Report by Clearwater Security & Compliance
Closing the AI Governance Gap: The 2026 Healthcare AI Security and Governance Benchmark
Key Findings
91% of healthcare organizations cannot verify what AI is actually running in their environments.
Only 14.3% of healthcare organizations fully validate their vendors' AI controls.
74% of healthcare organizations are already exploring or running agentic systems.
42% of healthcare organizations identify sensitive or proprietary data leaking through AI tools as their greatest internal AI-related concern, compared with 30.8% who cite employees using unapproved AI tools without oversight.
66% of healthcare organizations identify security and privacy concerns as their leading hurdle to AI adoption.
80% of healthcare organizations either spend less than 5% of their security budget on AI security or do not know how much they spend.
40% of healthcare organizations can demonstrate that they control how data is sent to AI tools.
46% of healthcare organizations identify AI introduced through third parties as their greatest external AI concern, compared with 34.6% who identify AI-powered attacks.