McKinsey November 18, 2025
The surge in the use of AI healthcare tools is likely to prompt a shift away from point solutions. Early investors will set the foundation for an integrated architecture and clinical-data foundries.
AI has captured the zeitgeist, and healthcare organizations now have an overwhelming number of AI solutions to choose from. Confronted with deep structural challenges, such as labor shortages, rising care costs, and persistent margin compression, it’s no surprise that widespread adoption of AI-enabled point solutions (applications that improve a single activity or task) from healthcare services and technology (HST) companies has taken off.
Indeed, it’s an embarrassment of riches. AI solutions are proliferating faster than most organizations can absorb them, pressuring healthcare organizations to evolve how they work....







