Innovation

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

Paige, New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering's artificial intelligence spinout, teamed up with Quest Diagnostics May 25 to improve and expedite diagnoses for cancer and other diseases that need pathologic assessment.

Google hosts an annual press conference outlining the tech giant's latest AI-powered projects. This year, Google announced it is working on three artificial intelligence tools to assist in diagnosing serious diseases, such as breast cancer.

Mayo Clinic launched an artificial intelligence factory in September, and now it has about 60 projects underway, according to a May 18 article by The Wall Street Journal.

The pandemic imposed a significant delay on surgical innovation, one that will require a good deal of time and funding to overcome, according to Dr. Toby Gordon a healthcare policy and innovation expert and professor at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University in Tempe selected remote patient monitoring platform Hoy Health as one of the winners of their joint MedTech Accelerator program, the organizations said in a May 13 news release.

New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University is partnering with pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim to launch a Biomedical Data Science Fellowship program aimed at innovating drug discovery.

Many hospitals and health systems are strategizing how to implement successful care-at-home initiatives, which have been accelerated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Artificial intelligence won't significantly improve healthcare until the 2030s, according to AI experts Fei-Fei Li, PhD, and Andrew Ng, PhD.

Shriners Hospitals for Children and Georgia Institute of Technology are expanding their health innovation collaboration to include initiatives for precision medicine and big data research, the organizations said April 29.