Innovation

The FDA recently authorized marketing of EaseVRx, a prescription-use virtual reality system to treat chronic lower back pain, the agency said Nov. 16. 

The venture capital arm of St. Louis-based Ascension led a $77 million funding round for Cala Health, a Burlingame, Calif.-based company that makes bioelectronic medical devices.

Linus Biotechnology, a spinoff of New York City-based Mount Sinai Innovation Partners and a precision exposome medicine company, is slated to develop a tech platform with exposome sequencing.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health and startup studio Aegis Ventures formed a joint venture to launch artificial intelligence companies that address healthcare equity, costs and quality. Becker's Hospital Review spoke with Richard Mulry, the president and CEO of the…

Pittsburgh-based UPMC combined machine learning and whole genome sequencing to develop an artificial intelligence-powered system to prevent hospital-based disease outbreaks, according to a study published Nov. 17 in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

What was once a hypothesized iteration of what the internet could be, the metaverse aims to reimagine it as a 3D experience. Although the metaverse might be transformative for healthcare, it can also introduce new risks, Politico reported Nov. 17.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine's automated text messaging system for COVID-19 outpatients has proven to save two lives a week, according to a study published Nov. 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare on Nov. 16 established a data science and artificial intelligence center of excellence.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Health, venture studio firm 25Madison and Apollo Global Management launched a joint venture to form a healthcare technology incubator.

Here are five health systems that each launched a new artificial intelligence initiative in November: