As the healthcare industry continues to embrace technological advancements, an increasing number of health systems are forging strategic partnerships with vendors and companies offering artificial intelligence tools that aim to enhance patient care and streamline operations and administrative tasks.
Here is a look at who health systems are partnering with for AI:
- Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health collaborated with Amazon Web Services to develop Project Heal, which employs AI and machine learning to detect emerging public health misinformation and score its threat to human health.
- Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare has partnered with technology company Brand Engagement Network to develop artificial intelligence assistants to help with primary care training.
- Renton, Wash.-based Providence and Microsoft are using artificial intelligence to scan massive amounts of patient data to improve cancer care. The health system is also working with Microsoft's Nuance to accelerate AI innovation at scale.
- Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare is using a generative AI tool for clinical documentation from Abridge to reduce documentation burden.
- Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine and Dell are working to develop a generative multimodal large language model for analyzing chest X-rays.
- Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care uses the DAX Copilot from Microsoft's Nuance. The healthcare organization recently announced it would be expanding its use of the tool across its entire organization.
- Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health signed a new partnership with Abridge to bring generative artificial intelligence to more than 12,000 affiliated physicians systemwide.
- Phoenix-based Banner Health is expanding a clinical artificial intelligence program from Regard to 33 hospitals in 2024 after a successful pilot.
- Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is teaming up with Google on a generative artificial intelligence project.
- New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health entered into a three-year partnership with health tech company Playback Health to use its AI-based platform, Notes, to generate EMR notes from patient and physician conversations.
- Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health is working with intelligent care enablement platform Memora Health to improve care delivery.
- Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has partnered with GE HealthCare to create AI models that can assess the pros and cons of immunotherapy.