Healthcare leaders are under growing pressure to adopt AI — but many AI initiatives fail: expensively, quietly, or without real impact. In this episode, Dr. M. Ayoub Ashraf distills hard-earned lessons from a publicly shared survey of 64 U.S. nonprofit hospital systems, capturing what senior executives say actually worked, and what didn't, when implementing AI in real clinical and operational environments.

Rather than hype or vendor promises, the discussion focuses on why most AI deployments stall after pilots, what separates "invisible" AI success from visible failure, why leadership alignment matters more than algorithms, why clinicians resist AI and how successful systems overcame it, and the governance and execution mistakes hospitals keep repeating. These insights were shared publicly at the American College of Healthcare Executives (A ...