AI in Healthcare: 40 real deployments

Developing a healthcare frontier model with Microsoft

AI-driven initial prescription issuance for eight topical acne medications without physician sign-off via Nolla Derm app, authorized by Utah as a first-of-kind US pilot

Operating AI clinical search engine for physician use, processing clinical queries across the US physician base

Reported: used by roughly 40% of US physicians; roughly $300 million in annualized revenue by mid-2026

Deploying specialized clinical-decision-support AI tool to physicians in approximately 100 low- and middle-income countries, extending earlier pilots in Rwanda and Botswana

Using Heidi's AI Care Partner suite including Scribe, Evidence, Remote, and Dictate in clinical operations

Using Heidi's AI Care Partner suite including Scribe, Evidence, Remote, and Dictate in clinical operations

using Tandem Health AI Scribe, Coding Assistant, and Clinical Decision Support platform certified as Class IIa devices under EU MDR

Reported: peer-reviewed studies show 29% admin-time cut and 30% job-satisfaction gain among clinicians

using Tandem Health AI Scribe, Coding Assistant, and Clinical Decision Support platform certified as Class IIa devices under EU MDR

Reported: peer-reviewed studies show 29% admin-time cut and 30% job-satisfaction gain among clinicians

using Tandem Health AI Scribe, Coding Assistant, and Clinical Decision Support platform certified as Class IIa devices under EU MDR

Reported: peer-reviewed studies show 29% admin-time cut and 30% job-satisfaction gain among clinicians

Launched three production medical AI models for verified clinicians: Osler (~5s responses), Sackett (~30s), and Snow (~5min for deeper research); Darwin model withheld in research preview citing dual-use risks in virology and genetics

Generative-AI medical device accepted into FDA TEMPO pilot for deployment without prior marketing authorization, tied to Medicare ACCESS model for chronic-condition management

Generative-AI medical device accepted into FDA TEMPO pilot for deployment without prior marketing authorization, tied to Medicare ACCESS model for chronic-condition management

27 AI scribe products processing clinical notes and summaries across NHS facilities

Reported: AI scribes produced errors including misidentifying 'null demyelination' as an MS-style diagnosis and substituting a prescribed drug for a similar-sounding one, with errors appearing in patient records

Samsung is piloting an AI health coach that reads sleep, activity and vital-sign data inside the Samsung Health app while avoiding medical advice.

UC San Diego researchers used teleoperated humanoid robots to perform gallbladder surgery in a live-animal preclinical trial.

Reported: Two live-pig procedures succeeded: one paired a humanoid with a human assistant and one used two humanoids.

Gates Foundation and OpenAI committed $50M to deploy AI for triage, clinical decision support and admin reduction for frontline workers in 1,000 African primary care clinics by 2028, starting in Rwanda then rolling into Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria.

Doctronic continues phase one of its AI doctor prescribing pilot in Utah with physician review, after the state Medical Licensing Board's suspension request was denied.

Brazil's Minas Gerais state runs the Saude Mental Digital AI CBT chatbot inside its Family Health Strategy public primary care system, now evaluated with a fuzzy regression discontinuity study of its effect on anxiety and depression symptom scores.

Running the CVS Health100 platform built on Gemini via Google Cloud

Early customer of Empirik's AI platform that predicts infrastructure outages by inferring the ripple effects of system changes

Mayo Clinic developed and tested the MAYA digital assistant inside its health platform, according to allegations by its former AI compliance lead.

Reported: A lawsuit alleges MAYA reached error rates as high as 67% and that unfavorable test results were concealed.

Fifteen health systems deploy Carebricks operational AI agents and FDA-cleared clinical algorithms to address wait times, missed follow-ups and paperwork backlogs.

Reported: The platform is deployed at 15 health systems.

Deploying an AI ECG system to detect cardiac conditions in patients

Reported: Spotted cardiac amyloidosis in patients whose symptoms could have pointed elsewhere

The UK government is investing £20 million to extend AI-powered chest X-ray analysis for lung cancer diagnosis, currently available in half of England's NHS Trusts, to all NHS Trusts by 2029, with the AI acting as a virtual second pair of eyes for radiologists.

Reported: Early deployments have already helped over 4 million patients receive faster lung cancer diagnoses or all-clears, cutting analysis time for complex cases from 8 days to approximately 4 days.

Five Johns Hopkins hospitals prospectively validated Bayesian Health's TREWS algorithm, which runs continuously against live EHR streams to flag sepsis before clinicians do.

Reported: 82% sensitivity; documented 18% relative mortality reduction when alerts were acted on within an hour.

Mayo Clinic's REDMOD radiomics model analyzed ~2,000 routine CTs to detect pancreatic cancer up to 3 years before diagnosis, with the prospective AI-PACED trial now enrolling elevated-risk cohorts.

Reported: flagged 73% of prediagnostic cancers at a median 16 months pre-diagnosis, roughly double unaided specialist sensitivity; 19% false-positive rate (81/430 controls flagged)

Ardent Health clinicians use ambient AI clinical documentation as a default tool, which the hospital system frames as workforce capacity against the looming doctor shortage.

Reported: Ambient AI used in 90% of visits; documentation time cut 44%.

An AI transcription system deployed for use by doctors in Ontario generated errors and fabricated clinical content that appeared in physician notes, the provincial auditor found.

Reported: Auditor identified hallucinated details in physician notes, raising direct patient safety concerns

Northwestern rolled out the DAX ambient documentation tool for clinicians.

Reported: higher-acuity E/M billing post-DAX rollout

8,581 ambulatory clinicians across five health systems used AI-powered ambient scribes, with 1,809 adopters tracked over two years in the largest real-world ambient-scribe evaluation to date.

Reported: 13 minutes/day less in the EHR, 16 minutes less documenting, and roughly half an extra visit per week

AI chat interface for patients to shop for medications, access lab services, telehealth and in-person visits

Kinney Drugs deployed the Burt AI voice assistant for prescription-refill communications.

Reported: Customers reported garbled messages, incorrect dosages, missed refill notifications and failures to find long-standing accounts.

The UK's NHS is running AI agents over WhatsApp to reduce missed cancer screening appointments, per a practitioner working on NHS tools.

Reported: Reported as operational and effective, with measurable clinical impact; no figures given

Deployed Hadrian's agentic AI offensive-security platform for critical exposure visibility and remediation

OpenAI committed $50M to AI-powered health-worker training in Rwanda as a named partner in the Gates Foundation AI initiative

G1 wheeled humanoid robot deployed in Beijing Haidian pharmacy for pharmaceutical inventory retrieval across 5,000 SKUs

Reported: 99.5% pick success rate across 5,000 SKUs

Using Airbound autonomous drones for diagnostic-sample delivery runs

Reported: cut a three-to-five-hour truck trip to seven minutes

Mount Sinai integrated the OpenEvidence LLM clinical reference enterprise-wide inside its Epic EHR for physicians, nurses and pharmacists.

Cleveland Clinic uses the Synapsis AI LLM screening platform to speed enrollment in a Phase 3 polycythemia vera trial.

Reported: identified eligible candidates faster than conventional prescreening

Health system Providence used IBM's AI consulting platform in its hiring workflows, reported as a customer result at IBM Think 2026.

Reported: 90% reduction in time spent on hiring steps and 70% improvement in job-request accuracy