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Rows of server racks in a dim hospital data center, lit by a single shaft of light, evoking unmonitored AI systems running in the background.

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.

A pill bottle beneath an abstract glowing network pattern symbolizing AI reaching into the act of prescribing.

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.

Abstract image of a light signal passing through translucent checkpoints toward a human hand, symbolizing AI-moderated patient messages reviewed before reaching a clinician.

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.

An empty hospital exam room with a glowing device on a cart, suggesting a shift from passive observation to active interaction.

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.