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AI Features Are Becoming the New EHR Lock-In

As ambient documentation and agentic tools embed into EHR platforms, health systems are trading interface lock-in for AI lock-in, with little contractual protection.

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Agentic AI Is Colliding With Information Blocking Law

As EHR vendors build AI stickiness into their platforms, federal rules moving toward autonomous data access expose an unresolved question of who authorizes the agent.

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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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Who Controls the Agent Is the Governance Question, Not Whether It Works

As agentic AI moves into clinical workflows, health systems are letting vendor architecture decide who holds authorization and audit control by default.