Top hospitals ranked by AI innovation
Everyone in healthcare is talking about AI, and most healthcare organizations are doing something with it, even in pilots or small-scale use cases. But some hospitals and health systems are really leading the way.
WHY IT MATTERS
CB Insights launched this week the Hospital AI Readiness IndexThe scorecard is billed as a data-driven ranking that tracks leading health systems on how creative they are with their AI projects — and how well they are doing at deploying them to improve clinical and operational processes and outcomes.
The index uses CB Insights data to score hospitals on two factors: innovation and execution.
For the former, authors examined what they do to develop or acquire new AI and automation tools and whether they have, for example, specialized AI research departments. For the latter, they looked at AI implementations: where they are happening and what kind of real-world successes they enable.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, three overburdened health care systems top the list. Mayo Clinic is at the top, according to CB Insights, followed by Intermountain and Cleveland Clinic.
For example, Mayo was praised for filing more than 50 patents for AI tools in cardiology, oncology and elsewhere, and for investing in AI startups targeting a range of clinical and operational use cases.
Intermountain and Cleveland Clinic were recognized, respectively, for the former’s in-house development of an automated clinical decision-making system and for the latter’s many productive business relationships in the AI space, such as a “collaboration with PathAI focused on leveraging pathology algorithms to improve translational research and clinical care.”
Here is the full list of 25 health systems, according to CB Insights (note the shared 17th place):
1. Mayo Clinic
2. Intermountain Health
3. Cleveland Clinic
4. Kaiser Permanente
5. Mount Sinai
6. Providence
7. HCA Healthcare
8. Mass General Brigham
9. Community health systems
10. Johns Hopkins
11. CommonSpirit Health
12. Ascension Day
13. UPMC
14. Banner Health
15. AdventHealth
16. Stanford Health Care
17. Baylor Scott & White Health
17. UCLA Health
18. Tenet Health
19. CHI Monument
20. Strive for health
21. Trinity Health
22. Lifepoint Health
23. Houston Methodists
24. Scripps Health
ON THE RECORD
“We looked at the top private healthcare systems in the U.S. (based on hospital count) and ranked them based on how prepared they are for the rapidly changing AI landscape. We look at two key pillars: innovation and execution,” said researchers at CB Insights, announcing the new Hospital AI Readiness Index.
“The Innovation Score measures a health system’s track record of developing or acquiring new AI capabilities,” they explained. “This score is based on CB Insights data, including patents, acquisitions, and deal-making activity. It also takes into account the presence of an AI-dedicated research center.”
The Execution Score, meanwhile, measures “a health system’s ability to bring AI-powered products and services into clinical practice and deploy AI internally in business and back-office functions. This score is based on CB Insights data, including business relationships, media coverage of product launches, and earnings transcripts.”
Mike Miliard is Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare IT News
Email the author: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com
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