79% of hospitals are running AI tools built by their EHR vendor. Not because those tools are necessarily the best, but because the structural advantages of staying in suite make it the easier choice every single time.

In this episode of The Policy Stack, taken from Innovaccer's Context 2026 Healthcare Autonomy conference, Lisa Bari, Head of Policy and Partnerships at Innovaccer, and Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, Professor at UCSF, joined Ruth Reader of Second Opinion for one of the most substantive policy conversations of the conference.

The data from Julia's recent JAMA perspective piece makes it clear: health systems are not always choosing the best AI tools available. They are choosing the most accessible ones. Until the information blocking rules that are already in law get enforced, until API performance is publicly reported, and u ...