Yet, the predominant risk with healthcare AI initiatives is adoption speed, often without a thoughtful strategy to back it. Healthcare leaders must start the modernization with a razor-sharp focus on these areas to scale their AI investments for long-term success. Before deploying advanced software like agentic AI, healthcare leaders must target highly manual, document-heavy administrative workflows that can be overhauled. They are issuing AI playbooks and building guardrail frameworks that healthcare leaders are well-served to operate by. To ensure this shift truly benefits healthcare consumers and employees, as well as the business, healthcare leaders must modernize their digital foundations first.