To support everyone from front-line docs to backroom administrative staff, healthcare providers are increasingly keen on adopting the AI tools that will enable them to mine and analyze data in the name of consistent improvement and precision.
To that end, Oliveai recently announced the acquisition of Salt Lake City-based Empiric Health, an AI-powered clinical analytics and services company that will give Olive access to operating room data and move another step toward connecting healthcare's myriad data systems.
"Expanding Olive's presence into the operating room means working alongside humans to catalog data and then learning from successful surgeries to predict the best pathways of care," said Sean Lane, CEO of Olive, in a statement. "Through her growing network of healthcare intelligence, Olive is always learning. Expanding her knowledge base with Empiric Health's clinical analysis is a natural next step toward becoming an even more powerful data engine that improves healthcare.”
According to Olive, the companies' combined AI capabilities will further reveal life-changing outcomes that act as a catalyst for reshaping the state of healthcare. Where Empiric Health fits in is that its AI scans and captures thousands of data points, essentially making Olive smarter by expanding her knowledge base. Combined, both organizations will continue to further Olive's mission of unleashing a trillion dollars by connecting healthcare.
"It is exciting to see the evolution of Empiric Health's clinical analytics platform since originating from an Intermountain Healthcare program in 2012," said Rick Adam, CEO of Empiric Health. "Today the AI-powered solution is changing physician behavior and improving surgical results across the country.”
According to the company, customers are already identifying value as a result of Olive's new capabilities, and through the acquisition, Olive will expand its capabilities for supply chain and clinical analysis for surgeries.
"The findings from Empiric Health assist our providers in overcoming the traditional problem of surgical variation due to individual patient differences," said Simon Payne, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Clinical and Operational Transformation of SCL Health. "It provides trust to our surgeons through transparency and meaningful insights to evaluate variability and enhance quality excellence and perioperative efficiency.”
Added Sean Lane, ”Looking at the industry in general, there is a vast amount of variation even within a single hospital when analyzing the surgical suite. That’s where we expect to see continued value from the addition of Empiric Health to Olive."