The Mount Sinai Hospital Recognized as No. 4 on Newsweek’s World’s Best Smart Hospital 2021 List
Mount Sinai Morningside also ranked No. 26 globally for technological innovation
The Mount Sinai Hospital has earned top honors on Newsweek’s list of “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals 2021.” The hospital ranked No. 1 in the New York City metropolitan area and No. 4 globally among the most technologically advanced health care institutions. Mount Sinai Morningside also ranked No. 3 in the New York City metropolitan area, No. 18 in the United States, and No. 26 worldwide on the list. Newsweek’s best smart hospitals list recognizes the top 250 institutions across the world that have demonstrated leadership in the use of smart technologies, including AI, telemedicine, robotic surgery, digital imaging, smart buildings, and electronic health records.
“I am honored that Mount Sinai is being recognized for its accomplishments, especially during a year that presented some of the biggest challenges for hospitals across the world,” said Kristin Myers, MPH, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and Dean for Information Technology (IT) at the Mount Sinai Health System. “Through collaborative efforts spanning the entire Health System, we were able to enhance integrated technologies, maximize new data-driven opportunities, and improve cutting-edge treatment to care for thousands during a demanding and uncertain time.”
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mount Sinai conducted about 25 telehealth visits per day, or well under 1 percent of its appointments. The Health System now provides about 3,000 telehealth visits on average per day, or about 15 percent of all ambulatory care, said Bruce Darrow, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Senior Vice President of Information Technology, Deputy Chief Information Officer, and Chief Medical Information Officer for the Mount Sinai Health System.
“We experienced tremendous growth in telemedicine over a short period of time, but our team still worked tirelessly to support doctors delivering exceptional care to our patients,” said Darrow, who helped scale up infrastructure for virtual visits over the past year. “Information technology and other advanced tools—which remain a part of our larger ongoing mission—have enabled Mount Sinai to seamlessly coordinate efforts across departments, enhance patient flow, and quickly, effectively reach more patients through telehealth.”
The system’s Information Technology Department also provided support—ranging from establishing data feeds to facilitating secure cloud service—to assist the Mount Sinai Clinical Intelligence Center, a data science center dedicated to COVID-19 research that was established last spring in response to the pandemic. The Center has developed machine learning models to predict critical illness in COVID-19 patients; studied the use of wearable devices including the Apple Watch to detect COVID-19 symptoms and predict diagnosis; and teamed up with Google Nest and hospital operations to use the latest in video and audio technologies to monitor COVID-19 patients.
In partnership with the global data research company Statista Inc., Newsweek created the World’s Best Smart Hospital 2021 rankings based on worldwide recommendations from hospital managers and medical professionals, analyzing more than 13,000 votes in a survey on smart hospitals.
The Mount Sinai Hospital is the largest hospital of the Mount Sinai Health System, one of the nation’s leading health care systems, which is composed of eight hospitals and a large network of ambulatory centers and practices. The hospital has played a key role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic through unprecedented clinical research efforts involving deep collaborations between clinical teams throughout the system, which have resulted in greater understanding of COVID-19 and new protocols for its treatment and management.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. The Health System includes approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, a school of nursing, and schools of medicine and graduate school of biomedical sciences.
As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.
Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York and recognized as one of the world’s top Smart Hospital by Newsweek. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.
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