Digital Health

TigerConnect, a clinician collaboration platform, has named hospital executive Adrienne Kirby, PhD, to its board of directors.

In a Dec. 1 opinion piece for Fast Company, Jordan Teicher, former director of communications at digital health company Cedar, argued there are three main reasons medtech is not a recession-proof business.

Amazon Web Services and Chapel Hill, N.C.-based University of North Carolina's Eshelman Institute for Innovation are teaming up to help launch digital health startups.

Despite a slowing market for digital health funding, investors — including health system venture capital arms — continue to pour money into promising ideas and solutions.

Optum Labs, the innovation arm of UnitedHealth Group, has opened a digital health research hub at New York City-based Cornell University.

Health systems are increasing their investment in digital care tools, yet 61 percent of patients skipped their medical appointments due to unsatisfactory experiences with digital technology, MM+M reported Nov. 28.  

New York City-based Columbia University is partnering with Cooperstown, N.Y.-based Bassett Healthcare Network to bring digital cardiovascular care to the rural New York system.

Medical imaging company Visage has rolled out an adapter for the AWS-built Amazon HealthLake Imaging technology.

Hospitals and health systems across the country are looking to implement new digital health technology that has the potential to improve care and reduce administrative burden. Here are six health systems that entered new digital health partnerships since Nov. 14:

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