Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System participated in a $150 million series D funding round for Clarify Health, a cloud analytics and value-based payments platform.
Innovation
While most conversations about hospital innovation center around which new initiatives health systems have up and running, a less glamorous yet important piece of the conversation centers on which programs have been discontinued.
GlaxoSmithKline has signed a multiyear partnership agreement with artificial intelligence-powered pathology company PathAI, according to an April 5 news release.
A new program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking to use artificial intelligence to make medical triage decisions on the battlefield, reported The Washington Post March 29.
Here is a list of investments health systems made in digital health startups and internal innovation efforts since Feb. 28.
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Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare implemented a systemwide integration of a cloud-based breast reporting system and risk assessment tool.
Advocate Aurora Health acquired MobileHelp, a company specializing in remote patient monitoring and personal emergency response systems.
Although far from being implemented in healthcare, blockchain technology has potential to solve a variety of issues in healthcare, adding up to big savings, according to a BIS Research report.
Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist Carl Marci, MD, will lead the mental health division of an AI startup.
Because SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in wastewater systems, a commentary published March 30 in Nature suggests that smart toilets may be a good public health strategy for detecting and tracking COVID-19 cases.