Healthcare Is Short On People, But AI Is Closing The Gap
Salesforce, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
AI agents in healthcare relieve clinicians of administrative burdens and improve access for underserved communities. Here are four examples.
You open an email from your doctor's office expecting a routine physical reminder. Instead, it's a closure notice. The practice is shutting down, and you're one of thousands being absorbed into already overextended clinics. When you call to transfer records, you reach a busy signal or, worse, an overwhelmed staff trying to manage a spike in patients.
This isn't an isolated story. The U.S. faces a projected shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. The problem is even more acute in the nursing sector