THE WORLD'S BEST HOSPITALS SMART 2024

MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY ARE entwined, as some of the most significant medical advances have been made possible only through technological innovation.

- Nancy Cooper

Today, we are seeing the rise of smart technologies that share medical information faster and more accurately while providing improved patient care.

For the third year, Newsweek and Statista are proud to share the World's Best Smart Hospitals 2024. This list awards 330 hospitals from 28 countries that stand out for their use of electronic functionalities, telemedicine, digital imaging, AI and robotics. See Newsweek.com/ wbsh-2024 for the full list; a smaller number appears in print due to space constraints.

Hospitals on our list include well-respected facilities like Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital in the U.S., Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Germany, Samsung Medical Center in South Korea and Sheba Medical Center in Israel. We hope our ranking is helpful in finding the right hospital for yourself or a loved one.

METHODOLOGY

Smart Hospitals use state-of-the-art technology to fundamentally rethink how care is delivered within the health system. Taking advantage of these new technologies can not only improve care delivery outcomes and efficiencies within the hospital but can help to drive health goals around prevention, population health and quality of life outcomes.

To provide more transparency in hospitals' efforts to implement digital health technologies around the globe, Statista and Newsweek have partnered to identify the World's Best Smart Hospitals.

The third edition of World's Best Smart Hospitals awards the top 330 hospitals in the field. See Newsweek.com/wbsh-2024 for the full list. The ranking process is based on three main steps:

1_ INTERNATIONAL ONLINE SURVEY: Hospital managers and health care professionals with knowledge about smart hospitals were asked to recommend leading smart hospitals across the globe.