Innovation

National Institutes of Health awarded a two-year, $1.25 million grant to Columbia-based University of South Carolina to create a statewide data system to monitor COVID-19 spread and virology.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health is using deidentified cellphone, public health and health system data to forecast COVID-19 surges nationwide.

Myra Davis became the CIO and chief innovation officer at Texas Children's Hospital in 2019, overseeing a culture change to promote new ideas within the largest pediatric center in the nation.

Microsoft is using an experimental data center located 117 feet under the sea in Scotland to process data workloads that are part of a global computing project aimed at developing a COVID-19 vaccine.

The National Institutes of Health will use its "All of Us" precision medicine research database to power COVID-19 initiatives including antibody testing, online surveys and EHR data collection.

The University of California, Davis named the winners of its 2020 Chancellor's Innovation Awards June 15, highlighting its faculty and community partners' achievements in healthcare innovation.

Companies often experience growth as a result of a steady flow of small changes over time rather than standalone breakthroughs, according to recent analysis from Fast Company.

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic have developed the first prediction model to forecast the likelihood of patients testing positive for COVID-19 and the potential disease outcomes.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has developed a tool to track COVID-19 cases that is the first of its kinds to utilize historic weather data, according to The Philadelphia Citizen.

With the National Institutes of Health's COVID-19 research publication database nearing 30,000 articles available, University of California Berkeley and Google are just two of numerous organizations developing artificial intelligence tools to help clinicians and researchers sift through the literature, according…