Sixty percent of hospital CIOs have been directed by their boards or finance committees to suspend certain IT projects amid the government shutdown, Black Book Research found. Until cash visibility improves, the IT chiefs have been ordered to halt enterprise…
Digital Health
As the volume of digital health deals has fallen consistently since 2021, competition in that space is heating up. Here are the 50 most promising digital health startups in 2025, according to market intelligence firm CB Insights, ranked by the…
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health has expanded its remote patient monitoring service to support patients with chronic conditions through text-based symptom tracking. The free program enables patients to self-report symptoms related to conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, blood…
Israel-based Sheba Medical Center has launched its first U.S.-based accelerator program through its ARC Innovation Center, in partnership with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The ARC Boston Soft-Landing Pad will begin next March and run for six months. The program aims…
AI-powered customer engagement company Qualtrics has agreed to acquire healthcare market research firm Press Ganey for $6.75 billion, the Financial Times reported Oct. 6. Press Ganey, currently owned by investor Ares Management and private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners,…
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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic launched Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate, a program aimed at helping biopharma and medical device companies accelerate clinical development. The program offers collaborators access to Mayo Clinic’s de-identified clinical data, advanced AI tools, physician-scientist expertise and international partner…
Hospitals are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, digital assistants and new documentation tools. Yet the success of these innovations does not hinge on the software itself. It depends on whether frontline clinicians believe in them — and more often than…
Health systems have had to scramble to discharge or move their hospital-at-home patients as CMS reimbursement for the program lapsed with the federal government shutdown. Healthcare organizations approved for the CMS waiver to provide acute hospital care at home had…
Renton, Wash.-based Providence and Compassus have expanded their joint venture to provide home health, hospice, palliative and personal care services in California, creating a network of 19 locations across the state. The new entity will operate as Providence at Home…
Houston Methodist has partnered with Rice University to launch a three-year program aimed at expanding Texas’ digital health workforce. The initiative is supported by an approximately $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation and will run from Oct. 1…