Initiative to raise awareness of Lucem’s AI-powered disease detection via strategic media relations, social media, and targeted content
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 9, 2025 — Amendola, a nationally recognized, award-winning healthcare technology and life sciences public relations and marketing firm, announced Lucem Health has selected Amendola to execute an integrated PR and marketing program to position the company as a leader in AI-powered early disease detection.
Lucem Health, which was started by Mayo Clinic and is based in Raleigh, N.C., offers a portfolio of AI-driven solutions for identifying undiagnosed patients with certain chronic diseases before symptoms emerge using only their EHR records. It has solutions specifically for arrhythmias, colorectal cancer, liver disease, and type 1 diabetes. Amendola is providing a comprehensive PR and marketing program to showcase these revolutionary screenings, which can be done automatically without patient involvement or disruption of providers’ workflows.
“Too often, providers are forced to react to disease after it has progressed,” said Sean Cassidy, CEO and Co‑Founder of Lucem Health. “By helping caregivers proactively identify patients with undiagnosed disease, we enable earlier engagement, more effective interventions, and better outcomes. We partnered with Amendola to help bring this story to market.”
Agency president Jodi Amendola said: “Leveraging AI to identify people at greater risk of serious disease by using clinically trained algorithms to detect patterns in their medical records is surely one of the marvels of modern healthcare technology. We’re excited to help raise awareness of Lucem Health’s solutions through PR, social media, and marketing programs.”
About Lucem Health
Lucem Health helps healthcare providers accelerate disease detection and treatment using practical, responsible AI—so they can improve patients’ lives and increase the clinical and financial yield from today’s scarce care delivery resources. Learn more at www.lucemhealth.com.
About Amendola
Amendola, part of Supreme Group, is an award-winning, insights-driven public relations and marketing firm that integrates media relations, social media, content, and lead gen programs to move healthcare, life sciences/pharma and healthcare IT decision-makers to action. The agency represents some of the industry’s best-known brands as well as groundbreaking startups disrupting the status quo. Nearly 90% of its client base represents multi-year clients and/or repeat client executives. Amendola’s seasoned team of PR and marketing pros understand the ongoing complexities of the healthcare ecosystem and provide strategic guidance and creative direction to drive positive ROI, boost reputation and increase market share. Making an impact since 2003, Amendola combines traditional and digital media to fuel meaningful and measurable growth. For more information about the industry’s “A-Team,” visit this website and follow us on LinkedIn.
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues its inexorable march towards consuming more and more jobs previously done by humans, it may be a question of when, rather than if, humans become the new horses.
Think, for a minute, about how absolutely essential horses were to the economy 200 years ago. With much of the economy still industrializing and dependent on agriculture, horses were vital to the farm work that produced the world’s food. With no automobiles, horses also played a critical role in transportation, delivering goods to market and enabling humans to travel in coaches or by horseback.
Horses were so important that the U.S. equine population grew six-fold between 1840 and 1900 to more than 21 million horses and mules, according to a report in Foreign Affairs. Then came the internal combustion engine, replacing horses with cars in cities and tractors on farms. The U.S. equine population plummeted to 3 million by 1960, a drop of 88% in just 60 years.
For decades if not centuries, a related debate has loomed, ranging from “The Grapes of Wrath” to “2001: A Space Odyssey” and many others: Will technology replace and make human labor irrelevant? (Given that McKinsey reported five years ago that “currently demonstrated technologies could automate 45% of the activities people are paid to perform,” this is a subject that should be a concern for all workers – and that was five years ago!)
Now, with the rise of AI in marketing and public relations, the “Are humans the new horses?” question has begun to hit a little closer to home for PR professionals. Today, we may use AI software for routine, manual, time-consuming tasks such as transcribing interviews. Tomorrow – as AI gets better and smarter, which it most certainly will – we may use AI to write press releases, product descriptions, website copy and the like.
Once AI gets good enough to do that, it will likely begin to take human jobs. Sure, companies will still need some humans to feed information into the AI software to help the software write a press release, but assistance from AI will mean that companies need far fewer humans to produce the same amount of output.
Already, we’re seeing some examples of PR and marketing AI software – just not the kind that is sophisticated enough to take human jobs in a significant way. Copy.ai promises an “end to writer’s block” by helping users “generate marketing copy in seconds.” (I signed up for a seven-day trial and played around the software a little bit to write a product description; it seemed pretty good.) Similarly, Contilt pledges to “put the power of AI at your fingertips” by using software to generate article drafts and do research. No doubt there are plenty of similar startups today, and there will plenty more in the future.
These companies like to sell their AI as tools that will help humans do their jobs, better, which is true enough in the beginning. Then the AI gets smarter, and it begins to approach, but not meet, humans’ ability to edit content or draft a byline, for example. At this point, we’ve started on the slippery slope to where AI’s “good enough” work product becomes so much cheaper for companies to produce than a human-written article, that “good enough” becomes the industry standard for all articles and human writers start to lose their jobs. What a time to be alive!
So what’s a concerned PR professional to do? Data scientist Michael McBride offers three points of advice:
Don’t get cocky: In one notable survey, 90% of responders thought that up to half of jobs would be lost to automation within five years, but 91% didn’t think there was any risk to their job. Don’t fall into the “It can’t happen to me” trap. It can.
Make a process map of your job (extreme kudos to anyone who actually does this!): Create a process map that “visualizes the set of decisions and actions that make up your day-to-day life.”
Double down on soft skills: Professions that require a tremendous amount of empathy and human interaction are among those least likely to be automated.
The good news is that, as it stands in 2021, there are still PR jobs available. Humans haven’t become horses – yet. Nonetheless, prepare for the coming onslaught of AI as if your career depends on it, because it probably does.
