UChicago Medicine to Implement Smart Hospital Platform

UChicago Medicine has partnered with Artisight to deploy a smart hospital platform across operating rooms, patient rooms and post-anesthesia care units (PACUs), installing more than 1,800 devices systemwide, according to a press release.

Additionally, UCM will deploy the smart hospital platform — which supports continuous monitoring with voice recognition, computer vision and real-time location services — in the 575,000-square-foot freestanding cancer care facility scheduled to open in 2027. As one of the nation’s leading academic health systems, UCM is expanding its clinical footprint and investing in infrastructure to ensure high-quality care delivery, patient safety and enhanced clinical workflows.

UCM’s New Smart Hospital Platform Enhances Patient Safety and Clinical Efficiency

The smart hospital platform will allow UCM care teams to provide virtual nursing and sitting services as well as bedside TV engagement in patient rooms. Additionally, real-time location services will facilitate workflow automation, ambulatory support and infusion monitoring. In operating rooms and PACUs, the technology will allow for automated documentation and real-time visibility.

“We are focused on applying this technology in very targeted ways that support our care teams, enhance the patient experience, improve clinical outcomes and reinforce safety,” UCM Chief Information Officer Yeman Collier said in the press release. “Our goal is to integrate these tools into clinical workflows in a way that reduces administrative burden and allows our teams to spend more time on direct patient care.”

Collier told Fierce Healthcare that the new cancer center presents the opportunity to transform care delivery with technology: “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.”

Artisight’s Unified Smart Hospital Platform Offers UCM a Foundation to Build On

The applications that compose the smart hospital solution run on a single shared sensor fabric, avoiding additional administrative burdens for IT and clinical staff.

“The complexity of an academic medical center demands a platform, not a collection of tools,” Andrew Gostine, M.D., CEO and co-founder of Artisight, said in the press release. “By deploying a single infrastructure across every setting, UChicago Medicine ensures that every clinical team, every new facility and every AI capability that comes next is built on the same foundation.”