Cleveland-based MetroHealth and Artisight partnered to deploy the health tech company's smart hospital platform across multiple facilities within the safety net health system.
Artisight offers artificial intelligence-driven hospital infrastructure and optimization solutions. The company’s platform was designed to be a central hub for smart hospitals. It integrates computer vision, a multi-sensor network, indoor positioning and real-time location systems, voice-activated services and video conferencing alongside electronic health records (EHRs) and other third-party systems.
In particular, MetroHealth selected Artisight’s virtual nursing, virtual sitting and other integrated AI solutions. The platforms connect directly to the system’s existing clinical workflows and vendors, including Epic, the company said.
Artisight CEO and co-founder Andrew Gostine told Fierce Healthcare the company was developed by clinicians for clinicians with the goal of improving job experiences and patient outcomes. “To see a leadership team that was heavily clinician-based get so early on engaged in the sales process was a really positive signal,” Gostine said.
The deployment will bring the technologies to nearly 500 patient rooms across five hospitals, beginning with MetroHealth’s Glick Center hospital. It will expand over the next two years to three other hospital locations and the Old Brooklyn, Ohio-based MetroHealth Rehabilitation Institute.
Jill Evans, MetroHealth’s chief nursing informatics officer and virtual care executive director, told Fierce Healthcare that AI-powered hospital rooms “represent a shift towards a more patient-centered, technology-driven healthcare.”
“These rooms will enable our care providers to deliver more attentive and personalized care for our patients and their families,” Evans said. “Our partnership with Artisight allows us to transform MetroHealth from a traditional setting into an innovative care space that supports our patients and families, staff efficiency, and satisfaction for both patients and staff.”
Evans said the system’s nurses are “really excited” about implementing the technologies. “[They] are really engaged and are contributing to how the design of this program is going to play out for us,” she said.
Gostine said Artisight’s virtual nursing component has seen 40% to 50% reduction in electronic medical record log-ins and “typically” 50% or greater reduction in nursing turnover.
“We have an artificial intelligence component that helps us to scale that to make sure virtual nurses using our platform can cover more nurses and more patients than using any other third-party virtual nursing platform,” Gostine said. “So it really is that combination that allows us to get a very valuable service to way more bedside nurses than any other competing platform.”
In late April, Artisight inked a similar deal to deploy its technology across UChicago Medicine.
More than 1,800 devices are set to be deployed across patient rooms, post-anesthesia care units, operating rooms and UChicago’s new 575,000-square-foot cancer care facility—slated to open in April 2027.
Gostine said more than 500 hospitals across the U.S. are under contract, and Artisight is focused on shortening deployment cycles to bring virtual programs online more quickly.
“Being able to bring each patient room online in parallel with many others in less than five minutes has always been a goal that we finally hit,” he said. “And that's what allows us to do this at scale with some very large customer sites that have north of 15,000 patient rooms each.”