Digital Health

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Twistle, a startup offering automated communication, information-gathering and patient education services to healthcare organizations, announced Oct. 29 the close of a funding round co-led by the Long Beach, Calif.-based MemorialCare Innovation Fund.

Sixty-five percent of consumers use online information to make suggestions to their physician about their respective care plans, according to a recent Rock Health report.

American Hospital Association is forming an alliance with Avia, a Chicago-based digital health consulting firm for healthcare providers, to address digital and health system innovation.

Around one in four consumers see the healthcare sector and their providers as innovative compared to other digitally transformed industries, according to an Ernst & Young report released Oct. 23. 

The Innovation Studio at Children's Hospital Los Angeles announced on Oct. 21 the five winners of its inaugural Digital Health Lab competition to develop pediatric healthcare solutions using virtual and augmented reality and mobile gaming technology.

Bloomington-based Indiana University will open a Center for Artificial Intelligence, backed by a $60 million gift — the second-largest private donation in the university's history — from billionaire alumnus Fred Luddy.

The United Health Foundation announced on Oct. 17 a partnership with Atlanta-based Morehouse School of Medicine to research ways to improve accessibility and usability of digital health tools in underserved communities in the southeastern U.S.

Seattle Children's announced on Oct. 15 the opening of its Building Cure biomedical research center in the "biotech corridor" of downtown Seattle.

The Washington, D.C.-based Advanced Medical Technology Association, a trade association and lobbying group, established on Oct. 14 its Center for Digital Health to advance tech- and data-driven care delivery.