By creating a process to analyze health records and then alert providers to high-risk abnormalities, the Healthy Person Program enables early intervention and continuous patient monitoring, and to-date has identified over 108,000 high-risk abnormalities and improved early-stage cancer diagnoses by 36%.
In this third blog of the 2025 ACCC Innovator Award series, Bart Daugherty from Lifepoint Health shares more about his program's initiative to improve the quality of preventive care for patients in rural communities.
In this episode, CANCER BUZZ speaks with Bart Daugherty, vice president of clinical technology and systems at Georgetown Cancer Center, Lifepoint Health, about his program’s receipt of a 2025 ACCC Innovator Award. Lifepoint’s innovation, Transforming Cancer Detection and Treatment with the AI-Driven Healthy Person Program, leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze the health records of all patients who have received care at Lifepoint Health’s facilities and identify those who are at risk of developing catastrophic diseases. This initiative, dubbed the Healthy Person Program, has already impacted over 280,000 patients since the deployment of Lifepoint’s AI tool and made significant strides in improving population health in its communities.
