Innovation

The University of Central Florida College of Medicine joined a NASA-funded mission to research how space flight affects the health of space travelers.

As the nation's leading provider of retail healthcare, CVS Health partners with hospitals and health systems in many local markets.

Physicians from Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and data scientists from Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care are coming together to advance artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Since 2020, health IT companies have closed on 1,148 venture capital funding rounds totaling $20.4 billion, Pitchbook reported May 31.

Hyro, a conversational artificial intelligence company used by Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health, Cincinnati-based Mercy Health and Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health, raised $20 million in series B financing. 

Ordaos, a drug design company, was selected for the AWS Generative AI Accelerator.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai's new center, dubbed the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education, will focus on "democratizing" artificial intelligence so all clinicians and biomedical researchers will be able to use it regardless of training or expertise, Jason Moore, PhD,…

Fresh off unveiling its $100 million venture capital fund, Wellstar Health System said it plans to open a new innovation center in downtown Atlanta, Atlanta Business Chronicle reported.

UCLA Health, Cedars-Sinai and more are accelerating their adoption of artificial intelligence to help them interpret data, build predictive models, streamline tasks and procedures, and to enhance communication with patients. 

Ascension Ventures, part of St. Louis-based Ascension, and CVS Health Ventures participated in a $166 million funding round May 31 for Strive Health, a tech-enabled kidney care provider that focuses on value-based care.