Newsweek Names Tampa General Hospital One of the World’s Best Smart Hospitals for 2025

It is the second consecutive year the academic health system has been recognized as a world leader in the use of technology, including artificial intelligence, to improve patient care.

Tampa, Fla. (Oct. 25, 2024) — Tampa General Hospital (TGH) has been recognized as one of the World’s Best Smart Hospitals for 2025 by Newsweek and Statista for its continued investment in technologies to increase efficiency, reduce costs and support the delivery of world-class patient care.

“Smart technology, from the lab to the clinic to the patient’s bedside is fundamental to our mission to being one of the most innovative health systems in the world,” said Scott Arnold, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital & Innovation Officer at Tampa General. “As such, we’re incredibly proud to be recognized as one the world’s best hospitals when it comes to harnessing technology to transform patient care today and we look forward to continuing this critical work.”

In the World's Best Smart Hospitals 2025, Newsweek recognized 350 hospitals across 28 countries for their standout work in implementing new medical technologies. A global survey of health-care professionals — as well as assessments of the facilities' use of technology and systems’ Joint Commission International accreditations — determined the overall rankings.

Tampa General’s Smart Hospital designation comes on the heels of several key investments that the academic health system has made in the past year with GE Healthcare, Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) and Nuance, among other healthcare technology leaders, including:

• Implementing GE Healthcare’s industry-leading imaging and ultrasound technology in its outpatient facilities to deliver more precise and timely diagnoses for patients, while enabling more effective treatment plans and improved patient outcomes.
• Deploying Palantir’s AI platform to deliver a Care Coordination Operating System to securely encode data to facilitate real-time situational awareness and large-language models into decision-support tools to synthesize data from nurse schedules, patient census, surgery schedules and other sources to streamline day-to-day operations.
• Utilizing, via a partnership with Nuance, DAX Copilot, an ambient listening tool that allows more than 500 physicians affiliated with Tampa General to securely capture patient visits, including details of symptoms, observations and experiences. Through the use of AI, this technology automatically converts multi-party conversations into specialty-specific clinical summaries, which frees up the provider to spend more time directly engaging with the patient.
• Launching Apella, a technology platform that leverages AI to enhance safety, increase efficiency and elevate the patient experience in the operating room. Apella offers perioperative teams a 360-degree view of operating rooms in real time to facilitate more informed decisions, respond to immediate needs, anticipate next steps and plan future operations.

This designation is the third “World’s Best” honor from Newsweek for Tampa General this year. The others include “Top 100 in U.S.” and “World’s Best Specialized Hospitals (Cancer).”