WellSpan Health has collaborated with General Catalyst, becoming the first transformation partner to the latter’s Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo).
This latest development marks an expansion of a collaboration launched in 2023.
The partnership combines WellSpan’s operational healthcare experience with HATCo’s access to emerging technology for enhancing the delivery of healthcare by developing new AI technologies.
The initiative targets transformation in three core areas. It aims to automate administrative tasks and deploy advanced digital tools, enabling clinical staff to care for patients.
In addition, the collaboration will use digital health innovations, AI, and analytics to provide proactive care.
It also seeks to create adaptive financial strategies in response to reimbursement changes and cost pressures while preserving the community service capacity.
The partnership intends to reclaim more than 400,000 annual clinical hours through AI-driven applications and has set a goal to improve business performance over five years.
WellSpan Health president and CEO Roxanna Gapstur said: "At WellSpan, we're driving transformation from the inside out, leveraging our team’s deep clinical expertise and proven innovation capabilities to reimagine how care is delivered.
“What originated as idea sharing and access to emerging start-up innovations has evolved into this new and expanded collaboration, representing a comprehensive co-creation partnership where we're jointly developing and scaling breakthrough solutions. This partnership will serve as a cornerstone of our five-year strategy to simplify and personalise healthcare for our patients and clinical teams.”
HATCo president Daryl Tol said: “The solutions we develop together have the potential to strengthen WellSpan and offer a model that other health systems can learn from as they work to improve outcomes, manage costs, and support the well-being of their care teams.”
Both organisations will initially concentrate on creating sustainable solutions to address the ongoing staffing shortages that impact the well-being of the workforce and healthcare access.
