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healthsystemCIO – Strategies for Hospital IT Leaders
Anthony Guerra | Veteran Healthcare IT Journalist
UCSF’s Adler-Milstein Says Stay-in-Suite Pull for Clinical AI is Strong, Policy May be Only Way to Level Playing Field
33 minutes Posted May 12, 2026 at 11:42 pm.
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Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, Chief of UCSF's Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation, dissects the procurement and integration dynamics steering health systems toward their EHR vendor's in-suite AI tools at the expense of third-party innovators. Drawing on her recent JAMA viewpoint with Sara Murray and Robert Wachter, she explains why market forces alone will not loosen the EHR vendor's grip — and what a policy intervention could realistically look like.

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