Two of seven healthcare AI areas have the evidence to adopt now
Kent Applied scores for seven areas of hospital AI spending: published evidence (across), market momentum (up) and how ready each is to deploy (bubble size), September 2026
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- Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does notFig. 1, its table, and Explore for the sources behind every score
- Method
- Tyler Kent scored each area from 1 to 4 on three separate measures in September 2026: the strength of the published evidence, the direction of investment, adoption and regulation, and how hard deployment is for an average health system. Scores come from published literature and public regulatory activity, not vendor material. The verdict weighs all three.
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