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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has entered into a collaboration with Imago Systems, a Lansdowne, Va.-based software company using artificial intelligence for the early detection of abnormalities in imaging data.

Reductions in patient length of stay have been shown to reduce costs and improve outcomes. There are a number of ways for hospitals and health systems to reduce length of stay, the majority of which are time-intensive and center on restructuring existing operations.

CHI Franciscan Health, in partnership with GE Healthcare, opened its Mission Control Center, which uses predictive analytics to coordinate patient care across eight of the Tacoma, Wash.-based health system's hospitals, the Kitsap Daily News reports.

Boston-based Partners HealthCare has teamed up with Fujifilm SonoSite to apply artificial intelligence to portable ultrasound technology for point-of-care testing.

UCHealth launched a skill for the Amazon Echo that allows users to ask the Aurora, Colo.-based system's virtual assistant, Livi, for information about health conditions and hospital services.

Montefiore Nyack (N.Y.) Hospital implemented artificial intelligence software to aid clinicians in identifying urgent, potentially life-threatening, conditions on patient CT scans.

Startups integrating artificial intelligence into healthcare collectively received a record-breaking amount of funding from venture capital firms in the second quarter of 2019, according to a new report from CB Insights.

An artificial intelligence-powered electrocardiograph detected atrial fibrillation in ECGs with 90 percent accuracy, even if heart rhythm had returned to normal by the time of the screening, according to a new study.

Microsoft is using blockchain technology to make advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning more accessible.

Google's DeepMind created an algorithm that correctly predicted more than 90 percent of acute kidney injuries that would require dialysis up to 48 hours before symptoms are recognized, according to CNBC.

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth is implementing an artificial intelligence-driven operations system to help make patient flow more efficient.

Intensive care units across the country are increasingly implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to help sort through patients' medical data and predict and diagnose illnesses, NBC reports.

West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health's venture arm has invested $1 million in and established a partnership with Vida Diagnostics, an artificial intelligence software company based in Coralville, Iowa.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center researchers developed an artificial intelligence-powered system that can automatically screen the EHR to identify eligible patients for clinical trials, according to a study published in JMIR Medical Informatics.

Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Health System formed a research collaboration with KenSci, an artificial intelligence-powered risk prediction platform, to study how pediatric risk scores can be improved for clinical decision making.

Microsoft announced an investment of $1 billion in and partnership with OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company co-founded by Elon Musk to develop artificial general intelligence, a type of advanced software with intellectual capabilities equal or superior to humans.

As artificial intelligence continues to grow in demand, its use in healthcare is also increasing.

DEARhealth, a University of California Los Angeles spinout developing an artificial intelligence-powered care management platform, raised $6.8 million in a Series A funding round led by Philips' venture arm.

Lisa Rometty, the vice president and general manager of oncology, life sciences and personal health at IBM Watson Health, is leaving the company, an IBM spokesperson confirmed to STAT.