Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services partnered with SwitchPoint Ventures to launch an innovation studio focused on healthcare delivery and administration.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has rolled out Northwell Health Pregnancy Chats, an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot designed to provide medical advice to pregnant patients.

The digital health world is constantly changing, and investors never know which startup will be next to hit unicorn status.

Large health systems are fueling healthcare innovation by making their own investments in biotech, therapeutics and health tech by supporting intriguing new startups.

The venture capital arm of Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare led a $9 million financing round for healthcare risk management company Censinet, in a round that saw additional participation from Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai, Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health and Raleigh, N.C.-based UNC Health Rex.

GE HealthCare has partnered with Ordr to provide health systems with continuous network performance and security monitoring of all clinical assets.

Allina Health has partnered with software company Qventus to use its artificial intelligence-based tool to automate operating room scheduling processes. 

Mayo Clinic Laboratories, a reference lab at the Rochester, Minn.-based health system, is partnering with genomics company Helix to assist the biopharma industry with drug discovery.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has partnered with technology distributor Digital Gadgets to create a line of wellness products. 

GE HealthCare, which completed its spinoff from General Electric on Jan. 4, said fourth quarter revenue was about $4.9 billion. 

EHR vendor Veradigm, formerly known as Allscripts, said it added six new payer and 30 new revenue cycle management clients in the fourth quarter.

Several health systems and other healthcare companies have signed on to an organization that aims to protect the industry from cybersecurity risks involving third-party vendors.

Hospital and health system digital and innovation chiefs told Becker's they're excited about the potential of GE's healthcare spinoff to advance the industry's digital transformation and said they envision plenty of partnership opportunities.

From letting IT teams work where they feel most productive to offering competitive salaries, this is how the health systems that made the list of Computerworld's best places to work in IT for 2023 create a great IT environment to work in. 

Rose Higgins, BSN, RN, a former nurse at Pittsburgh-based UPMC, has been named CEO of Dr.Evidence, a medical intelligence platform for life sciences companies. 

Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System is investing an undisclosed amount in telenutrition company Foodsmart and is joining the company's Foodscript Network as a founding member.

Alamosa, Colo.-based San Luis Valley Health has gone live with the Ivenix Infusion System from Fresenius Kabi to manage its infusion services at the hospital.

Green Bay, Wis.-based Bellin Health has signed an agreement to acquire BioSig Technologies' intracardiac signal visualization technology.

The tech industry has dealt with a glut of recent high-profile layoffs and digital health companies have not been spared. Here are four digital health companies laying off employees that Becker’s has reported on since Nov. 15: 

MyChart messages declined at San Francisco-based UCSF Health after the health system started billing for them, though clinicians rarely charge patients for them, a JAMA study found.