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43% Will Let an AI Give Patients Medical Advice | Newsday with 229Project
August 31, 2026: Bill Russell, Sarah Richardson, and Drex DeFord come off a pulse survey of 246 health system leaders. Where the AI cannon points next: patient access and revenue cycle, 86 votes each. Bill's read: you have to win on the financial side before you get licensed to do anything else. Then 43% said AI assistants will be available to most of their patients. 4% said they will not. A clinician CIO at the forum had just flagged a MyChart golf answer as medical advice.
Key Points:
03:32 Pulse survey
04:39 Where the money is going
06:45 Governance vs medical staff alignment
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