Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is expanding its use of a Parkinson’s disease monitoring app with support from a $5 million gift from the Elaine and Eduardo Saverin Foundation. The health system is broadening access to the app among its more than…
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William Morris, MD, has been named chief medical officer of health tech startup Tennr. He most recently served in the same role for ambient AI company Ambience Healthcare. He has also been chief medical officer at Google Cloud and spent…
Healthcare is investing in AI. But most operating models haven’t changed Health systems have long had more manual work to do than staff to perform it. Now, these health systems are rapidly adopting AI under the promise that it will…
New York City-based Cornell Tech has appointed a chief of health innovation and created a health tech advisory committee. Tanzeem Choudhury, PhD, was named health innovation chief after serving the past five years as director of the Health Tech Hub…
Charleston, S.C.-based MUSC Health is one of the first health systems to have virtual nursing in the neonatal ICU. The organization is expanding a collaboration with startup VirtuAlly, which previously provided pediatric virtual nurses in the med-surg unit at MUSC…
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CommonSpirit Health is expanding its AI strategy through a new partnership with Midstream Health, a San Francisco-based financial technology company backed by Andreessen Horowitz and CommonSpirit Ventures. Chicago-based CommonSpirit will implement Midstream’s AI-powered financial operations platform, beginning with integration into…
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue has been awarded $100,000 to develop and implement a program focused on emergency preparedness. The funding, provided by the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will support…
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is entering its next phase of growth for its hospital-at-home program after CMS extended the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver through September 2030, giving health systems long-sought regulatory certainty. Since 2022, Mass General Brigham’s…
While 76% of CIOs say application rationalization is “critical,” only 1 in 5 has a program in place, a survey of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives members found. Meanwhile, more than a third of CIOs call app optimization a…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Ventures and Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy have invested in care navigation startup Garner Health as part of a $118 million funding round. Trained on over 320 million patient records, the company’s employer-based, AI-powered platform offers physician rankings…