Enterprise debt plagues healthcare's AI future, says report

The AI tool isn't the problem. Your disconnected data is. Healthcare just learned this the hard way. A new report found that hospitals spending millions on AI got almost nothing back — not because th

The AI tool isn't the problem. Your disconnected data is.

Healthcare just learned this the hard way. A new report found that hospitals spending millions on AI got almost nothing back — not because the AI was bad, but because their patient data lived in silos that couldn't talk to each other. The AI had nothing clean to work with.

Sound familiar?

That $200/month tool nobody uses? It probably wasn't a bad tool. It likely landed on top of scattered spreadsheets, disconnected systems, and information only one person on your team actually knows where to find. AI can't fix messy inputs. It just fails faster.

This is what the gurus skip when they're selling you the dream.

Before you buy anything else, do this one thing: pick ONE business process that already works reasonably well and ask where the information for that process currently lives. One place? Great — that's your AI starting point. Three places? Fix that first, free.

You don't need to overhaul your systems. You just need one clean lane before you add AI to it.

What's one tool you bought that your team quietly stopped using — and what do you think actually went wrong?

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Siloed patient and claims data and disconnected clinical systems limit what artificial intelligence can deliver, new research says. A small cohort ...