As US health systems prioritize financial recovery and innovation in the wake of the pandemic, the pressure is on to re-evaluate their infrastructure and emerging technology investments, and to ensure their efforts not only support the future of healthcare delivery, but also provide services more efficiently and cost-effectively.
While there is no widely agreed-upon definition of a smart hospital, healthcare executives are nonetheless working toward their visions of the hospital of the future. The digital solutions that health systems are deploying today—like AI—are effectively steps in their evolution into smart hospitals.
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Several experts Insider Intelligence spoke with agree: A smart hospital triggers action. It effectively leverages AI and machine learning to not only learn from the data, but also act on the data by building automation around it. "A smart hospital takes in information from sensors, processes it in the data center, and then triggers a result," said Dr. Andrew Gostine, CEO of Artisight, an IoT sensor network provider. "In this way, a smart hospital will start providing clinical care the way clinicians do."
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While there is no widely agreed-upon definition of a smart hospital, healthcare executives are nonetheless working toward their visions of the hospital of the future. The digital solutions that health systems are deploying today—like AI—are effectively steps in their evolution into smart hospitals.
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Several experts Insider Intelligence spoke with agree: A smart hospital triggers action. It effectively leverages AI and machine learning to not only learn from the data, but also act on the data by building automation around it. "A smart hospital takes in information from sensors, processes it in the data center, and then triggers a result," said Dr. Andrew Gostine, CEO of Artisight, an IoT sensor network provider. "In this way, a smart hospital will start providing clinical care the way clinicians do."
Continue reading: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ai-in-healthcare-makes-hospitals-smart-2021-9
