1、April 2026Healthcare PracticeGenerative AI in healthcare:Adoption matures as agentic AI emergesWith half of US organizations in our survey now implementing gen AI,the focus is turning to integration,ROI,and agentic AI to realize value across healthcare domains.by Jessica Lambwith Amine Dahab and Joh

2、n JonesGenerative AI in healthcare:Adoption matures as agentic AI emerges2Over the past two years,healthcare leaders have shifted from questioning whether and where gen AI is relevant to focusing on how it can be used responsibly and at scale.Our latest survey of US healthcare leaders highlights sev

3、eral signals of gen AIs maturation:Half of leaders report that their organizations have already implemented gen AI,more than 80 percent have deployed their first use cases to end users,and while AI safety risks remain top of mind,implementation barriers are now equally urgent(see sidebar,“Research m

4、ethodology”).Notably,half of respondents say their organizations deployed their first use cases more than six months ago.This cadence reflects increased confidence in both organizational capabilities and operational readiness,suggesting that healthcare organizations no longer view gen AI as experime

5、ntal but increasingly as a core competency.At the same time,the challenges that healthcare leaders face are evolving.Longstanding concerns around trust,safety,and governance now sit alongside the operational realities of integration.Against this backdrop,emerging interest in agentic AI points to the

6、 next stage of maturityone in which organizations move from using gen AI to create content and support individual tasks to using agentic AI to take action and coordinate more complex processes end to end.Research methodologyTo better understand how healthcare organizations are thinking about impleme