Cleveland-based MetroHealth and Artisight have partnered to deploy the health tech company’s smart hospital platform across multiple facilities within the safety net health system.
Artisight provides hospital infrastructure and optimization solutions powered by artificial intelligence. The company’s platform is designed to be the central hub for smart hospitals. Integrate computer vision, multi-sensor networks, indoor positioning and real-time location systems, voice-activated services, and video conferencing along with electronic health records (EHRs) and other third-party systems.
Specifically, MetroHealth selected Artisight’s virtual nursing, virtual sitting, and other integrated AI solutions. The company says these platforms connect directly to the system’s existing clinical workflows and vendors such as Epic.
Artisight CEO and co-founder Andrew Gostine told Fierce Healthcare that the company was built by clinicians, for clinicians, with the goal of improving the work experience and patient outcomes. “It was a very positive sign that the clinician-led leadership team started being involved in the sales process so early,” Gostin said.
The rollout will bring the technology to approximately 500 patient rooms across five hospitals, starting with MetroHealth’s Glick Center Hospital. Over the next two years, it will expand to three other hospitals and the Old Brooklyn, Ohio-based MetroHealth Rehabilitation Institute.
Jill Evans, chief nursing information officer and executive director of virtual care at MetroHealth, told Fierce Healthcare that AI-powered patient rooms “represent a shift to more patient-centered, technology-driven care.”
“These rooms will allow healthcare providers to provide more sensitive and personalized care to patients and their families,” Evans said. “Our partnership with Artisight has enabled us to transform MetroHealth from a traditional environment into an innovative care space that supports patients and families, staff efficiency, and both patient and staff satisfaction.”
Evans said the system’s nurses are “really excited” about implementing the technology. “(They) are really engaged and contributing to how the design of this program plays out for us,” she said.
Gostin said Artisight’s virtual nursing component has reduced electronic medical record logins by 40% to 50% and reduced nursing turnover by “typically” more than 50%.
“We have an artificial intelligence component that helps us scale to ensure that virtual nurses using our platform can cover more nurses and more patients than using other third-party virtual nursing platforms,” Gosteen said. “So this combination allows us to deliver a highly valuable service to far more bedside nurses than any other competing platform.”
In late April, Artisight signed a similar agreement to implement its technology throughout the University of Chicago School of Medicine.
More than 1,800 devices will be installed in patient rooms, post-anesthesia care units, operating rooms, and a new 575,000-square-foot cancer treatment facility in Chicago scheduled to open in April 2027.
Gostin said more than 500 hospitals across the U.S. have signed up, and Articyte 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 other patient rooms within five minutes has always been a goal we have achieved,” he said. “That allows us to do this at scale at some of our very large customer sites, each with over 15,000 patient rooms.”
