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The Health System AI Retreat Is the Private Practice Opportunity

Why the conditions that make large-scale AI implementation fail are largely absent in a private orthopaedic practice — and what that means for how you should be moving right now.

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Edward M. DelSole, MD
Jun 05, 2026
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A Becker’s Hospital Review headline from this week is worth sitting with: health systems aren’t just killing more AI projects — they’re starting fewer. The readers out there who know me are aware that I transitioned from employment at a large health system based practice to a small private practice for exactly this reason. The retreat isn’t panic. In mo…

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