Summit. Baltimore poised to lead AI healthcare revolution. Jun 04, 2026. Suchi Saria (left), CEO of Bayesian Health, whose AI-powered tool to detect sepsis earned FDA approval (Courtesy Johns Hopkins University) By Katie Turner Healthcare is entering a new era in which AI-enabled technologies are moving from promise to practice, helping clinicians detect risk earlier, support faster decision-making, and improve patient outcomes. A recent Johns Hopkins breakthrough illustrates why Maryland sits at the center of this transformation: Bayesian Health's FDA-cleared AI system now detects sepsis up to 48 hours earlier than traditional methods, reducing mortality by 18% across dozens of U.S. hospitals - and it was built here, by Johns Hopkins scholar and Bayesian Health CEO Suchi Saria. The accomplishment underscores Maryland's power as home to the research, clinical, and innovation assets needed to test, refine, and scale technologies that can save lives. That advantage is amplified by Maryland's broader healthcare ecosystem. Anchored by world-class academic medical centers, a strong payer-provider infrastructure, and a long track record of healthcare policy leadership, the state offers a uniquely strong environment for turning emerging technologies into real-world clinical and economic value. As Maryland convenes leaders for the Inflection Point Healthcare Summit, the message is clear: the region is not just participating in the future of healthcare innovation - it is helping define it. "Healthcare is adopting AI nearly three times faster than other industries," says Nick Culbertson, who runs the AI Health accelerator, a local program backed by Techstars, Johns Hopkins Medicine, University of Maryland Medical System, MedStar Health, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, and University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB). The accelerator has invested in 25 AI-focused health companies and counting. "It's not replacing jobs," Culbertson says. "It's doing more with less. And that's exactly what healthcare needs." As Culbertson, a former Johns Hopkins medical student and exited founder of an AI-powered fraud detection company, explains, the urgency behind healthcare's AI adoption isn't primarily about cutting costs as in other industries. It's a response to a supply crisis that money alone cannot fix. "The only thing we've ever been able to do to treat more patients is hire more people," Culbertson explains. "We don't have enough physicians. We don't have enough nurses. We don't have enough schools to build the workforce we'd need. So right now, that means not everyone gets treated." AI, in his view, is the only lever available that meaningfully expands capacity without requiring a decade of medical training. When a physician spends less time on documentation, coding, and administrative overhead, that's another patient who gets seen. It's appointments that don't get pushed three months out, and access to preventative care that prevents emergency room visits. It means healthcare providers can spend more time providing healthcare. According to research from Menlo Ventures, healthcare organizations are now deploying AI at more than twice the rate of the broader economy. The share of health systems running domain-specific AI tools jumped sevenfold in a single year. Healthcare AI investment nearly tripled in 2025, surpassing the entire vertical AI market across all industries just one year prior. The applications already in use are not glamorous but are making an outsized impact. AI tools are now handling clinical documentation, billing and coding, prior authorizations, and patient scheduling at scale, freeing clinical staff to focus on the work that actually requires a human. One in four Americans now asks AI a health question at least once a week. The infrastructure to make that interaction safe, personalized, and connected to real medical records is being built right now - and Maryland has a unique advantage that positions the state to lead this innovation. "Maryland is the largest value-based care experiment in the country," says Chris Brandt, who spent 17 years building and scaling a Baltimore-born health technology company before turning to lead Upsurge, the innovation affiliate of the Greater Baltimore Committee. Under the state's unique all-payer model - the only one of its kind in the United States - every insurer reimburses hospitals at the same rate. The competitive dynamic that drives up costs and fragments incentives in other states is dampened here, allowing for a shared focus on outcomes per dollar: better population health, delivered more efficiently, with technology as a key part of the equation. That alignment has made Maryland an unusually productive testing ground for AI in healthcare. When Culbertson's fraud detection company launched at Hopkins, the Maryland Health Exchange became an early customer. From there, word traveled fast through the country's interconnected health systems. "They all go to the same roundtables," Culbertson says. "They all talked about what our product was doing, and everyone wanted in." From Hopkins, his company expanded to Yale, Duke, Penn, Stanford, Cleveland Clinic. The path out of Baltimore to national scale is well-worn. Add to that Johns Hopkins University's new Data Science and AI Institute (DSAI). This institute alone will recruit 110 new faculty researchers along with more than 30 software engineers and scientific staffers, and it will train hundreds of students each year, providing an academic anchor unparalleled in size to a growing local ecosystem. It is, by any measure, a serious institutional investment in this region's role in the future of AI - in health care and beyond - and in the role of AI in the future of this region. Maryland's leaders understand that the convergence of research, healthcare, and entrepreneurship around emerging technologies carries both promise and risk - and that getting it right will require intentional collaboration rather than improvisation. That is the driving idea behind The Inflection Point Healthcare Summit, June 4th in Baltimore. Organized by Upsurge Baltimore and the Greater Baltimore Committee, the summit broughtfounders, health system CEOs, investors, academic researchers, and policymakers into the same room around a shared challenge: ensuring that rapidly evolving technologies are developed and deployed safely, equitably, and effectively. The summit curated a diverse mix of stakeholders, including representatives from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the federal center driving the national shift toward value-based care. University of Maryland Medical System's President and CEO, Mohan Suntha, gave the keynote. Kristen Valdes, CEO of b.well Connected Health, a Maryland-born company that has struck major AI partnerships with both OpenAI and Google to give patients secure access to their own medical records, also took the stage. Brandt wants this event to become a fixture on the national calendar for healthcare AI, the kind of annual gathering that shapes where investment flows and where policy gets made. And if Baltimore gets this right, the results could be significant healthcare wins within the next five years. "Quality life expectancy. Infant mortality. Maternal morbidity," Brandt says, ticking through the public health metrics that matter most. "If those are moving, and we're closer to par with the rest of the country on cost, then we've had success." "It feels like a very good, unique inflection point," Brandt says. "Maryland has a right to win in this space." I95 Content Marketing

Greater Baltimore Committee launches State of the Region. March 23, 2026 Third year of Regional Investment Scorecard and SelectUSA engagement highlights Baltimore Region's economic momentum The Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC) will debut its inaugural State of the Region event on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, alongside Invest in the Baltimore Region, an invitation-only engagement on Thursday, May 7, 2026: launching two events during Economic Development Week and the SelectUSA Investment Summit that highlight Baltimore Region investment trends, industry growth and emerging economic opportunities. The events mark the third year GBC has organized regional programming around the release of the Baltimore Region's Investment Scorecard and engagement with the U.S. Department of Commerce's SelectUSA Investment Summit, helping bring greater visibility to the region's economic progress and connect with companies and investors exploring opportunities in the market. State of the Region represents the next evolution of GBC's Pulse Check: The Scorecard Summit, expanding the role of the Regional Investment Scorecard in sharing the Baltimore Region's economic story. The program will feature the release of the third annual Regional Investment Scorecard, offering a data-driven look at where capital is flowing across the region and which industries are gaining momentum. Key insights highlighted in the Scorecard include: * Capital investment trends across the Baltimore Region * Industry growth and expansion activity across major sectors * Innovation and startup ecosystem developments, including insights from: * UpSurge Baltimore's 2026 Tech Ecosystem Report * Major infrastructure and development projects shaping the region's economic landscape The program will also highlight major investments strengthening the Baltimore Region's role as a national gateway for supply chain and advanced industry, including port and logistics infrastructure developments anchored by Tradepoint Atlantic. Building on those insights, the event will feature a forward-looking discussion informed by new analytical work, including insights from McKinsey & Company, examining how the region's industrial strengths align with federal priorities and emerging opportunities across infrastructure, manufacturing and innovation-driven sectors. "Over the past several years, we've made a deliberate effort to tell the Baltimore Region's economic story more clearly and more consistently," said Mark Anthony Thomas, president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee. "The Investment Scorecard helps show where capital is flowing, where industries are growing and where new opportunities are emerging. Pairing that data with engagement around SelectUSA allows us to share that story directly with companies and investors exploring their next move." The May 6 convening is timed to coincide with the SelectUSA Investment Summit, taking place May 3-6 at National Harbor, enabling national and international investors visiting Maryland to engage directly with Baltimore Region leaders. On Thursday, May 7, GBC will host Invest in the Baltimore Region, its third annual SelectUSA spinoff event, at GBC headquarters. This invitation-only convening will bring together international business leaders participating in SelectUSA with regional executives and economic development partners across key growth industries, including: * Life sciences and biotechnology * Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity * Advanced manufacturing * Supply chain and logistics Together, the two-day engagement highlights the Baltimore Region's economic strengths, including: * Leading biotechnology and healthcare cluster * A logistics and supply chain gateway anchored by the Port of Baltimore and Tradepoint Atlantic * A growing innovation ecosystem supporting hundreds of startups and emerging technology companies The inaugural State of the Region will take place May 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Top of the World Observation Level in Baltimore. Attendance is limited to approximately 150 invited leaders across business, finance, healthcare, real estate, technology and economic development. Invest in the Baltimore Region will take place May 7 at GBC headquarters and is by invitation or approved application only. Additional information is available at gbc.org. ABOUT THE GREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE The Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC) is the leading voice for the private sector in the Baltimore region, providing insightful economic and civic leadership to drive collective impact. Comprising more than 300 organizations - including businesses, nonprofits, foundations, and healthcare and educational institutions - the GBC is dedicated to fostering the prosperity of the Greater Baltimore region. For more information, visit gbc.org.