AI is shortening healthcare’s strategy horizon

Becker’s Hospital Review – Friday, August 21, 2026
By Laura Dyrda

Health systems have spent two years debating which AI tools to buy. The executives running them are starting to question how often they need to revisit that decision.

Richard Mulry, president and CEO of Northwell Holdings in New Hyde Park, N.Y., sees the cycle speeding up as the cost structure around AI changes.

“The most dangerous trend in healthcare right now is borrowed conviction: letting someone else’s roadmap, or someone else’s press release, stand in for your own operating strategy,” Mr. Mulry said. “AI has created a kind of gravitational pull where the fear of being late is doing more to pressure capital allocation than the actual problems in front of us.”

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