The Healthcare AI Adoption Index - Bessemer Venture Partners
The healthcare industry has reached its AI inflection point, a technological shift mirroring the earlier transition to electronic health records (EHRs)—but this time unfolding at warp speed. The changeover from paper to electronic health records spanned more than a decade, aided by the HITECH Act of 2009, which paid incentives to doctors to adopt EHRs. Yet progress was slow, plagued by reticence to change and complex, disparate processes. In stark contrast, just two and a half years after LLMs became accessible to the masses, AI is now a top priority in healthcare. It’s shaping boardroom agendas, fueling startups (i.e., healthcare AI applications), and easing daily burdens for clinicians, scientists, and administrators. Curiosity has quickly turned into action, with a wave of experimentation underway to reinvent care delivery, diagnosis, and drug development. Bessemer Venture Partners, in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Bain & Company, surveyed more than 400 leaders acro
Jump around The Healthcare AI Adoption Index Top takeaways Slide deck The state of AI adoption today Experimentation but not yet production The development strategy How startups can win 1. Pick the right entry point and expand 2. Prove ROI quickly and navigate the POC trap 3. Shift from traditional sales to co-development 4. Reimagine a complex workflow end-to-end 5. Align your business model to the value you create Introducing the AI Dx Index How buyers can navigate the fast-evolving AI ecosystem 1. Foster a culture primed for AI adoption 2. Establish strong ecosystem relationships 3. Make AI
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