How Sheba Medical Center became OpenAI’s first international hospital partner
Sheba Medical Center in Israel has partnered with OpenAI to integrate AI tools into its clinical, research, and operational workflows. The hospital aims to become fully AI-powered by 2030 by providing staff with access to ChatGPT for Healthcare and custom agent-building capabilities.
Why it matters
This partnership represents a significant step in the global adoption of generative AI within hospital systems, moving beyond administrative tasks into clinical and surgical applications.
Aerial view of the Sheba Medical Center campus in Tel HaShomer, Israel, which brings together acute-care, pediatric, rehabilitation, cancer and other specialty facilities. Credit: Sheba Medical Center
OpenAI’s first international hospital partnership is taking shape at a non-English-speaking medical center that does not use electronic health records (EHRs) from Epic, the prominent U.S. electronic health record vendor. That institution is Sheba Medical Center, the Israel-based medical center with its own 50-plus-person AI Center within ARC, its innovation arm.
The partnership with OpenAI is part of Sheba’s aim to become “ AI-powered” by 2030 . “We really want to democratize AI tools for the campus, for the people working in the hospital, whether they are clinicians or other professions,” said Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin, head and CTO of Sheba’s AI Center in an interview at Ai4 in Las Vegas.
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