The Growing Role of AI Agents in Healthcare

15:36 - 13 Jan 2026

Agentic artificial intelligence is reshaping how some healthcare organizations coordinate care, streamline patient journeys and expand access to critical services. It’s not just a passive tool; it’s supporting information analysis and orchestrating complex workflows across clinical and administrative environments, including improving screening pathways and easing care transitions. “By stabilizing IT infrastructure, agentic AI helps lay the foundation for more advanced, front-end automation,” says Mutaz Shegewi, senior research director for worldwide healthcare provider AI, platforms and...