No health systems made the list of the most AI-ready Fortune 500 companies, with the healthcare industry being largely represented by payers.
The inaugural Fortune AIQ 50 rankings incorporated software company ServiceNow’s Enterprise AI Maturity Index, which benchmarks how prepared businesses are to adopt and scale AI, encompassing factors like governance, data strength, automation and workflow.
To come up with the AIQ scores, Fortune partnered with market research firm Enterprise Technology Research to evaluate how organizations are actually using AI and how much technology leaders prioritize those investments compared to industry peers.
“The Fortune AIQ 50 demonstrates how companies across industry sectors are beginning to find real value from the deployment of AI technology,” Fortune AI Editor Jeremy Kahn said in a Sept. 30 news release. “Clearly some sectors, such as tech and finance, are pulling ahead of others.”
Tech and finance each had eight companies on the list — led by Alphabet, Visa, JPMorgan Chase, Nvidia and Mastercard in the top five — while healthcare, energy and industrials had four each.
Healthcare was represented by UnitedHealth Group (No. 25), Centene (No. 27), Elevance Health (No. 35) and Johnson & Johnson (No. 36).
