What Is a Smart Hospital?
From registration to imaging, smart hospitals deploy AI, IoT, 5G networks, and other technologies from edge to cloud for improved connectivity and secure data sharing to deliver better patient experiences, streamline workflows, and reduce costs.1
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Transforming Patient Care
Hospitals today are going through a digital transformation as they embrace technological advances to help improve patient care. While many of the endpoint solutions hospitals deploy bring new levels of precision and efficiency to clinical processes, integration across the hospital ecosystem and all points of care delivery—from registration to imaging, the operating room to the nurses’ station—is critical to fully realize the benefits available from a connected, intelligent hospital.
Smart hospitals are taking a holistic approach to infrastructure modernization, integrating digital and physical assets in a unified framework that ties the institution’s various clinical and business workflows and assets together. As a result, smart hospitals realize expansive data access across the health ecosystem, from hospital to clinic to provider and beyond, as well as accelerated clinical workflows, streamlined patient journeys, and the ability to deploy new lifesaving innovations as they are brought to market.
Smart Hospital Benefits
To deliver the kind of connected care patients expect from top institutions, smart hospitals enable seamless integration across technologies to aid in healthcare delivery.
Near-Real-Time Access to Data
Volumes of data generated by smart hospitals are transformed into actionable insights to inform and expedite decisions, deliver more-personalized care, and reduce costs. Data from sensors and other digital assets is fully integrated, enabling improved visibility into resource utilization and better management of fluctuating caseloads.
End-to-End Data Security
A defense-in-depth approach to security prevents system compromises, ensures patient privacy, and keeps smart hospitals in compliance with industry standards.
Connected Care across the Healthcare Network
Integration with specialty clinics, primary care providers, and other healthcare venues allows patients to receive the right care at the right time and place, anywhere in the community. Patient experiences and outcomes benefit from operational efficiencies, automated workflows, and connectivity between systems, devices, assets, data, and people.
Real-Time Computing
Real-time computing is critical in conditions requiring prompt and accurate insights on data. Intel® real-time technology, with integrated Intel® Time Coordinated Computing (Intel® TCC) features and support for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), enables smart hospital solutions that require a high degree of coordination, within and across networked medical and other devices.
Building a Foundation for the Next Era of Healthcare
Learn how Intel hardware and software technologies deliver performance, intelligence, end-to-end security, and seamless connectivity across the smart hospital infrastructure for improved resource utilization and better patient experiences.
Smart Hospital Success Stories
Smart hospitals are leveraging Intel® hardware and software and Intel-powered partner solutions to usher in a new era of healthcare.
Connecting Data Sources for Remote Patient Care
Discover how Medical Informatics Corp.’s Sickbay platform and Intel® Optane™ enable virtual ICU monitoring in today’s smart hospitals.
Leveraging AI for Ultrasound Performance Gains
Explore how FUJIFILM VisualSonics employed the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit and Intel® Core™ processors to achieve 41.4x faster inferencing in ultrahigh-frequency ultrasound applications. Read the whitepaper for more detail, including workloads and configurations. Results may vary.
Addressing Value-Based Healthcare with Data Analytics
Learn how Montefiore Health System’s Semantic Data Lake solution, running on Intel® Xeon® processors and built on Intel® architecture, uses predictive analytics and machine learning to provide clinicians with near-real-time insights about patient risks, critical care situations, and optimal treatment plans.
Protecting Patient Privacy with Advanced Security
Find out how AOK – Die Gesundheitskasse, a statutory health insurance company, is enhancing patient data protection and advanced privacy management with the power of Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX).
Using AI in Imaging to Detect Serious Conditions Sooner
As part of its Critical Care Suite, GE Healthcare employed the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit to introduce a first-of-its-kind AI algorithm that is embedded on the X-ray imaging device. This GE Healthcare solution can flag critical cases and prioritize them for radiologists, expediting time to diagnosis and enhancing patient care.
Delivering Connected Care
A model for the future of healthcare, smart hospitals apply AI and analytics to their connected infrastructure to transform data from devices and workflows into actionable insights. This data-driven approach enables faster, more-precise diagnostics, more informed decision-making, and better patient care.
Intelligent Medical Imaging
Getting high-resolution medical imaging —CT scans, MRIs, nuclear imaging, and other imaging types—quickly into the hands of clinicians and radiologists is critical for diagnosis and treatment. High-performance edge computing solutions support near-real-time processing and analysis of these data-intensive medical imaging workloads. High bandwidth private 5G connectivity enables distributed access to data across form factors. AI helps to reveal new ways to streamline workflows, enhance performance, and improve image accuracy.
Intelligent Diagnostics and Monitoring
More intelligence in devices and at the edge is driving patient-centered, data-centric care to new levels. Advanced AI and predictive analytics applied to patient data, combined with increased speed of data sharing with 5G connectivity, deliver actionable insights to accelerate diagnoses and treatment options, improve workflow efficiency, and deliver care wherever the patient may need it.
Labs
Innovations and automation applied in smart hospital labs reduce errors, increase efficiency, support advanced and specialized testing, and deliver faster turnaround times. System integration with the hospital’s unified technology platform gets results to clinicians faster, accelerating diagnoses and the delivery of care.
Healthcare Information Technology (IT)
Evolving today’s management of the health IT environment inside a hospital or lab system is critical for delivering and sustaining the long-term benefits offered by edge computing, AI, IoT, and more. Innovative compute platforms and flexible, extensible, and scalable IT infrastructures are needed to capture, process, transfer, and store data. Enabling performant applications and workloads to reliably work together simplifies management of the increasing flow of data and enables extraction of insights that can improve speed of service and health system productivity.
Intel Solutions for Telehealth
The demand for smart, connected, and performant telehealth solutions has never been greater. Telehealth solutions, from patient consultation applications to advanced patient monitoring systems, are improving access to care and making clinicians more efficient and productive. When they take advantage of edge analytics, cloud-based data gathering, and advanced connectivity, they can surround the patient in care from the first point of contact to the completion of treatments.
Building a Smart Hospital Powered by Intel
Intel and our ecosystem partners use a common, standards-based architecture and take a collaborative approach to development. Selecting and standardizing on Intel® technologies today allows smart hospitals to access a vast selection of partner solutions and position themselves to embrace future healthcare innovations as they emerge.
Intel® Smart Edge
This portfolio of software offerings supports edge compute nodes that power 5G wireless connections across hospital infrastructure while driving new advanced AI, analytics, and sensor technologies. In a smart hospital setting, Intel® Smart Edge provides an integrated voice, patient data, and video platform to create a high-quality, real-time communication channel hospital wide.
Intel® AI and Graphics Accelerators
Intel® accelerators drive near-real-time processing of AI/graphics workloads at the edge to expedite workflows and inform decision-making.
Advanced Networking Infrastructure (5G)
Powered by Intel throughout the ecosystem, 5G and other high-speed networks enable fast, seamless workflows; data accessibility; and communications within and outside the hospital campus.
Robotics
A host of partner robotics solutions are driven by Intel® technologies in smart hospitals, including registration kiosks, surgical tools, and hospital lab medication- dispensing systems.
Intel vPro®
Intel vPro® processors, equipped with Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT), help reduce overall PC maintenance and administrative costs with features to remotely discover, repair, and help protect networked computing assets. Intel vPro® also offers Intel® Hardware Shield, which augments antivirus software and other security applications.
oneAPI and the Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
Evolving use cases in healthcare have created a demand for heterogeneous computing. Heterogeneous systems from edge to cloud are driving the need for a common programming language. oneAPI provides unified programming and allows code reuse across architectures and vendors.
Frequently Asked Questions
A smart hospital deploys AI, IoT, 5G networks, and other technological advances from edge to cloud to seamlessly coordinate and align operations for accelerated and enhanced patient care. From registration to imaging, the operating room or the nurses’ station, the improved connectivity and breadth of data generated can deliver valuable insights to improve patient experiences, streamline clinician workflows, and reduce costs.
Seamless integration across infrastructure is fundamental to building a smart hospital. With the use of technologies like AI, IoT, and 5G networks from the edge to the cloud, achieving high levels of interoperability enables agility, broad data sharing and near-real time communications that define the smart hospital model.
Hospitals today are generating unprecedented volumes of clinical and business data, yet many lack the integrated infrastructure needed to fully optimize data in vitally important diagnostic and treatment decisions. Smart hospitals integrate assets and resources across the environment for near-real-time data access and analysis, informing and accelerating patient journeys, increasing operational efficiencies, and optimizing resource utilization for better experiences and outcomes.
Intel is the trusted leader in enabling technology that empowers healthcare use cases and the healthcare industry. With a robust partner ecosystem and vast hardware and software portfolio, Intel® technology provides the agility, scale, and design flexibility smart hospitals need to deploy new clinical solutions as they emerge—enhancing patient journeys and outcomes and driving the next generation of healthcare innovations.
Product and Performance Information
Intel offers a line of products and services that device manufacturers, software vendors, electronic medical records providers, and other important healthcare technology companies can use to create smart hospital solutions.