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Bernhard Seiser, VP of digital, data, and IT at AOP Health, said his organization introduced Copilot and ChatGPT a year ago, and set KPIs to measure success.

"The first one, of course, was adoption. OpenAI told us adoption is high in our organization, so it's heavily used," he said.