AI is running hospitals now

With massive investments going into agentic AI in healthcare, the AI influence is spreading

- SREYA DEB

EVERY SECTOR THE world over, almost without exception, has been touched with artificial intelligence. The healthcare industry is no stranger to AI, continuing its attempts to integrate AI into its functioning without compromising quality of care provided, and in many cases with great success. Bengaluru's multi-specialty hospital SuperHealth has recently launched SuperOS, an agentic AI operating system that is built to run a hospital from end-to-end. So far this system is only a month old, and has been launched at SuperHealth's flagship hospital in Bengaluru.

The SuperOS platform is designed as a full-stack system that aids in nearly every part of hospital operations, including outpatient consultations and diagnostics, surgical workflows, discharge summaries.

It can understand 15 Indian languages. While other Indian hospitals are yet to adopt such advanced operating systems, they have taken up other AI-assisted functions and aids to run alongside them during the process of treatment.

The St John's Research Institute in Bengaluru, in partnership with French startup H Company, is endeavouring to do something similar.