Hospital adopts technology in which its venture capital fund invested

Thanks to a partnership with Enroute, a startup part of its TGH Innoventures venture-capital program, Tampa General Hospital has added another high-tech, artificial-intelligence-powered patient management tool. The list already included the $13 million CareComm system, developed in conjunction with GE Healthcare.

Whereas CareComm was implemented to improve the hospital’s capacity by eliminating operational inefficiencies that increase the length of patients’ stays, Enroute is specifically targeted at patient transportation — admitting, moving and discharging patients. Under the old system, if a patient needed to be moved from their bed to an operating room, for example, the request would be routed through a dispatcher who manually schedules and directs transportation requests.