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The Governance Gap Hospitals Can No Longer Delegate to IT

Health systems are running hundreds of AI tools with few having named oversight authority, and agentic AI is already outrunning the approval process.

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The Permission Problem in Clinical AI

Hospitals are letting AI agents act, not just draft, and most governance committees still lack a way to specify or audit what those agents are authorized to do.

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When AI Writes the Prescription

Utah's AI-issued acne prescriptions test the line between clinical decision support and practicing medicine, with implications for every health system's AI procurement.

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When the Scribe Starts Writing Orders

Ambient AI is moving from transcribing encounters to placing orders and updating charts, crossing a governance line hospitals have not yet staffed for.

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Autonomous Coding Arrives as the Certification Backstop Narrows

Health systems are handing chart coding to autonomous AI just as ONC's HTI-5 rule shrinks federal certification oversight, leaving governance entirely in-house.

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The Escalation Contract Patient-Facing AI Actually Needs

Penn Medicine's AI-moderated epilepsy messaging pilot shows the real governance work is designing the human review loop, not picking the model.

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When the Scribe Starts Asking Questions

Ambient AI scribes are being redeployed as interactive patient intake agents, and most hospital governance policies still classify them by their original, lower-risk use case.