Biotech company Cue Health is enacting a new cost-cutting strategy that will lead to the termination of 230 employees, constituting 49% of its workforce, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Memorial Hermann Health System said it will increase its reach and support the shift to value-based care by investing in a $2.2 billion digital health startup.

Hippocratic AI, a healthcare generative AI startup valued at $500 million, now counts 12 nursing leaders as advisors, including four from health systems.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has created a generative artificial intelligence app, CS Connect, that can interact with patients and ask them questions, the Los Angeles Business Journal reported April 29. 

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health has introduced a digital health platform that texts patients to set up at-home colon cancer screenings.

West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health has expanded virtual care to three other states.

A majority of healthcare organizations have embraced Apple's iPhone and iPad as their go-to shared-use smart devices, an April 10 report from KLAS found. 

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai expanded its virtual primary care app April 10.

When it comes to artificial intelligence, Cleveland Clinic is focusing on how to use the technology to better evaluate its patients and to drive greater caregiver efficiencies.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence has spun off a digital health startup after it received a $20 million investment.

Nine health systems are partnering with a venture studio aiming to launch digital health startups.

Digital health deal values plummeted in 2023, even as the number of deals increased, according to Pitchbook.

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health signed a new partnership to bring generative artificial intelligence to more than 12,000 affiliated physicians systemwide.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has launched a mobile app that gives patients access to 24/7 virtual care, KEYC reported March 21. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Platform is helping bring digital health tools to market by launching Solutions Studios. 

Healthcare software company Symplr announced a new AI and machine learning offering called SymplrAI on March 11. 

Somerset, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham inked a 10-year commitment to artificial intelligence solutions with GE HealthCare in 2017, and the next step is integrating medical imaging foundation models into its AI research work.

Seattle-based investment firm Frazier Healthcare Partners closed its acquisition of end-to-end financial services company RevSpring from GTCR, a private equity firm, on March 12.

Digital health platforms must take a page from Big Tech companies — and largely do the opposite to succeed in healthcare, per an MIT Sloan Management Review article.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit is launching a digital consumer experience to meet patients' evolving expectations around ways to access care, which "will foster additional consumer relationships and greater loyalty," CEO Wright Lassiter III said during the health system's Feb. 29 investor call.