Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health is partnering with Vega Health to deploy an AI-powered patient screening tool for its hospital-at-home program.
The collaboration marks Baptist’s first integration of Vega Health’s AI infrastructure platform, according to a July 9 news release from Vega Health, a platform that aims to help health systems deploy and monitor AI tools.
The initial use case targets Baptist Hospital at Home, which launched in February at Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville. Vega Health’s large language model tool scans inpatient charts against Baptist Health’s own eligibility criteria to surface candidates for hospital-level care at home, then routes them to clinical staff for evaluation.
“Accurate eligibility screening is fundamental to the program as it prioritizes patient safety and allows the program to grow,” Alison Bartfield, MD, medical director of Baptist Physician Partners Senior Strategy and Baptist Hospital at Home, said in the release. “Vega Health started with our criteria, our patients, and our clinical context.”
The Vega Health platform operates inside Baptist Health’s existing secure cloud environment, keeping patient data in house and validating AI performance against the health system’s own population rather than external benchmarks.
Beyond the Hospital at Home screening tool, Baptist Health and Vega Health plan to apply the platform to two more use cases: surfacing medication history during emergency department-to-inpatient transitions and using predictive analytics to help care teams flag health concerns earlier, the release said.
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