AI agents are hospitals’ newest “employees.” We called their references.

There’s a new type of AI bot on the block—and this time, it’s completely autonomous.

AI agents are steadily making their way into the public consciousness as more companies release them. Last year, generative AI was all the rage, producing ambient scribes that could transcribe a conversation into clinical notes and in-box bots that could draft responses to patients’ MyChart messages. This year, however, the spotlight has shifted to agentic AI, which can initiate a task and complete…