HIT Consultant December 16, 2025
If the last two years were defined by the breathless hype of experimentation, 2026 marks the healthcare industry’s decisive transition from “flashy, one-off experiments” to “top-down programs designed for measurable impact”. Across the digital health landscape, executives agree that the “pilot era is ending,” with the focus shifting entirely to systems that can be “governed, audited, and trusted” at scale.
The narrative for the coming year is no longer about the novelty of generative AI models, but the emergence of “Agentic AI”—tools that move from “predicting to acting” and platform-based workflows where the question changes from “Can AI detect this?” to “Can AI ensure this is completed?”.
From the “invisible” integration of AI into clinical operations to the hard reality...







