Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health is launching the HCA Healthcare Mission Fund, a $25 million trust to support innovation initiatives among western North Carolina's healthcare-related small businesses.
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DaVita created a new venture to invest in, develop and launch products for patients with kidney disease and related conditions.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego received a five-year, $54.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to make clinical trials safer by integrating research and clinical care.
Uncertainty breeds innovation, and these are among the most uncertain times in healthcare.
London-based artificial intelligence startup Benevolent AI used automated language tools to comb through an interconnected database of coronavirus-related biological processes and scientific research to identify a drug that might possibly treat COVID-19, according to The New York Times.
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Tampa General Hospital and AdventHealth are among a group of 51 Florida hospitals that have developed a joint interactive dashboard to share COVID-19 clinical data.
David Sylvan, president of UH Ventures, the innovation and commercialization arm of University Hospitals in Cleveland, sees innovation as essential during the pandemic.
Healthcare providers across the U.S. and around the world are finding new applications for robotic technology to care for COVID-19 patients.
Innovation is an important aspect of caring for COVID-19 patients and Tampa General Hospital is involved in several national efforts, as well as independent research, to find potential treatments.
Michelle Stansbury, vice president of innovation at Houston Methodist, sees digital health technology and innovation as integral aspects of the health system's strategy to treat patients today and post-pandemic.