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Industry voices discuss where AI will make the biggest impact in the healthcare workforce and which positions may be affected by automation.

At HIMSS26, Dr. Nathan Moore of the BJC Accountable Care Organization will show how health systems can move beyond chatbots toward safely deploying AI that takes action in complex workflows – pulling data, triaging patients and nudging clinicians.

At Annapolis Internal Medicine, patient satisfaction ratings jumped, labor capacity more than doubled without adding staff, and hold times dropped from four minutes to under one minute, all because of the agentic AI technology.

The extension allows providers to continue remotely prescribing Schedule II–V controlled substances under specific conditions to prevent a disruptive "telemedicine cliff."

Beth Meese, the health system's executive director of IT, digital health and enterprise EMR, offers a preview of her HIMSS26 session, which will offer an up-close perspective on how to make ambient tools work to "meaningfully reduce" clinician burden.

Big investments focused on AI infrastructure, cloud services and new PCs helped fuel a 14% increase this past year, according to the research firm – the fastest year of growth since the era of Windows 95 and the World Wide Web.

All 50 states were awarded funding to launch their proposals to achieve sustainable rural healthcare over a 10-year timeframe. See how much each stated received.

And that was just in the first six months. By catching needed radiology follow-ups and ensuring patients receive recommended follow-up care, the Virginia health system helps prevent more advanced disease and supports value-based care initiatives, one exec says.

New agentic tools, medication management advances, medical device guidance and the "great tech reckoning" were among just some of the hundreds of artificial intelligence and machine learning stories we published this past year.

Rural hospitals are overcoming fears of artificial intelligence and adopting tools that integrate with electronic health records on their own terms – whether that's all at once or by cultivating buy-in slowly and deliberately.