OVERLAND PARK, Kansas—WellSky, a health and community care technology company, announced a new partnership with Google Cloud to leverage its cloud technologies, advanced data analytics tools, machine learning capabilities and its artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Vertex AI. The collaboration will provide WellSky with new tools to address current and future challenges across the care continuum.
Vertex AI gives developers and data scientists access to generative AI models, allowing them to build and customize their generative AI applications. Over the past few years, WellSky has invested in modernizing its IT infrastructure, and this partnership with Google Cloud will accelerate those efforts. The goal is to better anticipate client needs, enabling better care for patients, WellSky said.
“Innovative solutions that make use of AI will dramatically improve health care over the next decade,” said Ryan Terry, managing director, health care and life sciences, at Google Cloud. “WellSky is pioneering the integration of new AI tools, including responsible generative AI, to support human expertise, amplify capabilities and drive innovation across health care to impact better outcomes for providers, clinicians and patients.”
AI tools embedded into WellSky solutions will allow WellSky to automate repetitive tasks that can be done without human interaction. For example, WellSky plans to equip health care providers with immediate access to contextually relevant historical patient information, trends and anomalies to power more efficient, intelligent care during care transitions. Additionally, WellSky is automating portions of the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) assessment used in Medicare home health care—freeing caregivers to spend more time one-on-one with patients.
“AI technology can serve as a fundamental tool in making health care insights more accessible and meaningful for clinicians," said WellSky CEO Bill Miller. "As with any tool at our disposal, we will implement it in a way that is focused on helping caregivers improve patient outcomes, provide more effective services and increase efficiency. I see no shortage of possibilities in this emerging space.”
WellSky said while all companies have an obligation to implement AI in a responsible and thoughtful manner, nowhere is that more important than in health care. “We understand AI has an important role to play in health care innovation, but we also understand that we bear a considerable responsibility for how we implement AI in a secure and ethical way,” said Miller. “WellSky is steadfastly committed to following the principles of privacy, fairness, reliability, equity, transparency and accountability in the design, development and deployment of our solutions. We resolve to use AI in a manner that is aligned with our mission, is responsible, and provides value to our clients and the patients they serve.”
To learn more about how WellSky is transforming health and community care, visit wellsky.com.
