Innovation

Here are four investments health systems recently made in digital health startups and internal innovation efforts.

The pandemic accelerated "hospital at home" programs, which use remote monitoring and telehealth technologies to provide patients with hospital-level care without the risks and costs associated with hospital stays. 

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network innovation hub AlphaLab Health has welcomed seven companies to its first class at its business accelerator, according to an April 5 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.

Truveta, a new healthcare data analytics startup formed by 14 U.S. health systems, recently named Lisa Gurry as COO and Dave Heiner as chief policy officer and general counsel, according to a March 30 news release. 

Cleveland Clinic and IBM have formed a 10-year partnership to create a joint accelerator center to advance healthcare discoveries using artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies, the organizations announced March 30.

Here are four investments health systems recently made in innovation-focused startups, internal projects and venture funds.

From their thoughts on how healthcare innovation has evolved throughout the pandemic to their opinions of retail disruption in the industry to their concerns about HHS' upcoming interoperability rules, here are six key quotes about the role of innovation in…

Hospitals' innovation efforts were forced to accelerate and refocus because of the pandemic's demand for more virtual care options and increased attention to social determinants of health.

Machine learning can quickly and precisely evaluate binding free energy used in drug discovery, according to a March 15 study published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital received $5 million to invest in early-stage life science research and development, Cincy Inno reported March 11.