Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS), Connecticut's largest academic health system, has announced a strategic partnership with Rad AI, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered radiology workflow company, to automate and streamline radiology reporting across more than 16 outpatient imaging centers and five hospital campuses.
The partnership addresses longstanding workflow challenges across a network managing more than 700,000 annual radiology exams. Radiologists across the system had faced administrative burdens including fragmented workflows, repetitive speech corrections, and manual data entry that slowed reporting and added operational complexity. YNHHS selected Rad AI for its ability to integrate with existing clinical and diagnostic systems, reduce documentation burden, and allow radiologists to remain focused on patient care rather than administrative tasks.
"As an academic medical center, our priority is always to advance the quality of patient care. In evaluating the future of our radiology infrastructure, we realized that standard software vendors couldn't keep pace with our evolving needs; we required a true co-development partner, capable of building alongside us," said Christopher Whitlow, MD, PhD, YNHHS Radiologist-in-Chief and Chair, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine. "Together, we're able to build specialized solutions while empowering our radiologists to focus entirely on clinical judgment and deliver clearer, more actionable insights for patient care."
The collaboration is structured as a co-development relationship rather than a standard software deployment. By combining Rad AI's documentation automation capabilities with YNHHS's clinical research expertise, the two organizations plan to pursue joint clinical research and develop specialized AI tools tailored to the health system's needs. The arrangement reflects a broader shift in how radiology reporting is approached, moving from an isolated administrative function toward an integrated tool serving the wider healthcare ecosystem.
"Radiologists have spent years adapting their workflows around systems that were never truly designed for the realities of modern radiology," said Doktor Gurson, co-founder and CEO of Rad AI. "As a company founded by radiologists, we understand how critical speed, accuracy and clarity are in high-volume environments, and this partnership reflects a growing recognition that reporting software must work naturally within the clinical workflow, not create more friction for the teams delivering care."
YNHHS comprises five hospitals, including Bridgeport, Greenwich, Lawrence + Memorial, Westerly, and Yale New Haven hospitals, along with several specialty networks and Northeast Medical Group. The health system is affiliated with Yale University and Yale Medicine, the largest academic multi-specialty practice in New England.
