Innovation

With all the buzz around artificial intelligence, health systems are looking to hire IT workers familiar with AI.

The Center for Digital Health Innovation at San Francisco-based UCSF Health has been honored for employing artificial intelligence to sort through millions of faxes.

Venture capital firm Canaan closed on $850 million for its Canaan XIII fund to target healthcare and technology companies in the seed and series A stages.

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Drexel University have created a machine-learning tool that can analyze 53 million patient notes to assess if patients have any similarities in their medical histories. 

Health systems that ranked near the top of Fortune's Most Innovative Companies list told Becker's they develop innovative ideas from clinicians that will help patients quickly.

Zach Taft, MBA, Head of Digital Innovations and Ventures,Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, joins the podcast to discuss how technology is evolving, how he is utilizing technology to optimize workflows, opportunities and headwinds he's keeping his eye on, and more.

Intel Capital, the venture arm of software giant Intel, co-led a $23 million financing round for medtech and X-ray company Oxos Medical.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is betting big on artificial intelligence and has made investments in various AI-based startups to improve areas of patient care such as heart failure and primary care, according to an April 5 report from CB Insights.  

Despite the hype around the technology, Marc Succi, MD, a physician at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, is warning physicians not to use ChatGPT to practice medicine, NPR reported April 5.

In this episode Rich Mahoney, Vice President of research at Intuitive, discusses how robotics work with, rather than against, traditional labor to expand the quality healthcare and strengthen systems' workforce. This episode is sponsored by Intuitive.