Innovation

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health received a $25 million gift from Dorothy Byrne of the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation to establish an interdisciplinary cancer research institute at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the system said Jan. 19. 

Here is a list of investments health systems made in digital health startups and internal innovation efforts since Jan. 10.

Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System partnered with Vouched, an artificial intelligence developer, to provide patients with a safe and secure way to complete new patient registration forms via their smartphones.

The Department of Veterans Affairs signed a $13 million deal with Google Cloud to deploy Apigee, its application programming interface management platform.

Blockchain health firm Avaneer Health closed a $50 million funding round.

A team of researchers from across the nation, led by Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins computer scientists, have created a cloud-based platform, granting genomics researchers access to one of the largest genome datasets. 

Bala Hota, MD, former vice president and chief analytics officer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, has joined healthcare software company Tendo Systems as its senior vice president and chief informatics officer.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence's digital health spinoff, DexCare, closed a $50 million series B funding round Jan. 12.

Researchers from Stanford (Calif.) Medicine and Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University are looking into using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help physicians triage patients, Marketplace reported Jan. 12.

Remote patient monitoring after surgery through smartphone tools and "selfies" can be effective for patients recovering at home, a Jan. 10 study published in Canadian Medical Association Journal shows.