Sana Biotechnology, a cell and gene therapy company, is laying off 29 percent of its workforce, the company reported in an Oct. 10 SEC filing.

Optimize Health, a remote patient monitoring company, raised $18 million in series B financing.

Bhavik Patel, MD, chief AI officer of Mayo Clinic Arizona, said as AI in healthcare continues to grow, organizations should consider creating a leadership position dedicated to it, Fox News reported Oct. 10. 

UC Davis Health, based in Sacramento, Calif., as well as the University of California health systems, will be leading a new generative artificial intelligence collaborative. 

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has launched a 24/7 virtual care app that uses artificial intelligence to evaluate patients.

Microsoft unveiled new healthcare data and artificial intelligence tools Oct. 10 that are being adopted by health systems including Advocate Health, Northwestern Medicine and Duke Health.

Hippocratic AI, a generative artificial intelligence startup focused on healthcare, has named multiple health system C-suite leaders to its inaugural physician advisory council.

Virtual nurses will soon beam into a U.S. children's hospital for the first time.

Phoenix-based Banner Health is joining software company Graphite's alliance of health systems that aims to create a common language for digital health. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Aidoc have inked a deal on an artificial intelligence "orchestration engine" to connect clinicians with AI tools.

Samsung announced that it will use the b.well Connected Health platform to allow Samsung Health users to access care and create a health record within a single application on Galaxy phones.

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has recognized several hospitals and health systems as achieving level 10 status in its 2023 "Digital Health Most Wired" program.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is partnering with Instacart to study the effect of expanding access to food on health outcomes.

Karen DeSalvo, MD, chief health officer of Google, wrote in an Oct. 3 Google blog post that AI will not replace physicians, but instead, clinicians who use AI will replace clinicians without AI. 

Amwell, a company that provides a digital health platform to patients, announced a partnership with Nestle Health Science, a nutrition-focused business unit of Nestle.

Atropos Health, a digital health company backed by Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Medicine, launched a new tool that will allow healthcare leaders to use generative artificial intelligence for research.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is partnering with Samsung on a new digital health initiative.

Diana Health, a women's health provider network that partners with hospitals, raised $34 million in series B financing.

As weak hospital margins are projected to continue into 2024 due to the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in the labor market, hospital CFOs told Becker's that they are adopting digital health tools, such as remote patient monitoring.

The New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has entered into a new partnership with the Chiba Institute of Technology to use AI to make clinical trials more efficient.