Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI

Alan Mesk

Published Jun 2, 2026, 11:35 AM UTC

Source: Science & R&DSource
- Title: Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI The global health workforce faces a 11M shortfall by 2030. Enter agentic AI. HSS deployed Ema Unlimited’s agents to automate insurance claims, cutting appeal time from 45 mins to 5s and boosting success to 100%. Now, AI handles triage, booking specialists via web/text/phone. It’s not just digitalization; it’s autonomous decision-making that collapses workflows. Dr. Barad calls it a general-purpose tech like electricity. By unifying fragmented data, these agents retrieve clinical context and escalate only when needed. The goal? 90% of non-clinical tasks handled by AI, freeing humans for "white-glove" care. This is the infrastructure for rehumanized medicine.