Here are five recently announced hospital partnerships with big tech, beginning with the most recent:
1. Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital is collaborating with Google Cloud to enhance the ProofPilot patient-centered digital clinical trial platform.
2. Lyft and Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health teamed up to provide free, on-demand nonemergency transportation to newly discharged patients without access to reliable transportation.
3. A new Amazon locker kiosk in Dallas-based Children’s Health will allow long-term patients and their families to receive and return packages directly from the Children’s Medical Center Dallas campus.
4. Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is expanding a program established with Samsung in 2018 for smartwatch-based remote monitoring of cardiac rehabilitation patients.
5. The University of Southern California’s Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, a research facility and oncology clinic in Los Angeles, is opening a new “smart” facility in partnership with AT&T to advance data-driven initiatives in cancer treatment and education.
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