The COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare out of both its macro- and micro-level comfort zones, driving payers to meet consumer demands with innovative solutions, Alan Murray, CEO and president of Empire BlueCross, wrote in an Oct. 15 piece for the Albany…
Innovation
Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina and Clemson (S.C.) University said Oct. 15 they have partnered to launch an artificial intelligence innovation hub.
In the past four weeks, three centers focused on healthcare innovation have been established and plans to build another three centers have been announced.
Two New Jersey hospitals — Edison-based Hackensack Meridian and West Orange-based RWJBarnabas — and two of the state's schools — Princeton University and New Brunswick-based Rutgers University — broke ground Oct. 14 on a hub for research, innovation and medical…
On the heels of a wave-making partnership with Optum, Laura Kaiser, president and CEO of St. Louis-based SSM Health, is looking to leverage the newfound support to transform healthcare.
Caroline Carney, MD, is the CMO of payer services company Magellan Health. A board certified internist and psychiatrist, she and her team are overseeing multiple initiatives designed to target the mental healthcare landscape at depths a simple smartphone app can't…
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson just signed an agreement[1] with the state of New York in June to settle all of the state’s claims against the company related to the opioid epidemic in exchange for $263 million in funding for…
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City launched a department focused on advancing artificial intelligence in healthcare. Here are five things to know:
Artificial intelligence-powered predictive analytics tools can improve hospital operations by optimizing capacity demands, alerting care teams of patients who may be at risk for adverse events and anticipating supply shortages, among other uses.
The University of California-Irvine and health IT startup Syntropy have unveiled a five-year partnership to use data to innovate UCI Health Affairs, health research, and how hospitals integrate and contextualize data.