Healthcare AI's Adoption Gap Outlasts Every Pilot Season

What the volume of healthcare AI conversation obscures is how thoroughly the field has already answered its early questions. The debate over whether AI can detect anomalies in medical imaging, flag sepsis risk, or surface drug interactions is settled — the technology works in controlled environments. What has not been answered is whether health systems can absorb these tools at the operational level, and the evidence now accumulating suggests most cannot, yet.