The reinvention of healthcare is underway and around the globe, hospitals are beginning to harness the powers of AI, robotics, advanced imaging and real-time analytics. So, what does this mean for the every-day patient? These hospitals are using care as an integral part of medical practice technology for the first time to raise the standard of healthcare to a whole new level. Every year, Newsweek and Statista collaborate to create a list of the top smart hospitals around the world, across 28 countries.
What is a ‘Smart Hospital’?
A smart hospital relies on technology as part of the care delivery structure, rather than as a separate addition to a hospital. Statista and Newsweek’s ranking of hospitals incorporates five main technology differentiators: electronics, remote care, digital image, artificial intelligence and robotics. Hospitals that achieve a level of excellence in each of these categories, with substantiated improvements in outcomes, rise to the top of the rankings.
What Are The Top Ranking Smart Hospitals in the World?
After four consecutive years of Mayo Clinic leading the field, the 2025 Newsweek–Statista survey now ranks Cleveland Clinic in Ohio as the world’s top smart hospital.
Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
In the 2025 survey, the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, ranked first and out ranked the four year running champions, the Mayo Clinic. This shift is a clear recognition of the Clinic’s commitment to a long-standing digital strategy. The clinic set the pillars of the strategy: Virtual, Data, AI and Quantum and to further support the strategy, every initiative and investment must survive a digital readiness check. Cleveland Clinic also operates a ‘virtual command centre,’ named Hospital 360. Hospital 360 integrates four real-time, clinic-critical data streams:
- Bed-occupancy forecasts
- Patient flow
- Staff and Nursing Schedules, and;
- OR Timetabling
Furthermore, the Clinic has partnered with IBM and Meta to form the AI Alliance and is a participant of the US AI Safety Institute.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
This is the first year Mayo Clinic fell from the top spot, but it is still one of the best hospital systems in the world. Thanks to the extensive global reach of its data network, it is able to connect the dots between clinicians and researchers stationed at different points on the globe. Standardisation of AI and machine Learning for Diagnostic Oncology, Diagnostic Cardiology and the Diagnosis of Rare Diseases is further evidence of Mayo’s prominence in the diagnostic space. Mayo Clinic consistently receives the highest volume of peer recommendations in the global survey; a testament to the depth of its reputation among medical professionals worldwide.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Massachusetts General and Mount Sinai
Three other US hospitals frequently occupy the top ten position in these surveys. Whether it’s technology, process or research, The Johns Hopkins Hospital is one of the best in the world. The Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, part of the Mass General Brigham hospital network, is a leader in AI-driven diagnostics and precision medicine. Mount Sinai Hospital in New York ranked number one in New York and top five globally in 2024 and has the largest clinical data science program of any hospital system in the world; with AI and informatics integrated within its care pathways.
22 UK Hospitals in the Global Top 350
The United Kingdom contributes 22 hospitals to the Newsweek and Statistica 2025 ranking, the third-highest national representation globally. NHS trusts including University College London Hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, among others, are represented on this list.
A considerable influence on the UK’s smart hospitals is the NHS digital transformation program, which has incorporated the establishment of electronic patient records, AI diagnostics and remote monitoring within the health service. The NHS’s unified resources and ambitious data access creates diagnostic datasets that stand among the most comprehensive and longitudinally complete data sets complete in the world- which is a significant asset for AI development and clinical research.
Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Ranked as the largest smart hospital in Europe, the Charité hospital in Berlin is also the largest academic hospital in Europe. With over 100 departments established in 4 different areas, Charité is a gigantic clinical and research institution. Its digital transformation programme spans electronic health records, AI-assisted diagnostics and a collaborative research model that partners with institutions including Sheba Medical Centre in Israel on AI, big data and medical imaging.
Samsung Medical Centre, Seoul
Samsung Medical Centre is South Korea’s flagship smart hospital and one of the most advanced in the region. Newsweek regularly ranks them in its global rankings, with special mention for both their capabilities in digital imaging and their integration of AI. South Korea has one of the most advanced healthcare systems in terms of digital adoption with almost every patient record being digital. Telemedicine is well-structured and the government has funded digital hospital construction.
Singapore General Hospital and National University Hospital
Singapore has an internationally esteemed healthcare model, showing how small, urban health systems can realise great outcomes using technology, integrated care and population health management. Singapore’s smart hospital program has AI-assisted diagnosis, robotic surgery, predictive patient flow analytics and an advanced telemedicine system. The country’s approach, where health technology is treated as a national strategic priority rather than an institutional choice, has produced consistently high outcomes on both clinical quality and patient experience metrics.
Sheba Medical Centre
Sheba Medical Centre is Israel’s largest hospital and its most internationally celebrated and has featured in the Newsweek global top ten for six consecutive years. What distinguishes Sheba is not just the technology it deploys but the model it has built for developing that technology. Through its ARC Innovation Centre (Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate), Sheba incubates startups within the hospital itself, where clinicians and technologists co-develop solutions in direct response to real clinical problems. Nearly 80 startups currently operate within the Sheba ecosystem, generating close to $1 billion in tech exits in recent years.
