Sheba Medical Center

20 stories about Sheba Medical Center
Avner Halperin Sheba

"We're the first hospital outside the US that gets the latest capabilities of OpenAI"

01.11.26|Amy Shapiro
Sheba Impact CEO and ARC Director Avner Halperin details the hospital's ambitions to implement artificial intelligence across all wards by 2027.
ביל אקמן מייסד ומנכ"ל פרשינג סקוור קפיטל

Bill Ackman in Israel: "The country could become one of the best economies in the world"

22.10.26|Sophie Shulman
Speaking at Sheba Medical Center’s ARC summit, the Pershing Square founder cited Israel’s concentration of talent as a potential advantage in the age of AI. Ackman also discussed his plans for an AI-native brain research institute following his daughter’s stroke.
מכירת ארק של שיבא

Sheba sells ARC innovation arm to Redesign Health

22.10.26|Sophie Shulman
The deal transfers management of ARC’s global network and the rights to establish new hospital innovation centers to the U.S. healthcare venture builder, while Sheba retains its stakes in portfolio companies.
מוסף שבועי 22.6.23 אסתר ברק לנדס בתו של נשיא בית המשפט העליון לשעבר אהרן ברק

New Israeli fund seeks $40 million to invest in mental health and longevity

19.10.26|Golan Hazani
Founded by Esther Barak Landes and Adi Ostry Matalon, Alma will back technologies spanning mental health, suicide prevention, digital therapeutics, brain health and dementia. Sheba Medical Center will serve as its strategic partner.
סם אלטמן כמנכ"ל חברת OpenAI לצד בית חולים בית החולים שיבא תל השומר

From Pfizer to OpenAI: Why Israel’s medical data is becoming a global technology asset

29.07.26|Elihay Vidal
Decades of digital health records have turned Israel into an attractive laboratory for AI companies, but experts warn that innovation must be balanced with patient trust and privacy.
סם אלטמן כמנכ"ל חברת OpenAI לצד בית חולים בית החולים שיבא תל השומר

OpenAI picks Israel's Sheba as first hospital outside the U.S. for healthcare AI

28.07.26|Sophie Shulman
The strategic partnership gives Sheba Medical Center early access to OpenAI's healthcare AI models, allowing physicians to test cutting-edge clinical tools before they are rolled out more broadly. 
Rise hub Sderot

Sderot opens $3 million innovation center focused on health and emergency technologies

01.07.26|CTech
The RiSE.Hub project seeks to attract startups developing AI-driven solutions for resilience, rehabilitation and mental healthcare. 
אבנר הלפרין מנכ״ל שיבא אימפקט

“We're too slow in the adoption of AI technologies in healthcare”

05.05.26|Zachy Hennessey
Sheba Impact CEO Avner Halperin explains why AI is becoming central to telehealth, from triage and intake to expanding access to care while keeping clinicians in the loop. 
אבנר הלפרין מנכ״ל שיבא אימפקט ומרכז החדשנות ARC

Innovation in a vacuum: Why AI demands global connectivity

13.01.26|Avner Halperin
"The more we facilitate a continuum of data and insights across medical institutions, the better we can provide patients with care based on global, rather than local, experience," writes Avner Halperin, CEO of Sheba Impact.
Rachel Sarafraz

If AI doesn’t save resources, it won’t survive in healthcare

31.12.25|Rachel Sarafraz
"Bubble or not - the healthcare world, already heavily influenced by technological advancement, is on the cusp of unimaginable transformation," writes Rachel Sarafraz, Innovation Director at Sheba Beyond Virtual Hospital.
Sheba-Nvidia-Mount Sinai

Nvidia enters genomic research’s next frontier with Sheba-Mount Sinai collaboration

19.11.25|CTech
The AI-driven project seeks to decode the 98% of the genome still poorly understood.
Space lab experiment

Israeli scientists send bacteria to space on NASA and SpaceX mission in bid to map disease evolution

31.07.25|CTech
An experiment led by ARC, the innovation arm of Sheba Medical Center, and the hospital’s Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, will examine how microgravity alters bacterial behavior.
Sheba AI

Sheba Medical Center unveils three new AI centers for hospital care

06.03.25|James Spiro
The AI Center, ‘Project K’, and an AI Academy each mark a significant shift in the integration of AI into modern medicine.
Miri Debbie Sheba

The end of missed diagnoses? How AI is detecting breast cancer cases that physicians overlook

09.10.24|Dr. Debbie Anaby, Prof. Miri Sklair-Levy
"The future of AI in medicine is only at its beginning. The digital revolution is no longer a futuristic dream—it is happening now," write Professor Miri Sklair-Levy and Dr. Debbie Anaby.
אבנר הלפרין מנכ״ל שיבא אימפקט

From a cost burden to an economic growth engine: Building the next generation of medical innovation

09.09.24|Avner Halperin
"Healthcare could become a powerful growth engine, generating new opportunities, serving as a source of hope, and connecting the periphery to Israel's broader innovation ecosystem," says CEO of Sheba Impact Avner Halperin
Iris Shtein

Can we talk? LIV’s GenAI gets trauma sufferers to open up

22.08.24|Yonatan Sredni
The generative AI-based platform, developed by Sheba Medical Center, ARC, Microsoft and KPMG, streamlines accessibility to mental healthcare by amplifying workflows of practitioners, reducing time to treatment amid a national surge in demand since Oct. 7.