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Chartis has acquired Leap AI, a vendor of generative artificial intelligence for operating room workflows, including surgical scheduling, real-time performance and resource utilization, and patient care monitoring tools and communications.
WHY IT MATTERS
The consulting and advisory firm's plan is to design and deploy healthcare AI with its clients, said Tom Kiesau, Chartis' chief AI and digital officer.
"As AI becomes industrialized across healthcare, organizations risk losing the ability to innovate against their unique friction points," Kiesau said in the announcement. "Off-the-shelf platforms can't match solutions built around an organization's specific challenges, data and operations."
The company's senior leaders have joined the Chartis Center for AI & Digital Transformation as Chartis Leap AI Studio.
"By combining that foundation with Leap AI's entrepreneurial energy and technical depth, we'll deliver AI solutions that meaningfully improve how healthcare organizations operate and how patients experience care," said Ali Paasimaa, senior partner and head of Chartis Leap AI, in the statement.
THE LARGER TREND
Chartis works with more than 1,900 providers, payers, technology innovators, retail companies and investors annually to transform healthcare operations, according to the firm.
With the acquisition of the DES Health Consulting team and the creation of the Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions three years ago, the firm has focused heavily on how helping healthcare organizations address workplace friction by improving employee retention and satisfaction for both physicians and nurses.
Kiesau told Healthcare IT News last year about his long-term vision for both clinical and operational AI – creating and evolving AI models and governance, and inventing new approaches in how healthcare is delivered.
"Demand is up, supply is down, so AI has implications on how we create more supply," he said on HIMSSCast. "We have to leverage new capabilities and transform the delivery model, and AI is part of every facet of that approach."
ON THE RECORD
"Leap AI brings deep healthcare expertise in AI development and product design, along with experience launching complex, first-of-their-kind solutions," Kiesau said in the statement.
Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
Email: afox@himss.org
Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.
