Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare is extending digital health to underserved patients through a state-funded collaboration with federally qualified health centers in Illinois.
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Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare is rolling out a 3D mammography van to expand breast cancer screenings with the latest standard of technology.
Pittsburgh-based UPMC Enterprises, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Gates Frontier participated in the $51 million expansion series B financing round for drug discovery company Cerevance.
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is launching an accelerator to help promising healthcare startups come to market.
The U.S. General Services Administration has launched a healthcare artificial intelligence competition focused on startups that can create practical solutions that can help federal agencies provide medical care.
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A World Health Organization report identified artificial intelligence as a tool that can support mental healthcare through planning and automation. However, it also highlighted a number of challenges with technology in mental healthcare.
As hospital-at-home programs rise in popularity, could surgical home-hospital care be next? Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital has been using a variety of digital tools to try caring for surgical patients remotely.
UC San Diego Health has received a $22 million gift to create an artificial intelligence-powered "mission control center."
Health systems including Rochester, Minn-based Mayo Clinic, Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health and Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have received a $23.5 million grant to advance the use of artificial intelligence in intensive care units.
Virtual reality is an exciting new technology that allows medical systems to train clinicians in the digital world.