Artificial intelligence is often framed as a radical break from the past. In healthcare, it is better understood as an acceleration of a long-standing shift. For decades, providers have purchased technology as software — licenses, seats, and upgrades. The responsibility…
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Baptist Health is offering eligible patients the option to receive hospital-level care at home through a new program launched at Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville. The program, called Baptist Hospital at Home, provides 24/7 acute care services to select inpatients who…
From adopting AI to uncover rare diseases to boosting rural innovation, health systems continue to team up with Big Tech on their digital transformations. “As we use more AI solutions, they require more storage capability, and we need to be…
Mayo Clinic is expanding access to patient data for researchers through a new collaboration with Mercy. The Rochester, Minn.-based health system said in a Feb. 23 news release that researchers and solution developers can now access decades of high-level, deidentified…
Frist Cressey Ventures is partnering with health systems on its new $425 million fund. The venture capital firm is working with limited strategic partners including Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health and Columbus-based OhioHealth to invest in early-stage health tech and AI…
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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…
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…