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Digital Health

Here are 10 updates on Humana's recent expansions, business decisions and lawsuits reported by Becker's Hospital Review in the past few months.

Boston-based Partners HealthCare Innovation partners with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital and Spaulding Hospital to help researchers commercialize innovations. In February, Partners HealthCare Innovation launched a staff accelerator program that includes mentorship, development opportunities, workshops and…

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Wake Forest Innovations is split between two centers: the Center for Innovation and Commercialization helps advance the development and commercialization of inventions, while the Center for Industry Research Collaboration accelerates access to clinical…

Pittsburgh-based UPMC Enterprises focuses on two main areas: translational science and digital solutions. The center can work with individuals to bring an idea with a business plan into fruition, as well as with early-stage companies that have an angel round…

West Des Moines, Iowa-based The UnityPoint Health Innovation Center aims to empower and encourage team members to share ideas and propose efficiencies, processes and technologies that support the health system's vision of providing a differentiated and personalized experience to patients.

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The Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation in Philadelphia comprises three distinct entities: the incubator-esque Acceleration Lab, the Nudge Unit for clinical reminders and its Center for Digital Health.

Whether through its co-founded Chicago-based incubator MATTER or partners like provider-led Avia, Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare's OSF Innovation focuses on incubating and engineering clinical ideas. The innovation program has its own OSF Ventures unit, which invests primarily in companies' Series…

Boston Children's Hospital launched the Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator to broaden its digital health offerings and encompass remote care services, clinical decision support tools and interoperable technologies. The accelerator offers consulting, technology evaluation, EMR integration advising, project management, startup…

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