Healthcare's AI Workforce Has Outpaced Its Oversight Layer
As agentic AI spreads across revenue cycle and clinical operations, health systems face a widening gap between deployment and demonstrable control.
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The Permission Problem Behind Agentic AI in Hospitals
As hospital AI moves from drafting text to taking action, governance committees need authority maps, not just accuracy metrics.
HTI-5 Narrows Certification. It Doesn't Narrow Information Blocking Exposure.
ONC's HTI-5 rule strips back health IT certification criteria while leaving Cures Act information blocking obligations fully intact, creating a gap health systems must close themselves.
When Patients Hand Their Records to an AI Agent, Who Is Governing What Happens Next
Athenahealth and Zocdoc now route patient records into third-party AI agents, and HHS just deferred the rule change that would address it.
Vendors Are Selling Prior Auth Readiness the Rulebook Hasn't Finished Writing
HTI-5's deferral of information blocking and AI agent rules leaves CMS-0057-F vendor claims unverifiable against any finished federal standard.
Revenue Cycle AI Has a Defensibility Problem, Not a Transparency Problem
As CMS-0057-F's prior authorization API deadline nears and denials climb, health systems need AI that can reconstruct its reasoning, not just disclose it.
When the Scribe Starts Talking to Patients
Ambient AI vendors are moving from note-drafting scribes to patient-facing intake agents, and most health systems haven't re-run the risk assessment for that leap.
