Forbes December 26, 2025
Sahar Hashmi

Healthcare’s AI revolution has a math problem: the industry is pouring billions into artificial intelligence yet few initiatives make it into real clinical use. Across research firms the pattern is consistent — the vast majority of healthcare AI projects do not deliver measurable value. While headlines often cite a 95% failure rate the deeper truth is even more telling: only about 4% of organizations report achieving meaningful scaled AI impact.

These numbers are not simple complements. The 95% figure reflects project-level failures while the 4% represents organizations that successfully operationalize AI across multiple workflows based on broader enterprise AI maturity research. Together they reveal the widening gap between experiments and outcomes.
After years of advising healthcare systems and technology leaders the...

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