Innovation

Coral Gables-based Baptist Health South Florida has launched a program to develop health tech startups in partnership with an Israeli hospital.

Outbound AI, an artificial intelligence software company working to solve healthcare administrative problems, raised $16 million in seed financing.

Duos, a digital health company focusing on providing care to older adults, raised $10 million.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Ventures has a large venture capital arm making a diverse array of investments from digital health companies to plant-based tube feeding companies.

Dennis Chornenky, chief artificial intelligence adviser of Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health, said generative AI will make it easier for hospitals and health systems to interact with data and computers more naturally. 

ChatGPT excels at picking the correct imaging test for patients with breast pain or needing breast cancer screening, researchers at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham found.

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health is exploring the use of generative artificial intelligence for administrative IT functions and helping providers write patient portal messages, but its data analytics chief expects the technology to be "transformative" for healthcare.

Clinicians at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine used an artificial intelligence-powered tool to achieve a 13 percent increase in the detection and removal of colorectal polyps. 

Innovation is an "imperative" for hospitals and health systems in these times of rising consumer expectations and competition from disruptors such as Amazon and Google, the American Hospital Association said.

DexCare, a digital patient booking platform spun out of Renton, Wash.-based Providence, raised $75 million in a funding round that saw participation from Kaiser Permanente Ventures.