Innovation

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health has robots across its facilities that assist with a variety of surgeries and disease diagnoses.

Toby Cosgrove, MD, former CEO and president of Cleveland Clinic, has joined surgical artificial intelligence company Theator as an executive advisor. 

The innovation arm of Morgantown, W.V.-based Mon Health, won the top innovator award at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons annual meeting Oct. 28 in Boston.

A proposed $2.55 billion life sciences hub would jumpstart healthcare innovation in New York, said Michael Dowling, president and CEO of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health.

TGH Innoventures, the technology and innovation arm of Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital, launched with $15 million in seed funding and is looking to invest in two more startups by the end of 2022, the Business Observer reported Nov. 2.  

Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health is partnering with artificial intelligence company Zephyr AI to further develop Zephyr's predictive analytics technology for chronically ill patients.

Cleveland Clinic and Okinawa (Japan) Institute of Science and Technology have developed a partnership to boost global healthcare innovation.

Ochsner Ventures, the venture capital arm of New Orleans-based Ochsner Health, invests in emerging companies, helps develop businesses, and collaborates with partners around the country that have a common aim of improving healthcare.

Researchers at the Humana Integrated Health Systems Science Institute and the University of Houston have created an artificial intelligence-powered tool that helps predict which patients are at risk of diabetes complications.

Bain Capital Life Science led a $250 million series D funding round for biotechnology company Emalex Biosciences.