1、Generative AI applications can already help health systems improve margins,yet only 6%have a strategy ready.By Eric Berger and Margaret DriesBeyond Hype:Getting the Most Out of Generative AI in Healthcare TodayCopyright 2023 Bain&Company,Inc.All rights reserved.1Beyond Hype:Getting the Most Out of G

2、enerative AI in Healthcare TodayAt a Glance In the wake of their most challenging financial year since 2020,US hospitals are desperately searching for margin improvements.Generative AI can increase productivity and cost efficiency,but only 6%of health systems currently have a strategy.Leading provid

3、ers and payers will start with highly focused,low-risk generative AI use cases,generating the funds and experience for more transformative future applications.While Covid-19 may no longer be dominating the global news cycle,healthcare providers and payers are still feeling its reverberations.More th

4、an half of US hospitals ended 2022 with a negative margin,marking the most difficult financial year since the start of the pandemic.CEOs and CFOs remember the challenges all too well:The Omicron surge halted nonurgent procedures in the first half of the year,government support tapered off,and labor

5、expenses ballooned amid staffing shortages.There was also the record-high inflation that continues to intensify margin pressures today.According to a recent Bain survey of health system executives,60%cite rising costs as their greatest concern.Payers and providers are now on the hunt for margin impr

6、ovements.In our experience,the most successful companies wont merely reduce costs,but also ramp up productivity.When done right,modest technology investments can accomplish both.Artificial intelligence(AI)may hold part of the answer.With the costs to train a system down 1,000-fold since 2017,AI prov