HealthLeaders Media January 16, 2026
Ambient AI may mean the difference between success and survival, says LCMC Health System’s CMIO
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Smaller health systems and hospitals are under increasing pressure to hold their own against larger healthcare organizations operating in the same region.
– Ambient AI offers the promise of reducing stress and burnout for clinicians, a key factor in reducing workforce turnover and attracting clinicians.
– With so many products on the market, healthcare executives are seeing value in “bake-offs,” or pilots that test one AI tool against another.
For some health systems looking to use AI, cost plays second fiddle to survival.
At LCMC Health, a six-hospital non-profit operating in and around New Orleans, the shadow cast by Ochsner Health looms...
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