AI-powered healthcare automation platform care.ai announced an enterprise-wide partnership with New Jersey-based nonprofit hybrid care provider Virtua Health, under which Virtua will leverage care.ai’s virtual care offerings, including its Smart platform Care Facility and its Always-Aware ambient sensors.
care.ai’s Smart Care Facility platform includes a network of sensors distributed throughout a healthcare facility that monitors patients using AI, allowing the facility to collect real-time behavioral data for insights clinical and operational.
The Florida-based company’s AI-powered offerings will initially be used at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, and then ultimately implemented across all of Virtua Health’s acute care facilities.
The announcement comes about two months after the partners launched a virtual nurse pilot program on a medical-surgical unit that allows remote and bedside nurses to work in tandem.
Patients could also communicate with a nurse via a two-way optical camera, and their family members could participate in calls remotely.
“Our goal is not only to integrate cutting-edge technologies, but also to improve the human aspects of healthcare. By rapidly adopting optical cameras and ambient sensors, we are poised to significantly improve the patient and care team experience, ensuring a safer and more efficient service. and an empathetically connected healthcare experience,” Michael Capriotti, senior vice president of integration and strategic operations at Virtua Health, said in a statement.
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In 2022, care.ai has marked $27 million in funding led by multi-asset investment firm Crescent Cove Advisors.
Last year, the company announcement it was partnering with a Colorado-based remote patient monitoring company BioIntelliSense to integrate BioIntelliSense’s BioButton wearable device – a product used for 60-day continuous vital signs monitoring that captures temperature, respiratory rate and resting heart rate – into its Smart Care Facility platform.
care.ai also announced a partnership with the Texas Hospital Association to create statewide adoption of AI-based patient monitoring and partnership with Patient Engagement Platform Healedwhich allows patients to connect with healthcare teams via the interactive TV platform already present in patient rooms.
In June, care.ai announced that it was partnership with a multinational electronics company Samsung to integrate its Smart Care Facility platform into the tech giant’s displays for use by healthcare systems, enabling AI-powered patient monitoring.
Clinical care teams could also attend virtual visits via care.ai devices paired with Samsung displays.