Eyal Zimlichman gives us an insight into one of the world ' s most digitally advanced hospitals , and its plans for the future
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Eyal Zimlichman gives us an insight into one of the world ' s most digitally advanced hospitals , and its plans for the future
Sheba Medical Centre in Tel Aviv is the largest hospital in Israel . It ' s also widely regarded as one of the best smart hospitals in the world , and Newsweek magazine has ranked it among the top 10 hospitals in the world three years in a row .
Israel ' s healthcare system operates via four health maintenance organisations ( HMOs ), all of which are non-profit and are funded through the government . Most hospital care is provided by hospitals that are either public , non-for-profit hospitals , or government hospitals , of which Sheba Medical Centre is one .
Professor Eyal Zimlichman is the Chief Medical Officer as well as the Chief Innovation Officer at Sheba . He explains that Sheba ' s campus has four hospitals under the same management : for acute care , rehabilitation , children , and a woman ' s hospital , along with a cancer centre . " We see about 1.6 million patients every year , which is a large part of the Israeli population . We work with all four HMOs across the entire country , as well as people coming from foreign countries ."
Crucially , Sheba Medical Center is very much a digital hospital . Having been completely paperless for almost 20 years , its next ambition is to become a fully AI-based hospital by 2030 . " We ' re working very hard towards that goal and have been for many years ," Zimlichman says .
44 March 2022