Newsweek Names Sheba Medical Center a World's Best Smart Hospital for Third Consecutive Year

Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest medical center, announced today it has been named by Newsweek among the top 20 “World’s Smartest Hospitals” for the third year in a row, ranking 14th on this year’s list

These rankings recognize Sheba’s achievements over the past year, including the design and rapid adoption of a range of digital health technologies and AI platforms in clinical practice. Through its innovation arm ARC (Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate), digital and smart solutions incubated at Sheba are not only used in-house, but also by global hospitals to help shape the future of healthcare.

“Sheba Medical Center is proud to be among the leading Smart Hospitals in the world on the Newsweek ranking,” said Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, Chief Transformation Officer and Chief Innovation Officer at Sheba Medical Center and Director and Founder of ARC Innovation. “Through our transformation and innovation platform ARC, we see technology, and specifically digital health, as a strategic enabler that will allow us to transform operations and patient care, allowing us to become much more effective, efficient and centered on human needs.”

Newsweek’s Smart Hospital rankings, produced together with Statista, include an evaluation of candidate hospitals by senior officials in the digital and information fields, a peer survey of directors and experts in the field of smart hospitals, and an international survey of senior professionals in the field. Hospitals are ranked by proficiency and leadership in using electronic functionalities, telemedicine, digital imaging, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The specialty ward rankings include an international peer survey of over 40,000 specialists, professionals and hospital directors from more than 20 countries, evaluation by world-renowned medical experts, and patient reports of medical treatment satisfaction.