Innovation

CU Healthcare Innovation Fund secured $50 million in committed capital to invest in early stage healthcare companies.

Castell, the value-based care company formed by Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, recently teamed up with Arcadia for artificial intelligence and analytics support.

University of North Florida was granted $6 million to launch a health innovation network, which will connect the Jacksonville-based system with partners including Mayo Clinic and AdventHealth, according to a July 2 news release. 

A research collaborative led by the University of California Berkeley has been awarded a $20 million five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a chemical innovation research center.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals partnered with NASA to create technologies and methods to decontaminate personal protective equipment for aerospace applications and COVID-19 front-line workers.

Provo, Utah-based Brigham Young University researchers developed a low-cost digital stethoscope that can live stream or record a patient's heartbeat from up to 50 feet away, according to local news affiliate KSTU.

Many health systems have built tools and dashboards to track the spread of COVID-19 and project where new outbreaks will occur.

Paul Rothman, MD, CEO of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and dean of the medical faculty at Johns Hopkins University, discussed the health system's COVID-19 data platform and the potential for artificial intelligence to make a difference in how health systems…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic launched a new innovation initiative to support entrepreneurs in the healthcare space.

Health systems and their venture capital arms have invested millions in digital health technologies and startups over the past six months.