UChicago Medicine and Artisight inked a partnership to deploy the health tech company's smart hospital platform across multiple care settings within the academic health system.
Artisight offers artificial intelligence-driven hospital infrastructure and optimization solutions. More than 1,800 devices will be deployed across patient rooms, post-anesthesia care units, operating rooms and UChicago’s new 575,000-square-foot cancer care facility—which is slated to open in April 2027, the organizations said.
UChicago Medicine Chief Information Officer Yeman Collier told Fierce Healthcare in an emailed statement that the new cancer center “presented a remarkable opportunity to reimagine the provision of technology” used in care.
“Being able to leverage technology to improve the experience for patients and families, reduce cognitive and administrative burden for the care team, and improve safety and clinical outcomes are just a few of the objectives underpinning the partnership,” Collier said.
The partnership was driven by a “a shared understanding that the future of hospital care can’t depend on overburdened clinicians and/or disconnected technologies,” Artisight CEO and co-founder Andrew Gostine, M.D., told Fierce Healthcare in an emailed statement.
“Academic health systems operate at a unique level of complexity, balancing high-acuity patient care, research, surgical coordination and cancer treatment,” Gostine said. “Our organizations aligned around a core belief: hospital rooms and operating rooms should function as a unified system that can sense activity, automate routine tasks and continuously deliver AI-enabled capabilities without requiring the system to rip and replace technology every few years.”
Through the partnership, according to Gostine, clinical settings with the deployed platform “will become more proactive, coordinated and safety-oriented.”
“By leveraging ambient sensing, computer vision and location-based services, the platform supports fall prevention, enables earlier identification of clinical risks, facilitates virtual collaboration and streamlines operations from admission through discharge,” Gostine said.
Collier said the implementation will allow “more personalization of the care experience while simultaneously enhancing patient safety.”
Artisight's platform was designed as a central hub for a smart hospital. It integrates computer vision, a multi-sensor network, indoor positioning and real-time location systems, voice-activated services and video conferencing along with a hospital's electronic health records (EHRs) and other third-party systems.
Gostine said nearly 500 hospitals across the nation are under contract and the company has seen “incredibly strong” feedback. “At one site, the technology helped prevent a wrong-site amputation,” he said. “At another, nursing turnover dropped by 75% within six months, which is a profound shift in an industry where retaining and training experienced nurses is one of the biggest challenges facing health systems.”