Healthcare AI governance for healthcare CFOs
The problem from this chair
Every AI business case that reaches you counts gross revenue against a vendor invoice, and you have no way to tell a real one from an optimistic one without doing the analysis yourself.
The metrics you are actually measured on
- Total cost of care per attributed life
- Cost per completed visit, fully loaded
- Contribution margin by service line
- Denial write-offs and cost to collect
- Return on the last three technology deployments
Every framework in the library is anchored to metrics like these rather than to model performance, because model performance is not what you are asked about in a board meeting.
Where to start
The ROI calculators. They are built to be argued with — every assumption is a cell you can change, and the sensitivity tab shows you the pessimistic case that most vendor models omit.
The honest limit
Nothing here removes the need for judgment about your own organisation. The instruments make the judgment faster and make it auditable. They do not make it for you.
Written and reviewed by Neel Chauhan, MD MBA, physician-executive and founder of the Healthcare AI Institute. Last reviewed 2026-07-30.
Written per role rather than templated: the pain, the metrics and the first artifact genuinely differ by seat, which is what makes these distinct pages rather than one page repeated.
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