UC Davis Health is looking to improve digital health innovation and equity through launching a cloud innovation center powered by Amazon Web Services, it announced Nov. 29.
Innovation
The pandemic spurred significant investment in healthcare artificial intelligence, with $8.5 billion being raised in 2021 so far, according to a CBInsights report published Nov. 24.
Luma Health, a patient engagement platform used by Banner Health and MontefioreMedical Center, raised $130 million in a Series C funding round.
Here are seven recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives accelerating innovation efforts at healthcare organizations.
Appointment scheduling represents a complex mathematical problem for infusion centers, which is often handled using linear logic. There is a better way.
The University of California Los Angeles developed an artificial intelligence technology designed to help clinicians and labs examine skin samples without performing a biopsy, according to a Nov. 18 report published in Light: Science & Applications.
In 2019, Mayo Clinic began a 10-year strategic partnership with Google focused on innovation and cloud computing. Here, Cris Ross, the Rochester, Minn.-based system's CIO, provides updates on what the partnership has accomplished and where it's going.
Several CIOs from health systems including Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai and SCL Health have signed on as advisors to a new innovation venture focused on growing healthcare and government tech companies, according to a Nov. 18 news release.
Amazon partnered with clinical communication platform Vocera Communications to develop a HIPAA-eligible Alexa skill for hospitals to enable patients to submit voice requests to their clinics via the device.
From at-home dialysis machines to edible barcodes on drugs to deter fraud, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated innovation in health IT. Of the hundreds of new companies and technologies that developed during the pandemic, Fast Company selected 10 healthcare companies that…