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Insights for healthcare leaders
Interactive analyses built from public data, articles by Tyler Kent with every figure sourced, and the AI news a healthcare leader should know about, picked each day. Every chart and sourced number is free to share and cite.
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Research
Interactive analyses
Built from public data. Search them, filter them, and check the source behind every number.
AI tools by kind of organization
Where AI tools fit in healthcare
44 problems across six kinds of healthcare organizations, each with a sourced number, and the tools that address them. For 30 of the 44, an AI tool can help without ever reading patient data.
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CMS TEAM model
TEAM hospital explorer
For five surgeries, Medicare's TEAM program sets a budget per patient, called a target price, that covers the hospital stay and the 30 days after. Search any of the 720 hospitals on CMS's June 2026 list. For the 523 with enough Medicare stays in the 2024 public data, see how much of each target the hospital stay uses, next to the typical hospital.
Find your hospital
Where healthcare AI has proof, part one
Healthcare AI evidence map
Seven areas where hospitals spend on AI, each rated on published evidence and market momentum, with links to the sources behind each evidence rating.
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Where healthcare AI has proof, part two
Three quoted numbers
Each one is checked against its source. The 320% compares a plan with current use, the $44 billion is the top of a range for unplanned readmissions across all payers, and no source could be found for the prior authorization figures.
See what the sources say
Where healthcare AI has proof, part three
The three-outcome test
Six AI use cases scored on clinical, operational and financial outcomes at once. Two of the six have at least moderate published evidence on all three. For one of the two, dementia care, the published results come from a staffed care program, and what AI adds to it has not been measured.
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Source for the TEAM program: CMS, Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM).
Blog
Latest articles
Short articles by Tyler Kent on healthcare AI, data and operations. Every figure is sourced.
AI adoption
What a medical practice can hand to AI without patient data
Four of the seven practice problems on my map can go to AI tools that never read a patient record. Here is which four, and how to handle the other three.
Four of the seven practice problems in my October 2026 map of 44 healthcare problems can go to AI tools that never read a patient record.
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AI adoption
What happens to your data when an AI vendor shuts down
What HIPAA requires of a vendor holding patient data when its contract ends, what it leaves to your contract, and the terms to check before a vendor closes.
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AI adoption
In my map of 44 healthcare problems, 30 need no patient data
I mapped the 44 problems that cost six kinds of healthcare organizations the most money or carry the most risk. The biggest group is about money and payers, and the next is about rules, surveys and audits. Healthcare uses AI at about the national rate, and for 30 of the 44 problems, every tool I'd advise works without reading a patient record.
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News
Healthcare AI news
The five newest stories, each with a line on what it means for a hospital, health center or health-tech company.
Updated Tuesday, October 20
U.S. Orders Federal Agencies to Remove DeepSeek AI from All Systems (opens in a new tab)
TechCrunch, Oct 20
How this relates to healthcare: Health systems that buy AI tools should ask vendors which underlying models they use, since federal agencies must now remove DeepSeek and tools built on it.
Hacker Used AI Agents to Break Into Over 100 Company Websites Autonomously (opens in a new tab)
The Verge, Oct 20
How this relates to healthcare: Security teams should plan for automated attacks that hit many targets at once, and review patching, monitoring and response times for public-facing sites and patient portals.
Study: 90% of U.S. Working Hours Involve Tasks AI Benchmarks Don't Measure Well (opens in a new tab)
Hacker News front page, Oct 17
How this relates to healthcare: When a vendor cites benchmark scores, ask for results on tasks like your own staff's work before counting on the time savings in a budget.
Rogue AI Agents Reported Active in India, Following Global Pattern (opens in a new tab)
TechCrunch, Oct 17
How this relates to healthcare: Any AI agent your organization runs needs narrowly scoped credentials and locked-down cloud settings, because exposed keys and misconfigurations are how these agents got in.
ChatGPT Can Now Read Your Open Browser Tabs in Chrome (opens in a new tab)
The Verge, Oct 16
How this relates to healthcare: Staff who tag Chrome while a patient chart or other sensitive page is open could share it with ChatGPT, so AI use policies should address browser extensions.
Charts
Charts to share
Every chart on the site, each with its source and its data. Free to share and embed with credit.
- 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
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 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 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
Sources for the figures above: American Hospital Association, Costs of Caring 2026 (March 2026) (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).
Facts
Numbers you can cite
One number, one sentence of context and a link to the source that states it.
43.3%
of US dentists in private practice said they use AI for at least one task, second quarter of 2026
43.3% of US dentists in private practice said they currently use AI for at least one task in their practice, in the ADA Health Policy Institute's poll for the second quarter of 2026. Another 26.4% said they do not use AI but plan to.
Source: The State of the US Dental Economy, 2nd Quarter 2026 Update.
KentApplied32.7M
patients served by HRSA-funded health centers in 2025
Health centers funded by HRSA served 32,746,392 patients in 2025, across 1,356 Health Center Program awardees, in HRSA's 2025 Uniform Data System.
Source: HRSA Uniform Data System, national data, 2025.
KentApplied3,567
of 5,121 US community hospitals belong to a health system of any size
3,567 of the 5,121 US community hospitals belonged to a health system of any size in the 2024 AHA Annual Survey, and 1,797 were rural, AHA's 2026 Fast Facts reports. The two counts overlap, because some rural hospitals also belong to a system.
Source: Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2026.
KentApplied
Sources for the figures above: ADA Health Policy Institute, The State of the US Dental Economy, 2nd Quarter 2026 Update (opens in a new tab); HRSA Uniform Data System, national data, 2025 (opens in a new tab); Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2026 (opens in a new tab).
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