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Get Well and RhythmX AI, two companies in the SymphonyAI portfolio, announced this week that they plan to merge, bringing their respectve patient engagement and precision medicine to a new combine company called GW RhythmX.
The new venture will use artificial intelligence to surface insights that can improve health system operations and patient outcomes, according to SymphonyAI Group. RhythmX AI founder Deepthi Bathina will lead the combined company as its chief executive officer; Michael O’Neil, Get Well founder and CEO, will become vice chair.
WHY IT MATTERS
RhythmX AI, a generative-AI-based platform for physicians and health systems, and patient engagement platform Get Well, together serve 150 health systems and 85 million patients, including eight million veterans, according to an announcement on Tuesday.
Building a precision care AI platform will unite healthcare data across more than 10 sources, SymphonyAI Group said. It is expected to combine electronic health record data and clinical policies and clinical guidelines with financial, payer and social data in order to improve outcomes for patients and clinicians and financial performance for health systems.
RhythmX AI's platform, which launched in 2023, is EHR-agnostic. The company stated that it has delivered more than 300,000 uniquely personalized treatment recommendations and optimized coding and billing. Analytics have predicted disease progression and identified evidence of undiagnosed patient conditions.
The combined company brings the needed resources, technology and scale together to enable health systems to "thrive in the new era of patient-centric, AI-powered precision care," Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, the group's chairman, said in a statement.
THE LARGER TREND
SymphonyAI Group acquired Get Well in 2024 with the intention of using predictive and generative AI technology to enhance patient engagement experiences. Get Well has helped its customers reduce hospital readmissions by more than 65%, capture new revenue and improve patient satisfaction, the group said in a statement.
Earlier this year, Get Well launched Opal, an AI patient assistant for post-discharge support, by leveraging RhythmX technology.
The AI assistant enabled customers, including Adventist Healthcare, Ascension, UMass Memorial, BayCare and LifeBridge Health, to track real-time discharge progress and automate post-discharge check-ins, improve care plan adherence and help address discharge delays, such as transportation issues.
"Joining SAIGroup has accelerated Get Well’s access to data, technology and talent to unleash the power of genAI and agentic AI on reducing friction for patients, empowering caregivers and delivering more value for health systems at every point in the care continuum," O'Neil said in a statement at the time.
RhythmX AI has also partnered with other tech companies, most recently with Microsoft, to improve clinical AI capabilities in Dragon Copilot.
ON THE RECORD
"With our companies coming together as one, we have the opportunity to forever change the way medicine is practiced," Bathina said in a statement. "By orchestrating all of healthcare's data into one platform of actionable intelligence, we're helping clinicians focus on what matters most, giving patients a more connected experience and enabling health systems to achieve new levels of operational and financial performance."
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Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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