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The strongest near-term case for AI in healthcare is administrative: medical coding, claims processing, denial management, and prior authorization. The work is high-volume, text-heavy, and rules-driven, and a 2024 CMS final rule now puts hard 2026-2027 deadlines behind automating it. The real constraints are HIPAA architecture and vendor diligence, not model capability.
Clinical AI is five distinct procurement problems wearing one label. Imaging AI is a regulated medical device with real trial evidence; drug-discovery AI compresses one R&D step; trial matching and ambient scribes are workflow software with emerging clinical literature; patient chatbots are a liability boundary. This guide maps each workload to its evidence bar, regulatory posture, and the stack decision it actually forces.