Health IT leaders across the country are sounding the alarm on a common theme: the pace of AI adoption is outrunning the governance, cybersecurity and workforce readiness needed to deploy it safely.
From CIOs and CISOs to chief AI officers and digital innovation leads, executives at organizations ranging from Stanford Health Care to UPMC to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center point to a widening gap between how fast AI capabilities are entering clinical workflows and how prepared health systems are to manage them.
Becker’s Healthcare asked healthcare IT, digital and marketing leaders to identify the most dangerous trend in health IT today. Their responses, featured below, surface recurring concerns: AI arriving through EHR platform updates rather than formal procurement review, automation bias eroding clinical judgment, expanding cyberattack surfaces, and the risk of mistaking technology deployment for true transformation. Here’s what they had to say.