Innovation

General Catalyst co-led a $1.6 million pre-seed investment for Berry Health, a company working to democratize healthcare in Africa. 

Stafford (Va.) Hospital is starting to see results from virtual nursing after implementing the program last month, The Free Lance-Star reported June 28.

Health system digital leaders told Becker's they use different generative artificial intelligence programs depending on the situation, but "Dr. ChatGPT" hasn't arrived just yet.

New York City-based Mount Sinai has an active innovation arm helping a diverse group of companies, including precision diagnostic companies focusing on allergies and vaccine platforms.

IBM and the University of Oxford used generative artificial intelligence to find four new potential COVID-19 antiviral drugs.

Peter Embí, MD, senior vice president for research and innovation at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is joining the National Academy of Medicine's three-year AI-based initiative. 

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is using artificial intelligence in a novel way: to help patients sleep better.

Health systems can innovate by modeling themselves after retail disruptors and identifying more environmentally (and cost-) friendly care tools, the American Hospital Association reported.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is one of the first to release a framework for potential legislation regulating artificial intelligence, and although the legislation isn't specific, healthcare leaders are expressing "openness" to it, Politico reported June 27. 

A Wisconsin health system joined Big Tech in backing a healthcare artificial intelligence company.