Artisight and UChicago Medicine collaborate to implement smart hospital platform

UChicago Medicine and health tech firm Artisight have announced a partnership to use the latter’s smart hospital system in a variety of settings across the academic health system.

Artisight provides artificial intelligence-based hospital infrastructure and optimisation. Over 1,800 devices will be installed in patient rooms, postanesthesia care units, operating rooms, and UChicago’s new 575,000-square-foot cancer treatment facility, set to open in April 2027, the companies said.

The new cancer care facility “offered a unique opportunity to redefine the delivery of technology for care,” UChicago Medicine Chief Information Officer Yeman Collier told Fierce Healthcare in an emailed statement.

“The ability to harness technology to enhance patient and family experience, reduce cognitive and administrative workload for the care team and ultimately enhance safety and outcomes are just a few of the goals that the partnership has set out to achieve,” Collier said.

The partnership was based on a “shared vision that the future of hospital care can’t rely on stressed clinicians and/or isolated technologies,” Andrew Gostine, Co-founder of Artisight, told Fierce Healthcare in an emailed statement.

“Academic health systems are a special type of hospital: they are complex environments where high-acuity patients are cared for, research is conducted, surgeries are scheduled, and cancer is treated,” Gostine said. “We came together with a fundamental belief: the hospital room and operating room should be a holistic system that senses activity, automates mundane tasks, and continually adds new AI-powered capabilities without having to rip and replace technology every couple of years.”

The collaboration, Gostine said, will see clinical environments with the platform installed “become more anticipatory, integrated and safe.”

“Through the use of ambient sensing, computer vision, and location services, the platform can facilitate fall prevention, early detection of clinical risks, enable virtual collaboration, and automate the process from admission to discharge,” Gostine said.

Collier said the roll-out permits “more personalization of the care experience while simultaneously enhancing patient safety.”

The Artisight platform was created to be the core of a smart hospital. The system brings together computer vision, a multi-sensor network, indoor positioning and real-time location systems, voice services, video conferencing features, and a hospital’s electronic health records (EHRs) and other systems.

Gostine said the company has almost 500 hospitals signed up across the country and is receiving “incredibly strong” feedback. “At one hospital, it prevented a wrong-site amputation,” he said. “At another, nursing turnover was reduced by 75% after six months, which is a game-changer in an industry that struggles with the retention and training of experienced nurses, one of the largest issues in health care today.”

Artisight is gaining major industry attention as it partners with UChicago Medicine to implement a next-generation smart hospital platform. This collaboration positions Artisight at the forefront of AI-powered healthcare transformation, aiming to improve operational efficiency and patient safety across the health system.

Artisight Partnership Overview

The agreement enables Artisight to deploy its Smart Hospital Platform across UChicago Medicine’s clinical network, covering patient rooms, operating rooms, and post-anesthesia care units. The rollout includes more than 1,800 devices integrated into hospital infrastructure, marking a large-scale digital transformation.

Through this collaboration, Artisight is helping UChicago Medicine unify fragmented technologies into a single, intelligent system that supports real-time clinical decision-making and workflow automation.

For Artisight, this partnership represents a major milestone in scaling its smart hospital platform across large academic health systems. For UChicago Medicine, the initiative supports its expansion strategy, including a new 575,000-square-foot cancer care facility expected to open in 2027.

The collaboration reflects a shared vision: replacing fragmented healthcare technologies with a unified, AI-driven infrastructure that enhances both patient experience and clinical outcomes.

As healthcare systems increasingly adopt AI and automation, Artisight is well-positioned to lead the smart hospital movement. The company’s platform offers scalability, interoperability, and measurable ROI—key factors driving adoption across hospitals globally.