Baptist Health Strengthens Statewide Stroke Care Network with RapidAI’s Deep Clinical AI

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In recognition of World Stroke Day, Baptist Health, Arkansas’ most comprehensive health care organization, is highlighting how its partnership with RapidAI, the global leader in deep clinical AI and workflow integration, is helping clinicians across the state deliver faster, more connected care for stroke patients.

Baptist Health’s stroke teams have long relied on RapidAI’s intelligent, integrated platform to enhance imaging interpretation, streamline communication and workflows, and accelerate decision-making across its hospitals. Powered by clinically validated deep clinical artificial intelligence, the platform analyzes brain images in moments, helping physicians identify blood clots and other critical changes that guide timely intervention. Through the RapidAI mobile and desktop applications, clinicians can view results and collaborate across facilities, ensuring that every patient has access to expert review and timely intervention.

“Through teamwork, innovation, and dedication, we are committed to delivering the best stroke care across the state, improving outcomes for every community we serve,” said Sharon Aureli, Neuro Program Line Manager at Baptist Health. “RapidAI gives our teams the ability to see, communicate, and act together in real time. It’s not just improving stroke response, it’s strengthening how we work as one connected system, and that results in better care provided to all communities we serve.”

Baptist Health’s hospitals are nationally recognized for excellence in stroke care, including Joint Commission certification and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) certifications at several hospitals as well as Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Gold Plus and Silver Plus achievement awards from the American Heart Association. These honors reflect the dedication of Baptist Health’s stroke teams and the organization’s mission to bring advanced, life-saving care to every corner of Arkansas.

“At Baptist Health, we take innovation very seriously when it’s clinically proven to help us provide exceptional care,” said Kasey Grimmett, Stroke Nurse Coordinator at Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock. “RapidAI integrated with Pulsara has cut our door-in-door-out times by 55% and we’ve seen a 15% reduction in door-to-groin times since we went live on the Rapid cloud platform.”

“Baptist Health and RapidAI share a vision to advance care through clinically adaptive intelligence that clinicians can trust,” said Karim Karti, Chief Executive Officer at RapidAI. “Built on our Deep Clinical AI framework, underpinned by foundation models trained on multimodal clinical data, the Rapid platform extends far beyond alerts to deliver real-time, contextual insights across disease states. Together, we’re demonstrating how deep, clinically validated AI can elevate decision-making, enhance collaboration, and drive measurable impact across the care continuum.”

To learn more about stroke care at Baptist Health, visit Baptist-Health.com. To learn more about RapidAI’s deep clinical AI platform, visit RapidAI.com

About Baptist Health

For more than a century, Baptist Health has delivered all our best in health care through Christian compassion and innovative services. Baptist Health, Arkansas’ most comprehensive health care organization, is here For You. For Life. – with more than 250 points of access that include 12 hospitals; urgent care centers; a senior living community; over 100 primary and specialty care clinics; a college with studies in nursing and allied health; and a graduate residency program. It is also the largest private not-for-profit health care organization based in Arkansas, providing care through the support of approximately 11,000 employees, groundbreaking treatments, renowned physicians and community outreach programs. For more information about Baptist Health, visit Baptist-Health.com, call Baptist Health HealthLine at 1-888-BAPTIST or download the myBaptistHealth app.