What the Data Says About Where AI Is Actually Paying Off
Deployed ≠ Delivering: What the Data Reveals About AI Portfolios at 50+ Health Systems
Health systems are continuing to delegate large budgets to AI initiatives in 2026. These decisions on where to invest are largely made without performance metrics to back the investment. That's because the data hasn't been available — until now.
Leveraging data from the 2026 AI Catalyst Benchmark, this guide provides a breakdown of the most revealing statistics behind AI decisions at 50+ health and 633 AI deployments.
If you're navigating AI investment decisions, download this guide for insight on where AI is returning financial value, where it isn't, and what's driving the gap between the two at health systems.
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Insights You'll Gain
Get a snapshot into how your peer health systems are handling their AI choices. In this guide, you'll learn:
Why AI spending and AI accountability are on a collision course. See the data showing that, even as AI spending is sharply up, most deployments still aren’t proving ROI.
Where AI deployments are proving ROI. See what the data says about the specific underutilized use cases in health systems that are proving strong financial returns.
What’s driving AI investment decisions. Understand how health systems have been choosing where to invest and how you can elevate that process to achieve better ROI.
How to close the knowledge gap before your next budget cycle. Get access to the full peer benchmark and network that turns "we think this is working" into "we know this is working."
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