State of Agentic Orchestration and Automation 2026:
Healthcare

Healthcare leaders see the promise of AI agents: faster prior authorizations, better clinical decision support, streamlined claims. But 77% say there's a gap between that vision and reality, and only 12% of agentic use cases have reached production. This report draws on insights from 125 senior decision-makers at large healthcare organizations to reveal what's keeping agents stuck at the edge of operations, and how agentic orchestration moves them into governed, end-to-end patient journeys, safely and at scale. 

In this report, you will learn:

• Why process automation is delivering business value, and where the runway for more lies
• How rising process complexity is outpacing innovation across clinical, operational, and research workflows
• What's holding agentic AI back, from trust and transparency to compliance and control
• How agentic orchestration provides the control layer to move AI from pilots to production