On Monday, at the annual ViVE conference, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown LA this week, artificial intelligence (AI) was, as expected, a big topic.

According to a new report by Deloitte, 85 percent of healthcare leaders plan to increase investment in agentic AI over the next two to three years, with 61 percent already building or implementing initiatives. Bill Fera, a principal at Deloitte, told Healthcare Innovation that he was heartened that the healthcare industry is embracing generative AI as much as it is. This, he said, is going to build trust for the next layers that are coming.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” Fera said, who expressed feeling positive about the future. “In the past, where we've had these hype cycles, there's been a lot of prediction about what's going to happen, versus what we're seeing now is actual adoption.”

“You can't do anything without picking up something about the latest AI,” Cathy Turner, chief marketing and nursing executive with the EHR software company, MEDITECH, remarked. “But that has enabled us to embed that within workflows across the healthcare organizations.”

“We're just excited about where the world is going in terms of what kind of new sets of problems we can solve with AI,” Aditya Bansod, co-founder and CTO at Luma Health, which offers an operational AI platform, told Healthcare Innovation. “I think systems and leaders that are willing to embrace the change that is inevitable ahead of them and don't hold on too tightly to what worked in the past, tend to be the partners that we find the most successful.”