UPMC has created an innovation hub in its home base of Pittsburgh by greatly expanding its cancer research and precision medicine footprints, Pittsburgh Business Times reported Jan. 3.
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In 2022, OSF Innovation and OSF OnCall, the digital health divisions of Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare, launched 10 different initiatives using digital technologies and data with the aim of providing more convenient access and improved patient outcomes.
Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health has partnered with data analytics company Nference to advance the academic health system's research and medical discoveries.
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic's cell and gene therapy accelerator has launched its first startup.
Orangeburg, S.C.-based Regional Medical Center has instituted a robot dietitian that roams the hospital to provide nutrition counseling to patients, The Times and Democrat reported Jan. 2.
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Microsoft is partnering with Apollo Hospitals, a Chennai-based Indian hospital chain, to train its artificial-intelligence-powered cardiac prognosis model on a dataset of South Asian patients, Analytics India Magazine reported Jan. 3.
Global medtech and biotech investment fell from $133.8 billion in 2021 to $89.7 billion in 2022, according to investment data from dealroom.co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Corewell Health has partnered with Swedish medtech company Mentice AB to deploy virtual reality surgical training tools at their health system.
From companies working on coding automation to advances in cellular therapeutics, the top health systems across the country are investing in startups and established firms through their venture capital arms.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is using Amazon Omics, a tool designed to help researchers study omic data powered by Amazon Web Services, to analyze the sequences of DNA, RNA and proteins, CNBC reported Dec. 28.