MedCity News March 9, 2025
Healthcare organizations are starting to implement AI agents — autonomous, task-specific systems designed to perform functions with little or no human intervention. While initial adoption is focused mainly on non-clinical areas like scheduling and prior authorizations, experts predict that AI agents could eventually play a role in clinical decision-making, provided they meet rigorous safety and reliability standards.
The use of AI in healthcare has evolved quite a bit over the past few years — with many healthcare organizations transitioning from a state of cautious experimentation to more serious attempts at scaled integration. As millions of venture capital dollars continue to flow to startups developing healthcare AI, it’s clear that organizations across the industry will be leveraging this technology to optimize...