Best Healthcare & Science Tools in 2026

AlphaFold, developed by DeepMind (Google), is an AI system that predicts the three-dimensional structure of proteins from their amino acid sequence with revolutionary accuracy. In 2020, AlphaFold 2 achieved protein structure prediction accuracy that rivals experimental methods, solving a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology. AlphaFold has since predicted the structures of over 200 million proteins—essentially all known proteins—and made these structures freely available through the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database. This has had a profound impact on drug discovery, vaccine development, enzyme engineering, and fundamental biological research worldwide.

Be My Eyes is a mobile app that connects blind and low-vision users with sighted volunteers for live video assistance, now enhanced with Be My AI—a GPT-4 Vision powered tool that instantly describes images, reads documents, identifies products, and provides detailed visual context without waiting for a volunteer. The AI feature can describe complex scenes, read handwritten text, identify objects in a refrigerator, navigate unfamiliar environments, and provide fashion advice—all through the phone camera in real time. Be My Eyes' AI has transformed the app from a volunteer-dependent service to an always-available AI assistant for the visually impaired community worldwide.

Seeing AI is a free Microsoft app for iOS and Android that uses AI to narrate the visual world for people who are blind or have low vision, offering multiple channels for different tasks including reading short text instantly, reading documents with layout preservation, describing scenes and people, identifying products by barcode, recognizing currency, and reading handwriting. Its People channel can recognize and remember individuals' faces, announcing them by name when they appear in camera view—enabling more independent social interactions. Seeing AI was developed in partnership with the blind community and is continually updated with new AI capabilities from Microsoft's computer vision research.

Abridge uses AI to summarize medical conversations into structured clinical notes in real time. It integrates with Epic EHR and is deployed at major health systems to reduce physician documentation time by up to 70%.

Voice Dream Reader is a highly customizable text-to-speech reading app for iOS and Android that converts documents, web pages, ebooks, PDFs, and text from any source into spoken audio using high-quality neural TTS voices. Designed for users with dyslexia, visual impairments, ADHD, and other learning differences, Voice Dream Reader offers extensive customization of voice speed, pitch, word spacing, and text highlighting to optimize the reading experience for individual needs. Its integration with Bookshare, Learning Ally, and NLS talking books provides access to a large library of accessible content for users with print disabilities.

Paige AI provides FDA-cleared artificial intelligence solutions for cancer diagnosis in digital pathology. Paige Prostate detects prostate cancer with higher accuracy than pathologists alone, and Paige Breast extends the same capability to breast cancer.

Oura is an AI-powered smart ring that tracks sleep stages, heart rate variability, body temperature trends, activity, and readiness through advanced sensors embedded in a discreet ring form factor, providing daily sleep, activity, and readiness scores with personalized AI insights. Its AI learns individual health baselines and detects deviations that may indicate illness, overtraining, or poor recovery—with studies showing Oura's temperature tracking has predictive value for COVID-19 and other illness detection. The Oura AI Assistant delivers personalized health coaching based on trends in the user's biometric data, while the app's research partnerships have contributed to published studies on sleep and health monitoring.

Viz.ai uses deep learning to analyze medical images and alert care teams to time-sensitive conditions like stroke, PE, and aortic dissection. Reduces time-to-treatment and coordinates multi-disciplinary care teams.

Viz.ai uses AI to analyze CT scans and alert stroke care teams within minutes of potential stroke detection. Its care coordination platform reduces door-to-treatment times and improves outcomes in emergency neurology.

Paige AI offers FDA-cleared AI algorithms for pathology including Paige Prostate, which detects cancer in prostate biopsies with greater accuracy than pathologists alone. Used in major cancer centers worldwide.

Nuance DAX (Dragon Ambient eXperience) by Microsoft automatically documents patient encounters by listening to doctor-patient conversations and generating structured clinical notes in the physician's preferred format — integrating directly with Epic and other EHRs.

PathAI develops AI-powered pathology tools to help pathologists make faster and more accurate diagnoses. Used in clinical trials, drug discovery, and diagnostic workflows for cancer detection.

Ambience Healthcare is an AI ambient documentation platform that listens to patient-physician conversations and automatically generates clinical notes, referral letters, and after-visit summaries in the physician's preferred style.

Aira is an on-demand visual interpreter service that connects blind and low-vision users with trained sighted agents through a smartphone or smart glasses camera in real time, enabling them to navigate airports, read menus, interpret complex visuals, and handle tasks that automated AI still struggles with. Its Explorer app pairs on-demand human agents with AI-generated visual context, giving agents an enhanced view of what the user is seeing through computer vision annotations. Aira partners with hundreds of businesses, universities, and transit systems to offer free Aira access to customers and employees as an accessibility service.

Corti is a real-time AI assistant for emergency medical dispatch and clinical decision support that listens to emergency calls and provides dispatchers with AI-powered guidance to improve patient outcomes. Its algorithms can detect life-threatening conditions like cardiac arrest, stroke, and sepsis from spoken descriptions, prompting dispatchers to ask the right follow-up questions and initiate correct protocols faster. Corti also provides ambient documentation for dispatch calls and clinical encounters. It is deployed in emergency dispatch centers across Scandinavia, the US, and Europe, where it has been shown to improve cardiac arrest detection rates by over 50% compared to unassisted dispatchers.

Abridge generates structured clinical notes from doctor-patient conversations in real time, integrated directly into Epic EHR. Partnered with UPMC and major health systems, it reduces documentation burden by generating accurate SOAP notes from audio.

Viz.ai analyzes medical images in real time to detect time-sensitive conditions like strokes, pulmonary embolisms, and aortic dissections. Its AI notifies the appropriate specialist within minutes of image acquisition, dramatically reducing treatment time.

Tempus uses AI to analyze clinical and molecular data to help physicians make better treatment decisions. Focuses on oncology, cardiology, and neuropsychiatry with genomic sequencing.

WHOOP is an AI-powered wearable health and fitness platform that continuously monitors heart rate variability, sleep stages, respiratory rate, and skin temperature to provide personalized daily recovery scores, strain recommendations, and sleep coaching for athletes and health-conscious individuals. Its AI analyzes biometric patterns specific to each user to predict optimal performance windows, flag overtraining risk, and recommend sleep duration targets—without any manual logging required. WHOOP Coach, its generative AI assistant, answers health and performance questions using the user's own biometric history for personalized, evidence-grounded guidance.

Epic's AI platform embeds generative AI and predictive models throughout its EHR system used by over 78% of US patients. Features include ambient note documentation, AI-drafted messages, predictive deterioration alerts, and smart scheduling.

Nabla Copilot is an AI medical scribe that automatically transcribes and structures clinical notes from doctor-patient conversations. It integrates with major EHR systems and is used by thousands of physicians to reduce documentation time by 2+ hours daily.

BioRender is a web-based platform for creating professional scientific figures and illustrations. With AI-enhanced features and a library of 30,000+ icons, it helps researchers and scientists create publication-quality visuals without design skills.

NaviLens is an AI-powered accessibility technology that uses a specialized optical code (the NaviLens Code) that can be read by smartphones from up to 12 meters away, enabling blind and low-vision users to get instant location and navigation information in public spaces like transit stations, airports, and campuses. Unlike traditional QR codes that require precise alignment, NaviLens codes are detectable at wide angles and distances, and the app announces contextual information—platform numbers, gate directions, food labels—as users move through space. NaviLens is deployed across Barcelona Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Kellogg's packaging, and hundreds of other real-world installations.

Future is an AI-assisted personal training platform that pairs each user with a real, credentialed human fitness coach who builds personalized workout programs, delivers daily workout guidance through the app, monitors completion data from Apple Watch, and provides real-time feedback and weekly check-ins. The AI layer analyzes workout completion data, biometric trends from wearables, and program adherence patterns to help coaches make better programming decisions and flag clients who may need proactive outreach. Future occupies a premium position between fully automated fitness apps and in-person personal training, delivering human coach expertise at a more accessible price point through AI-powered operational efficiency.

Tempus AI applies artificial intelligence to vast amounts of molecular and clinical data to personalize cancer treatment. Its platform helps oncologists identify the best therapy options based on a patient's genomic profile and similar patient outcomes.

Insilico Medicine uses generative AI for drug discovery, having developed AI-designed drugs that have reached clinical trials. Its Pharma.AI platform covers target identification, molecule generation, and clinical trial design.

Flatiron Health (a Roche company) provides an AI-powered oncology platform that aggregates real-world patient data for cancer research and clinical operations. Used by academic medical centers and oncology practices to improve cancer care delivery.

Suki is an AI-powered voice assistant that helps physicians complete clinical notes faster. Dictate or use ambient mode — Suki automatically structures notes and syncs with Epic, Cerner, and other EHR systems.

Suki is an AI-powered clinical documentation tool that listens to patient encounters and automatically generates clinical notes, reducing documentation burden for physicians by 70%.

Zebra Medical Vision provides FDA-cleared AI algorithms for radiology that automatically analyze medical images to detect conditions including breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, and bone density abnormalities — helping radiologists prioritize critical findings.

Notable Health is an AI-powered healthcare automation platform that streamlines clinical workflows and reduces administrative burden for health systems and medical practices. Its AI digital workers autonomously handle tasks like patient intake, pre-visit documentation, care gap closure, referral management, prior authorizations, and post-visit follow-up—all by reading and writing directly into EHR systems. Notable integrates with Epic, Cerner, and Athenahealth and is deployed across large health systems and multi-specialty practices. By automating repetitive administrative tasks, Notable helps practices increase revenue capture, reduce staff overtime, and improve patient throughput.

Elicit uses AI to help researchers find, summarize, and synthesize academic literature. It's especially useful for systematic reviews in healthcare and life sciences, automating paper screening and data extraction.

Corti is an AI clinical assistant that listens to patient-provider interactions and automatically documents encounters, generates referral letters, and detects critical symptoms in real time. Used by emergency services and primary care clinics across Europe and North America.

Taranis is an AI-powered crop intelligence platform that uses ultra-high resolution aerial imaging—capturing detail at sub-millimeter resolution from aircraft flying at operational speed—combined with computer vision AI to detect pests, diseases, nutrient deficiencies, and stand issues across entire fields at a level of detail impossible with standard drone or satellite imagery. Agronomists and crop scouts use Taranis to prioritize field visits by AI severity scoring, review AI-identified issues with annotated imagery, and document agronomic findings in a mobile platform integrated with farm management systems. The platform enables a single agronomist to effectively monitor tens of thousands of acres that would require many more scouts using traditional methods.

Regard is an AI clinical decision support tool that reads patient charts and surfaces potential diagnoses that clinicians may have missed. Analyzes the entire patient record to identify conditions, reduce diagnostic errors, and improve documentation accuracy.

Gamaya is an AI agricultural intelligence platform that combines hyperspectral aerial imaging with machine learning to provide ultra-precise crop health monitoring, disease early detection, and agronomic analytics for large-scale commodity crops including sugarcane, corn, and soybeans. Its AI models analyze hyperspectral drone and aircraft imagery to detect crop stress, disease pressure, weed infestations, and nutritional deficiencies at resolutions and spectral ranges far beyond standard RGB drone imagery—often identifying problems weeks before they become visible to the naked eye. Agribusinesses and large farming operations across Latin America and Europe use Gamaya to reduce pesticide use, optimize fertilizer applications, and prevent yield losses through proactive agronomic intervention.

Corti uses AI to assist emergency dispatchers and clinicians in real time — detecting early warning signs like cardiac arrest during 911 calls and providing decision support during patient encounters.

Freeletics is an AI-powered fitness coaching app that provides adaptive bodyweight and gym workout programs guided by an AI coach that continuously adjusts training plans based on user performance, feedback, recovery, and goals. The AI analyzes completion times, subjective difficulty ratings, and consistency patterns to progressively adjust workout intensity, volume, and exercise selection—making the program genuinely adaptive rather than simply prescriptive. With over 50 million users globally, Freeletics is particularly popular for its ability to deliver effective, challenging workouts without gym equipment, making it accessible to users in any location or with any schedule.

Nabla Copilot is an ambient AI clinical assistant that automatically generates SOAP notes during patient encounters. Reduces documentation time by 50%+ while improving note quality.

PathAI is an AI-powered pathology platform that assists pathologists in analyzing tissue samples for cancer diagnosis and biomarker identification. Its algorithms improve diagnostic accuracy, reduce variability, and accelerate drug development workflows.

Consensus enables healthcare professionals and researchers to search millions of medical papers and get AI-synthesized answers with citations. It helps find clinical evidence quickly for treatment decisions and medical research.

Sema4.ai is an open-source AI automation framework and enterprise platform for building and deploying AI agents capable of completing complex multi-step business and clinical workflows. While it originated in genomic medicine at Mount Sinai, today Sema4.ai is focused on the enterprise AI agent space, providing tools for building reliable, auditable AI workers that integrate with existing enterprise systems. In healthcare contexts, its agents can automate clinical research workflows, patient data extraction, and regulatory compliance tasks. The open-source Robocorp toolchain is at its core, making it popular with both technical developers and enterprises seeking to deploy agentic automation at scale.

Lumen is a handheld metabolic tracker that measures carbon dioxide concentration in a single breath to determine whether the body is burning primarily carbohydrates or fat for energy—providing daily metabolic flexibility insights that were previously only available in clinical metabolic testing. Its AI analyzes breath measurements, sleep data, activity levels, and nutrition logs to generate daily personalized nutrition recommendations optimized for metabolic health, fat loss, or performance goals. Lumen's AI learns each user's metabolic patterns over time, providing increasingly personalized guidance for nutrition timing, carbohydrate intake, and lifestyle choices that improve metabolic flexibility.

Gainful is a personalized nutrition platform that uses AI and data from an individual health profile quiz to formulate custom protein powders, pre-workout supplements, hydration products, and nutrition plans tailored to each user's specific body composition, fitness goals, dietary restrictions, and activity level. Rather than selling one-size-fits-all supplements, Gainful's AI matches users to personalized formulations and adjusts recommendations as goals and metrics change. Each subscription includes access to a registered dietitian for ongoing nutrition guidance, combining AI personalization with professional nutritional expertise for a comprehensive approach to performance nutrition.

Mendel.ai extracts structured data from unstructured clinical notes using NLP, enabling patient cohort identification, clinical trial matching, and real-world evidence generation at scale.

Meditech Expanse AI is the artificial intelligence suite embedded in Meditech's Expanse EHR platform, providing clinical decision support, predictive analytics, and ambient documentation capabilities for hospitals and health systems running on Meditech. Its AI-powered sepsis prediction algorithm monitors patient vitals and lab values in real time to alert clinicians before clinical deterioration, enabling earlier intervention. The platform also includes AI-assisted documentation tools, nursing workflow optimization, and population health analytics. Meditech Expanse is used by hundreds of community hospitals, critical access hospitals, and academic medical centers primarily in North America.

Glass Health provides AI-powered clinical decision support for physicians. It generates differential diagnoses from patient presentations and creates evidence-based clinical plans, helping doctors make better decisions faster.

Noom is an AI-powered weight management program that combines behavioral psychology, food tracking, and personalized coaching to help users build sustainable healthy habits rather than following rigid diets. Its AI delivers personalized daily lessons based on cognitive behavioral therapy principles, categorizes foods by calorie density rather than elimination, and adapts the program pace and content based on user engagement and progress. Noom's coaching model pairs AI-driven content with human coaches who provide accountability and support, creating a hybrid approach that has been validated in peer-reviewed studies showing meaningful weight loss maintenance at 12 months.

Mendel AI extracts and structures clinical data from unstructured medical records using NLP, enabling healthcare organizations to run cohort queries and research in hours instead of months.