Caregility expands clinical Workflow Optimization throughout the patient journey with new ED and OR Connected Care integrations. Caregility Aug 11, 2026, 09:30 ET EmOpti and Apella join Caregility's Care Square ecosystem, supporting optimized connected care from emergency intake and surgery to inpatient care, discharge and follow-up. WALL, N.J., Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ - Caregility Corporation, the global leader in AI-assisted enterprise connected care, today announced the expansion of its workflow optimization focus into the Emergency Department (ED) and Operating Room (OR) through new partnerships with EmOpti and Apella. The integrations with EmOpti, a leader in ED-based workflow optimization and hybrid care models, and Apella, an innovator in AI-powered surgical intelligence and OR optimization, advance Caregility's mission to bring digitally connected, smart workflows to every point of care in the patient journey. Caregility Connected Care Platform users can now monitor, collaborate, and engage virtually with patients and clinicians from emergency intake and triage to surgery in the OR, to patient care in the ICU and Med-Surg units, to discharge and follow-up at home. Caregility's Connected Care Platform delivers clinical and operational workflow efficiencies and effectiveness that transform patient care delivery. Continuous ambient monitoring and sensing with AI-surfaced actionable insights, along with real-time closed-loop communications and coordination of care assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and delivery across care teams, all lead to efficiencies, faster interventions and response times, cost savings, and better patient outcomes and experience. "The goal of a 'smart' hospital is ultimately about delivering better patient care," said Peter McLain, Chief Strategy Officer at Caregility. "Using a network of sensors in the room and AI to surface real-time actionable insights, combined with a virtual network of clinicians, leads to the kind of workflow optimization for better patient care across all environments of a hospital, including the ED and OR." Emergency Department Workflow Optimization with EmOpti: Caregility's partnership with EmOpti improves triage speed through AI-powered monitoring, automated intelligent routing and queue management, closed-loop communication, and real-time capture of notes and orders. Together, these capabilities help connect patients to the right level of care faster while improving workflow efficiency and care delivery in the ED. "Emergency departments need solutions that work at the pace of emergency medicine," said Dr. Ed Barthell, CEO at EmOpti. "Our partnership with Caregility gives hospitals practical ways to optimize patient ED throughput, reducing boarding times, eliminating patient walkouts or diversions, speeding up triage and care, and proactively monitoring boarding patients up through their admission into an inpatient room. That delivers measurable ROI in quality, revenue, and patient satisfaction." Operating Room Workflow Optimization with Apella Caregility's partnership with Apella brings AI-powered surgical intelligence and real-time operational insight across surgical workflows, leading to workflow efficiency and effectiveness in the OR. Results include eliminating delays in the surgery schedule, improved turnovers, streamlined coordination, and optimized surgical capacity. "Surfacing real-time situational awareness throughout the surgical process helps drive workflow efficiency and better patient care in the OR," said David Schummers, CEO at Apella. "Our partnership with Caregility aligns with our approach of AI-assisted, real-time situational awareness across the entire hospital, delivering consistent impact on operations and patient experience." Connected Care Interoperability at Scale EmOpti and Apella are the latest additions to Care Square, Caregility's interoperability foundation, joining recent integrations with multiple nurse call platforms, AI-enabled sensors, ambient documentation services, and AI voice agents to form an enterprise-wide ecosystem. The integrated offerings make adoption easier for health systems by supporting single sign-on, shared infrastructure, harmonized user experiences, simplified access across applications, and a common approach to optimizing workflows, patient experience, and ROI. Care Square enables health systems to bring together best-of-breed solutions that extend the value of connected care infrastructure across new clinical workflows, care settings, and sensor modalities. The ecosystem reflects Caregility's broader "Build on Us" strategy: giving hospitals a flexible platform that supports innovation without adding unnecessary complexity, duplicative devices, or fragmented workflows. "Care Square is about giving hospitals the infrastructure to see more, sense more, and act sooner," said Ron Gaboury, CEO of Caregility. "We're bringing video, audio, radar, air sensors, edge AI, and partner capabilities together in an industry-first platform for tracking and activating information in the room, whether that's an ED bay, an operating suite, an ICU room, a med-surg bed, or the patient's home. The integration of EmOpti and Apella into the Caregility ecosystem will help health systems extend connected care beyond the bedside into moments where speed, awareness, and coordination matter most." To learn more about Caregility's Care Square ecosystem or see the new ED and OR workflow optimization integrations in action, visit Caregility to schedule a demo. About EmOpti EmOpti delivers workflow-powered telehealth solutions that help hospitals optimize acute care delivery through intelligent routing, queue management, remote consult workflows, and hybrid care models. EmOpti supports ED, observation, inpatient, and related workflows by connecting on-site teams with remote physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and other resources to improve speed, productivity, patient experience, and operational performance. About Apella Apella is a health technology company that has developed an OR management platform providing busy hospitals with real-time operational intelligence to eliminate delays, distractions, and inefficiencies throughout the day. Apella uses artificial intelligence and ambient technologies, integrated with EHR data, to automate and optimize coordination, scheduling, and staffing so surgical teams have additional capacity to provide better, safer care to more patients. About Caregility Caregility Corporation is a global digital health leader dedicated to connecting care for patients and clinicians everywhere through innovative, AI-assisted solutions. The Caregility Connected Care(TM) Platform optimizes care coordination and clinical workflow, powering Smart Room strategies with an array of smart sensors that surface real-time actionable insights in the patient room to improve clinician decision support, intervention, and care delivery. Today, Caregility supports more than nine million virtual care sessions annually. From critical and acute, to urgent and emergent, to post-acute and ambulatory, Caregility is connecting care everywhere. Learn more at https://caregility.com/ Media Contact SOURCE Caregility

Extending ambient intelligence from the patient room to the OR. Corporate Communications May 26, 2026 Hospitals are under increasing pressure to improve throughput, support overstretched care teams, and deliver measurable operational and financial outcomes amid rising costs and staffing challenges. That is why AvaSure and Apella have partnered to bring connected ambient intelligence across the hospital - from inpatient care environments to the operating room. AvaSure delivers virtual care, ambient AI, and smart room capabilities that support inpatient workflow optimization, while Apella provides real-time perioperative intelligence that helps surgical teams improve OR utilization, reduce delays, and optimize procedural flow. Together, the partnership helps hospitals improve throughput, coordination, and operational performance across the enterprise. "Health systems are looking for technology investments that deliver measurable operational and financial value. By bringing together AvaSure's virtual care platform and Apella's perioperative intelligence capabilities, we are helping hospitals improve efficiency across critical care environments while creating a stronger foundation for enterprise-wide operational transformation." - Adam McMullin, AvaSure CEO Helping hospitals improve operational and financial performance. Operational inefficiencies across inpatient and perioperative environments can have a significant impact on hospital capacity, staffing, and financial performance. Delays in patient progression, underutilized OR time, fragmented workflows, and administrative burden all contribute to rising costs and operational friction. "Together, Apella and AvaSure deliver what most hospitals prioritize when it comes to their investments in modern AI: real operational ROI. Novel, trustworthy data is the starting point to delivering better outcomes for patients and care teams alike. And Apella and AvaSure have collectively built the specialized expertise needed to optimize workflows across the entire surgical, pre-op, and post-op lifecycle." - Jordan Tuttle, Apella COO Together, AvaSure and Apella help hospitals create greater operational visibility and workflow intelligence across the enterprise - enabling teams to improve throughput, optimize existing resources, and unlock measurable financial value without adding unnecessary complexity. Driving operational performance across the hospital. Through virtual care workflows, AvaSure helps health systems accelerate patient progression, streamline care coordination, and improve inpatient throughput. Apella extends real-time operational intelligence into the perioperative environment, helping surgical teams improve scheduling accuracy, reduce delays, and optimize OR utilization. Organizations using AvaSure have achieved: * 11.6% reduction in length of stay * 16% reduction in ED holding time * 31% reduction in discharge turnaround time Organizations leveraging Apella have achieved: * 24% improvement in scheduling accuracy * 69-minute average reduction in surgical delays * 56 additional block hours per OR, per month Delivering measurable financial impact. By helping hospitals optimize workflows and make better use of existing staff and capacity, both organizations are driving measurable financial outcomes. At Houston Methodist, Apella helped generate approximately $2.2 million in additional revenue during a pilot focused on improving surgical block utilization and OR efficiency. Meanwhile, Hackensack Meridian Health achieved approximately $1.6 million in cost savings through AvaSure virtual care initiatives driven by nurse retention improvements, reduced agency spend, length of stay improvements, readmission reductions, falls prevention, and reductions in CLABSI and CAUTI events. In addition, AvaSure virtual sitter programs have helped health systems save more than $826 million in labor costs. And hospitals using Apella increase capacity for two more surgical cases per OR per month without the cost of additional facilities, staff, or overtime. Purpose-built intelligence for high-impact care environments. As health systems evaluate AI strategies, many are recognizing that different care environments require different operational workflows, data models, and intelligence capabilities. Rather than forcing hospitals into generalized platforms designed to approach every environment the same way, AvaSure and Apella bring specialized intelligence to the areas where operational coordination, workflow efficiency, and resource optimization matter most. By combining intelligent virtual care with AI-driven perioperative workflow intelligence, the partnership helps hospitals extend ambient intelligence across the enterprise while supporting the unique operational needs of both inpatient and surgical environments.