Will Your Health System Hire a Chief AI Officer in 2023?

New C-Suite titles such as chief patient experience officer and chief digital officer pop up from time to time in healthcare. Now some industry insiders are saying that health systems naming chief artificial intelligence officers will be the trend in 2023. I got this idea from reading some 2023 predictions from Punit Soni, CEO of a company called Suki, which builds voice AI interfaces. The company’s Suki Assistant is used in more than 100 health systems and clinics across three dozen specialties. One of his predictions for 2023 is that “Chief AI officer will become a position in health systems differentiated from CIO and data/digital executives.” Until I read that, I hadn’t heard of any health systems creating that title yet, but a quick search turned up several. For instance, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the CIO has a Chief AI Officer named Greg Singleton.