Innovation

A new study from the Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine found that ChatGPT provided correct information about breast cancer screening 88 percent of the time.

The Veterans Health Administration is partnering with medtech company Penumbra on a three-year collaboration that will explore virtual reality therapies. 

Renton, Wash.-based Providence is expanding its partnership with healthcare company Grail to give patients access to a blood test that can detect hard-to-diagnose cancers. 

Boston-based Mass General Brigham has a large venture capital arm, Mass General Brigham Ventures, and has made some notable investments in the life sciences, biotech, medtech and digital health spaces.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is using artificial intelligence and robotics to help clinicians predict and diagnose lung cancer.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic's research team is developing an artificial intelligence-based tool that can help pathologists detect problems in kidney transplants, Post Bulletin reported April 1.  

Software giant Salesforce has a notable venture arm, Salesforce Ventures, that has been active in the medtech investment space.

Wellth, a digital health platform that uses behavioral economics to help users reach their health goals, raised $20 million in series B financing.

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Medical Center spent $2 million to build its own hospital-at-home program in six months, caring for nearly 750 patients in the first year-plus, Tradeoffs reported.

The U.S. healthcare system is ripe with opportunity to reimagine clinical and operational processes that more closely resemble remnants of the 1980s, not 2023.