Sanford Health will soon schedule its more than 10,000 nurses using its internally developed artificial intelligence tool, the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based system said Feb. 24 on its website.
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The American Academy of Family Physicians has teamed up with Hint Health to launch an innovation lab focused on addressing physician burnout.
Hospitals are benefiting from "hospital-at-home" programs, which are designed to improve patients' outcomes and experiences, reduce hospitalizations and increase hospital capacity. Although questions remain about the model's long-term Medicare coverage, hospitals are steadily launching such programs.
A new wellness and holistic health startup, the Healing Company, has been backed by wellness icon Deepak Chopra, who is joining the startup as a chief scientific adviser, CNBC reported Feb. 22.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center's "hospital-at-home" program is a key part of the Nashville, Tenn.-based system's "concerted effort to treat patients in the right place at the right time," Victor Legner, MD, Vanderbilt's executive medical director of primary care, said in a…
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University Hospitals Ventures, the Cleveland-based system's innovation and commercialization arm, has expanded its partnership with medical device company Lazurite.
MyMichigan Health became the 84th health system in the country to offer a CMS-approved "hospital-at-home" program, the Midland-based system said Feb. 18.
Large companies' proprietary information technology allows them to maintain dominance while slowing the growth of rivals, reducing opportunities for innovative disruption, according to an essay in MIT Technology Review.
IBM launched a new brand initiative aimed at accelerating innovation and partnership with clients and partners.
The University of California-Irvine and its academic health system launched a technology-driven institute for precision health that combines the university's expertise in health sciences, artificial intelligence, machine learning, engineering, clinical genomics and data science.