The Technology Licensing Office’s bi-weekly market research report highlights emerging trends, market signals, and industry developments that may inform research and commercialization strategy across the University of Utah. Each edition curates timely insights from key sectors to help faculty, researchers, and innovation partners identify opportunities, anticipate market needs, and align discoveries with real-world demand.

Emerging Market Insights

Remote Patient Monitoring Evolves Toward AI-Driven Triage, Escalation, and Chronic Care Management

Remote patient monitoring is evolving from device-based data collection into AI-enabled triage and care coordination as providers face alert fatigue, staffing constraints, and mixed readmission outcomes. AI models can prioritize alerts, synthesize patient context, detect deterioration, and support personalized escalation. Faculty can align with this shift by validating AI triage accuracy, modeling false-positive burden, integrating RPM outputs into EHR workflows, and designing condition-specific protocols for older, rural, and high-risk patients.

Physical AI foundation models are accelerating real-world robotics

Physical AI is moving robots from rigid, pre-programmed automation toward foundation-model-driven systems that perceive, simulate, and act across changing environments. Recent models combine vision-language-action control, world simulation, synthetic data, and cross-embodiment learning to reduce costly task-specific programming in warehouses, factories, labs, and care settings. Faculty can advance deployable systems by building safety benchmarks, synthetic-data pipelines, manipulation datasets, sim-to-real validation methods, and human-robot workflow studies.

See also: How Physical World AI Could Reshape our Economy

Upcoming Webinars

California Telehealth Resource Center’s Annual Digital Health Summit – Wednesday, June 24, 2026

For healthcare faculty, clinicians, and digital health leaders, this free summit looks to cover AI-enabled care delivery, remote monitoring, workflow integration, access gaps, chronic disease management, and governance.

The Robot Report’s Editorial Webinar Series: Physical AI and Robotics – Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Part of an ongoing robotics series with several on demand options, this webinar is for robotics developers, systems integrators, end users, and researchers on how physical AI, foundation models, sensor fusion, and real-time learning enable adaptable robots in unstructured environments.

Tools & Resources

Access additional market information through powerful tools available from the J. Willard Marriott Library:

Markets and Markets – Comprehensive market reports, with competitive intelligence and trends

BCC Research – Detailed market forecasting and industry analysis

Factiva – Global news and business information

Pitchbook – Private market and investment data

Researchers can contact the Technology Licensing Office (TLO), Eccles Health Science Library, J. Willard Marriott Library, or Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) for tailored market information.

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