Prescriptive AI in critical care: Anil Kumar Madugulla’s vision at LHIF 2025

At LHIF 2025, Anil Kumar Madugulla, Senior Director at Baxter, shared powerful insights into the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in critical care and surgical innovation. He began by describing the current moment as a pivotal phase for AI, marked by two evolving stages, one rooted in arts and humanities and the other in science and precision. According to him, the convergence of these two realms is what enables technology to truly save lives. 

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Highlighting Baxter's contributions across fields like cardiology, respiratory care, vision and surgical technology, he spoke about the company’s advancement in using camera-equipped operating rooms to document surgeries for further learning and accuracy. He stressed that at the intersection of all medical departments, AI is not just helpful, it is essential. 

Madugulla emphasized the need to move beyond language models to reasoning models, advocating for the rise of “Prescriptive AI” which focuses on actionable insights over “Generative AI”, which merely creates content. 

Addressing the limitations of human attention in patient care, he underlined how AI can offer continuous monitoring, improving outcomes in critical settings. He also highlighted the need to shift from generalized treatments to highly-specific patient-centered care, which AI can enable through deeper data analysis and precision diagnostics.

His address called for a future where AI becomes a true clinical partner, enhancing both decision-making and life-saving care.