Israel’s largest hospital has partnered with OpenAI in a collaboration that will see advanced artificial intelligence deployed across the facility, with the aim of supporting clinicians and researchers.
The partnership will give staff at Tel Aviv’s Sheba Medical Centre secure access to OpenAI’s healthcare AI platform, allowing them to rapidly search millions of peer-reviewed medical studies, clinical guidelines and public health sources to support clinical decision-making.
The scheme, led by Sheba’s ARC Innovation Centre – which serves as a testing hub for health technology – forms part of the hospital’s ambition to become a fully AI-powered medical centre. The platform will also incorporate Sheba’s own clinical protocols and care pathways, ensuring recommendations reflect the hospital’s approved standards.
Professor Eyal Zimlichman, Sheba’s chief innovation and AI officer and the founder of ARC, said the initiative marked “a decisive step” in the hospital’s transformation.
“We are not just implementing AI in medicine but building a fully AI-powered hospital,” he said.
“Physicians, nurses and researchers at Sheba will now have a powerful clinical reasoning tool at their fingertips, one that surfaces the best available evidence in seconds, reduces administrative burden and burnout, and frees clinicians to focus on what matters most: their patients.”
Beyond supporting clinical decisions, it is hoped the platform will help to automate routine administrative tasks and reduce paperwork.
As OpenAI’s first hospital partner outside the US, Sheba will provide feedback and clinical insights that could enable to tech firm to develop new AI tools for healthcare organisations elsewhere.
Hospital officials stressed that patient information will remain protected through enterprise-grade security measures and that OpenAI’s models will not be trained on Sheba’s data. All medical decisions will continue to be made by healthcare professionals.
Implementation across Sheba’s clinical, research and operational teams is expected to begin in the coming months.
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