December 10, 2025 — Ohio. Award-winning AI expert and physician–scientist Dr. Sahar Hashmi, MD-PhD, CEO of Magna GenAI Consulting, former Harvard faculty, delivered a highly sought-after presentation on AI adoption in healthcare to more than 135 members of the HIMSS Ohio Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence (AI COE). Her talk centered on one of the most urgent structural barriers preventing AI from scaling in healthcare today: the EMR Divide.
Drawing on leading research from MIT, Bain, BCG, IDC, and Deloitte, Dr. Hashmi highlighted why 95% of AI initiatives fail to deliver measurable value, despite more than $40 billion being invested into healthcare AI globally. She emphasized that the real barrier is not the sophistication of AI models—but the fragmented, incompatible, and siloed nature of data across EMR systems. This “architectural mismatch,” she noted, is what prevents AI systems from achieving consistent, real-world performance.
Her message echoed the insights from her newly published executive AI expert Forbes article, “The $40 Billion Healthcare AI Failure and the EMR Divide Sabotaging Progress,” where she explains why this divide is crippling innovation and how only a small percentage of systems are succeeding.
Read the full Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/saharhashmi/2025/12/26/the-40-billion-healthcare-ai-failure-and-the-emr-divide-sabotaging-progress/
Bridging the EMR Divide: A Strategic Imperative for Hospitals and Health Systems
In her talk, Dr. Hashmi outlined a clear roadmap for healthcare organizations seeking to close the EMR Divide and build scalable, trustworthy AI systems and provided insights on how to close these existing gaps.
Without solving these foundational gaps, she warned, health systems are essentially attempting to “build AI on a broken nervous system”—a phrase she expands on in her Forbes article while explaining how fragmented data undermines accuracy, reliability, and scalability.
Dr.Hashmi conducts customized AI booster workshops for leaderships to guide them on their AI journeys and provides actionable insights on AI adoption using her own designed frameworks around the concepts of build, buy or partner with AI solutions.
A Broader Vision: Every Sector Needs Its Own Center of Excellence
Another major theme of Dr. Hashmi’s presentation was the strategic importance of establishing Centers of Excellence (COEs) across all industries, not just healthcare. She described COEs as the backbone of responsible AI adoption because they:
- Build AI ready infra-structure
- Drive evidence-based implementation
- Establish governance, oversight, and ethical standards
- Provide workforce training and cross-disciplinary education
- Ensure measurable frameworks for KPIs, AI evaluations and ROIs
- Create a structured path from pilot projects to enterprise-scale deployment
Dr. Hashmi concluded by emphasizing that the leaders of tomorrow will be the organizations that invest today in strong infrastructure, coordinated governance, and multidisciplinary collaboration through their COEs.
“AI is not limited by technology—it is limited by fragmentation and lack of alignment,” she noted. “Centers of Excellence are how we build the foundation for scalable, trustworthy AI across every industry.” Her Forbes analysis further expands on this call to action, offering a national framework for bridging the EMR divide and accelerating real AI value in healthcare.
About Dr. Sahar Hashmi:
Dr. Sahar Hashmi is an MD with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and a Master’s in Systems Design and Management. She is the CEO of Magna GenAI Consulting, a global consulting firm dedicated to advising clients on their strategic AI journeys and turning vision into reality based in Boston, MA, United States. Contact: +1-617-580-6760 (WhatsApp Available)
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A pioneering expert at the intersection of clinical medicine, business, and data science, Dr. Hashmi specializes in AI strategy and implementation road-mapping, guiding healthcare institutions through executive-level transformation. Her customized workshops utilize proprietary frameworks for specialized fields—including AI in surgery, cardiology, neurology, business, banking, and creative industries like AI in fashion industry and art—making her a sought-after advisor in global executive communities.
Dr. Hashmi is a regular Forbes contributor on AI, Business, and Healthcare, providing insights that bridge industry and academia.
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Dr. Sahar Hashmi has been invited to speak at prominent leadership conferences, including the HIMSS AI conferences in New York Chicago, and Middle East and actively advises private clinics and hospital systems on AI strategy and implementation mapping.