Innovation

From hospitals to universities to municipalities, here are the five latest entities launching healthcare innovation programs as covered by Becker's Hospital Review in the last 30 days.

Baton Rouge, La., secured a collective $1.2 million in federal and private-sector funding to launch Health-Tech Catalyst, a three-year healthcare innovation initiative, according to The Advocate.

Healthcare workforce artificial intelligence startup Olive closed $106 million in a financing round that included participation from St. Louis-based Ascension's healthcare venture fund, according to a Sept. 17 news release. 

As the people who lead digital transformation strategies for the country's top hospitals and healthcare organizations, healthcare innovation leaders need to have a clear, zealous framework guiding their plans to improve healthcare via technology.

Artificial intelligence will play a larger role in healthcare organizations in the future, predict six health system leaders; but not all promises about the technology will come to fruition.

The cloud-based data warehousing platform provider Snowflake set the record for the year's largest IPO on Sept. 16, and it's three times more than the previous record for a software IPO set by VMware in 2007, according to a Nasdaq…

Researchers from organizations including Boston Children's Hospital and Johns Hopkins University are developing robotic technologies that aim to automate surgical tasks, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Stanford (Calif.) University researchers are analyzing and testing artificial intelligence-powered systems that give off alerts in "smart" hospitals to help clinicians better monitor and treat patients while decreasing fatal medical errors.

Hospital innovation executives didn't land their roles by being professionally complacent; in fact, they are usually curious people with a drive to improve themselves as well as their organizations.

Hospital professionals are often so busy they can't even take lunch breaks, but breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning can help make their days a bit easier so they can better focus on providing patients with optimal care.