How AI will Change Health Care

October 23, 2025

The use and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is a hot topic across hospitals, lawmakers, and patients around the world.

This week, the American Medical Association (AMA) launched its Center for Digital Health and AI, highlighting the ways physicians will be important during this transformation in medicine.

“Augmented Intelligence will be a defining force in the future of health care, but right now we are barely scratching the surface of its potential,” said AMA CEO and Executive Vice President John Whyte, MD, MPH, in a statement.

Here are five things to know:

• About:  The new center’s priority areas include policy and regulatory leadership, clinical workflow integration, education and training, and collaboration.
• Overall goal:  The aim of the new center is to embed “physicians throughout the lifecycle of technology development and deployment to ensure it fits into clinical workflow and physicians know how to utilize it.”
• By the numbers:  About two-thirds of physicians report incorporating AI-tools into their practice, per a recent AMA survey.
• Why now?:  Interest in artificial intelligence as a tool has exploded in recent years. This offered an exciting potential to support health care while creating new questions around risks, data privacy, reliability, and safety considerations.
• Quotable:  “Digital health tools are everywhere and the technology has limitless opportunity, but if you don’t understand clinical practice or clinical workflow, even the best tools will never be fully implemented,” Whyte said.

Hospitals are at the forefront of this work to advance health care through AI and other emerging technologies. For additional insights on the implementation of AI to support the health care workforce, read the recent blog from HAP’s Tom Kitchen, Jr., MECM, manager, emergency management.