Digital Health

IBM Watson launched a digital health pass app to help individuals verify their health status as they return to work, school or air travel amid the pandemic, the company announced Oct. 12 during the HLTH VRTL 2020 conference.

As Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's first chief digital officer and health of technology, Claus Torp Jensen, PhD, oversees the New York City-based organization's digital transformation and data strategies.

Contact tracing is an important tool public health leaders and government officials use to understand how COVID-19 is spreading across the country, even though many of these efforts have experienced significant challenges when it comes to issues such as data…

Cleveland Clinic is working with a group of tech companies including Navenio, IBM and Deloitte to implement an indoor GPS system for caregivers across its new London hospital campus, according to an Oct. 13 news release. 

Global venture capital funding for digital health companies hit a record high in the first three months of 2020, according to a report from Mercom Capital Group.

Here are nine recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives accelerating digital transformation efforts at healthcare organizations.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence combined nine of its health technology investments into one comprehensive digital health portfolio called Tegria, the health system announced Oct. 12.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic launched a new platform to increase remote diagnostic access for commonly transmitted diseases, the health system announced Oct. 12.

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare announced two digital health partnerships in the past 48 hours.

2020 has become the largest funding year in history for digital health, with 24 deals worth more than $100 million apiece recorded, according to a recent Rock Health report.