OSF HealthCare is expanding its use of RapidAI’s clinical AI platform to all 18 hospitals across its network, following deployments at selected sites.

Enterprise AI expansion

OSF HealthCare is expanding RapidAI’s clinical AI platform across all 18 hospitals in its network, extending access to AI-supported medical imaging and patient management beyond its initial deployments.

The US healthcare system said the expansion follows its experience at selected sites, where it reported improvements in treatment times and more consistent identification of patients who may have suffered a stroke and require intervention.

The expanded partnership will focus on enterprise integration, governance, analytics and optimisation of the platform across OSF hospitals.

RapidAI’s technology analyses medical images and provides automated measurements, disease characterisation and visualisation intended to give clinicians additional information when assessing patients.

“Every community we serve should benefit from the same advanced technology, whether a patient enters one of our largest medical centers or a rural, critical access hospital,” said Arun Talkad, neurologist and director of stroke care at OSF HealthCare.

Talkad said OSF’s experience with RapidAI at selected hospitals had demonstrated an opportunity to introduce additional AI applications and extend the technology across the wider health system.

AI-supported stroke care

Stroke is a major focus of RapidAI’s clinical AI technology, with the platform designed to support clinicians by analysing medical imaging and providing information that can help inform treatment decisions.

The company said its technology goes beyond alerting care teams to potential findings, with automated measurements and disease characterisation intended to provide additional clinical context.

The wider Rapid Enterprise platform also covers neuro, cardiac and vascular care, trauma and oncology. It combines clinical AI with 3D visualisation, care coordination, enterprise analytics and longitudinal patient management.

OSF’s expansion therefore represents a move from individual or site-level AI deployment towards a health-system-wide approach.

The partnership also includes Rapid Edge Cloud infrastructure, which RapidAI said is designed to maintain access to clinical decision-support and care coordination tools during network or cloud outages.

Scaling clinical AI across hospitals

Karim Karti, CEO of RapidAI, said the partnership demonstrated how AI could be deployed across an entire healthcare organisation.

“OSF is leading by example, implementing AI across its enterprise to help teams work at their best, reduce variation and make informed decisions,” Karti said.

The companies did not disclose financial terms for the expanded partnership.

The announcement reflects the growing use of clinical AI platforms beyond individual applications, as healthcare providers look to integrate imaging analysis and decision-support tools across multiple hospitals and specialties.

For OSF, extending RapidAI to all 18 hospitals means clinicians across its network will have access to the same platform, rather than limiting deployment to selected sites.