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The Real ROI of AI Health Assistant Apps (Not the Sales Pitch Version)

  Every healthcare AI vendor pitch has the same slide somewhere near the end: a big return-on-investment number, usually stacked next to a chart pointing up and to the right. Most of those numbers are directionally true and mostly useless, because they don't say where the return actually comes from. If you're the one deciding whether to fund this kind of project, that missing detail matters more than the headline figure. So instead of repeating the pitch, it's worth pulling the number apart. Where does the money actually get saved, and where does it get made? Bitcot's case study on building an AI health assistant app is a decent place to look at this from a real build rather than a projection, since it walks through the specific mechanics of what made a working health assistant actually pay for itself. The return doesn't come from one place, it comes from four The first thing worth untangling is that "AI health assistant ROI" isn't one number. It...