Reimagining healthcare process operations with AI

February 16, 2026

A leader’s guide to embedding AI in core healthcare operations

The healthcare industry depends on processes that must run with accuracy, speed, and full compliance every day. Yet many clinical and administrative workflows still rely on manual steps, disconnected systems, and repetitive data entry that slow teams and increase operational overhead. In 2025, total healthcare administrative costs in the U.S. amount to roughly 15-25% of overall health expenditures, totaling up to $1 trillion annually and draining resources that could support patient care. As operational pressures intensify, healthcare providers need AI-powered systems that can coordinate work across fragmented processes and act autonomously.

Purpose-built AI for healthcare makes this possible. Unlike traditional healthcare automation that simply speeds up manual tasks, agentic AI applications understand clinical context, coordinate across hospital systems, and make decisions autonomously. 

This guide shows where healthcare-specific AI applications, with embedded HIPAA compliance, clinical workflow intelligence, and pre-configured integrations to EHR and payer systems, can be deployed rapidly, delivering measurable impact in weeks, not months, while the underlying agent platform ensures security, governance, and scalability.

What’s inside

Here is a glimpse of what this guide covers.

  • Why healthcare needs intelligent systems that coordinate across fragmented workflows
  • Nine use cases where agentic applications reduce burden and improve operations
  • How multi-agent orchestration manages complex processes autonomously
  • Why  AI for Healthcare on the Kore.ai Agent Platform delivers faster deployment with purpose-built workflows, embedded compliance, and healthcare system integrations