The State of AI in Public Health: New Data from the 2025 ASTHO Profile

You bought an AI tool. Nobody used it. $200/month quietly canceled six months later. You're not alone — and you're not behind. New data from the 2025 ASTHO Profile shows even the CDC — with unlimite

You bought an AI tool. Nobody used it. $200/month quietly canceled six months later.

You're not alone — and you're not behind.

New data from the 2025 ASTHO Profile shows even the CDC — with unlimited resources and top talent — started AI adoption the same way most businesses should: with one specific, unglamorous problem. Analyzing messy, unstructured reports. Not a transformation. A task.

That's the lesson most gurus skip. AI doesn't succeed by replacing your whole operation. It succeeds when you match it to one repeatable job your team already hates doing. Reports. Emails. Data summaries. The stuff that eats hours but produces nothing new.

The organizations getting real ROI from AI right now aren't the ones who bought the biggest platform. They're the ones who picked the smallest problem and solved it completely.

Here's your starting point: Write down one task your team does every week that involves reading, sorting, or summarizing information. That's your first AI use case. Nothing to rip out. No new hires. Just one boring problem with a measurable fix.

What's one repetitive task in your business that feels too small to automate — but quietly drains hours every week?

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At the federal level, CDC has successfully used enterprise AI solutions for a variety of use cases including analyzing unstructured grant reports, ...