Innovation

The Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota and Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital received a five-year, $26 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a bioengineering research center.

University of Southern California received $1.2 million from the National Institutes of Health for its project that aims to apply digital health tools to reduce health disparities among underrepresented populations.

Chicago-based Rush University Health System teamed up with revenue cycle services provider R1 to launch an innovation lab this week to improve value-based care and advanced analytics.

Google Cloud AI partnered with the Harvard Global Health Institute to develop the COVID-19 Public Forecasts, a dashboard that provides 13-day projections for hospitalizations and death rates across all 50 states.

Since announcing its strategic alliance to build a high-tech hospital with Microsoft in July 2019, Providence has zeroed in on innovations in patient care delivery, virtual communication tools and artificial intelligence across its Renton, Wash.-based health system. 

Researchers at Pittsburgh-based UPMC and University of Pittsburgh developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can accurately identify and categorize prostate cancer within scans of patient tissue.

An augmented reality tool developed by researchers at West Lafayette, Ind.-based Purdue University could improve outcomes for surgeries performed by medics in severe settings, such as war zones.

Using mobile data, University of South Florida data scientists developed a predictive analytics model to examine where new COVID-19 patients will surge, according to a report from News Channel 8, an NBC affiliate.

Partnerships between big technology companies and health systems are becoming more common, especially as health systems seek to optimize systems integration, data storage and analytical capabilities.

The pandemic has changed how healthcare executives approach innovation and the perception of what is possible.