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Where AI tools help healthcare organizations, the evidence behind them, and what they cost.
Patient flow, length of stay, ED boarding, discharge delays and hospital costs.
UDS reporting, HRSA rules and the patients that community health centers serve.
Medicare and payer rules, payment models such as TEAM, claim denials, hospital margins and federal fines.
- From the blog
4 of the 7 practice problems on Kent Applied's map need no patient data
Kent Applied, Where AI tools fit in healthcare, by kind of organization; NYC Local Law 144; California Civil Rights Council - From the blog
Imaging, insurance checks, charting and billing lead dentists' current and planned AI use
ADA Health Policy Institute, The State of the US Dental Economy, 2nd Quarter 2026 Update - From research
30 of 44 top healthcare problems need no patient data, in Kent Applied's analysis
Kent Applied, Where AI tools fit in healthcare, by kind of organization; NYC Local Law 144; California Civil Rights Council - From research
Health care and social assistance firms use AI at about the US rate, half the top sector's
US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (sector estimates); BTOS national estimates; US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (about the survey); US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions - From research
Hospital drug expenses grew 13.6% in 2025, nearly twice as fast as total expenses
American Hospital Association, Costs of Caring 2026 (March 2026) - From research
Of the 44 problems, 13 are about money and payers and 10 about rules, surveys and audits
Kent Applied, Where AI tools fit in healthcare, by kind of organization - From research
In 4 of 1,539 TEAM hospital and surgery pairs, the stay alone costs more than the target
Kent Applied, TEAM position report and method; CMS, TEAM PY1 preliminary target prices; CMS, Medicare Inpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024; CMS, TEAM episode construction specifications; CMS, payment standardization method - From the blog
At the median TEAM hospital, the hospital stay uses 38% to 70% of the target, by surgery
Kent Applied, TEAM position report and method; CMS, TEAM PY1 preliminary target prices; CMS, Medicare Inpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024; CMS, TEAM episode construction specifications; CMS, payment standardization method; CMS, TEAM model page - From the blog
A TEAM hospital in Track 3 can owe CMS up to 20% of its total target price in a year
CMS, TEAM Model Overview slides (updated September 2026); 42 CFR 512.550, TEAM reconciliation (eCFR) - From the blog
Only 5% of organizations put a custom or vendor-sold generative AI tool into production
MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 (July 2025) - From research
Readmissions cost all payers up to $44 billion; Medicare's cost is put at $15 to 26 billion
Perspectives in Health Information Management (2016), where the $44 billion is quoted; Harvard Kennedy School, Transitional Care Models for the Elderly (2015); Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From research
No source could be found for the HIMSS 60% and 35% prior authorization figures
SPRY, Which Prior Authorization Software Ranks #1 in 2026? AI-Powered Solutions Compared (2026); Fierce Healthcare on the Peterson Health Technology Institute report, April 13, 2026; Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From research
Explore seven healthcare AI areas and the sources behind each score
Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has evidence (explorer); Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From research
Two of six healthcare AI use cases have at least moderate evidence on all three outcomes
Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From the blog
HRSA puts one UDS report at 238 staff hours, and 184 after the 2026 changes
HRSA, Federal Register notice, June 23, 2025; HRSA, Federal Register notice, June 16, 2026; OMB, approval record, September 3, 2026 - From research
Explore six healthcare AI use cases and the evidence behind each score
Kent Applied, The three-outcome test (explorer); Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From research
Two of seven healthcare AI areas have the evidence to adopt now
Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From research
The 320% documentation AI growth figure compares plans with current use
Healthcare Dive, sponsored content by Microsoft, March 10, 2025; Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From the blog
Hiring a generative AI data scientist on your own can take 14 to 20 weeks or more
KORE1, Time to fill a data scientist role in 2026 - From the blog
Of eight specific pressures in an HFMA survey, CFOs feel least prepared for AI deployment
HFMA, The healthcare C-suite of the future: From AI to ROI (2025) - From the blog
In this worked example, building costs $94,000 less than buying over three years
Kent Applied, How to score an AI vendor before the demo - From the blog
A boarded med-surg stroke patient cost nearly twice as much a day as one on a ward
Canellas et al., Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 84 (2024) - From the blog
Hopkins assigned ED patients a bed 30% faster after opening a command center
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Capacity Command Center news release (October 2016) - From the blog
Length of stay rose most for patients going to psychiatric hospitals or skilled nursing
American Hospital Association, Increasing Delays in Timely Discharges issue brief (December 2022) - From the blog
Payers initially denied nearly 12% of hospital and physician claims in 2024
Kodiak Solutions, press release on 2024 initial denial rates (May 21, 2025) - From the blog
Billing and scheduling were the fastest-growing hospital uses of predictive AI in 2024
ASTP, Data Brief No. 80: Hospital Trends in the Use, Evaluation, and Governance of Predictive AI, 2023-2024 (September 2025) - From the blog
Finding a place that would take the patient caused the most discharge delay days
HANYS, The scope of complex case discharge delays in New York state (2023) - From the blog
Cincinnati Children's went from 76% to 91% occupancy after smoothing its surgery schedule
Eugene Litvak, Bridging the Gap, National Academies presentation (2012); Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Achieving Hospital-wide Patient Flow, 2nd edition (2020)
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Sources for the figures above
- US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (sector estimates) (opens in a new tab)
- Business Trends and Outlook Survey, national estimates (opens in a new tab)
- American Hospital Association, Costs of Caring 2026 (March 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- 42 CFR 512.550, Reconciliation process and determination of the reconciliation payment or repayment amount (opens in a new tab)
- MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 (July 2025) (opens in a new tab)
- Perspectives in Health Information Management (2016), where the $44 billion is quoted (opens in a new tab)
- Harvard Kennedy School, Transitional Care Models for the Elderly (2015) (opens in a new tab)
- HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 23, 2025 (opens in a new tab)
- HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 16, 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- This healthcare AI use case will grow 320% by 2026, survey finds (opens in a new tab)
- KORE1, Time to fill a data scientist role in 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- HFMA, The healthcare C-suite of the future: From AI to ROI (2025) (opens in a new tab)
- Canellas MM et al., Measurement of Cost of Boarding in the Emergency Department Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing, Annals of Emergency Medicine 84(4) (opens in a new tab)
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital Launches Capacity Command Center to Enhance Hospital Operations (news release) (opens in a new tab)
- American Hospital Association, Increasing Delays in Timely Discharges issue brief (December 2022) (opens in a new tab)
- Rate of initial denials of medical insurance claims continued to rise in 2024, Kodiak Solutions proprietary data show (opens in a new tab)
- ASTP, Data Brief No. 80: Hospital Trends in the Use, Evaluation, and Governance of Predictive AI, 2023-2024 (September 2025) (opens in a new tab)
- HANYS, The scope of complex case discharge delays in New York state (2023) (opens in a new tab)
- Eugene Litvak, Bridging the Gap: Operations Management Science, Patient Safety and Health Care Cost (presentation) (opens in a new tab)
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Achieving Hospital-wide Patient Flow, 2nd edition (2020) (opens in a new tab)
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