Verana Health, a technology startup analyzing clinical data to advance ophthalmic and neurologic care and research, closed a $100 million fundraise led by GV, formerly known as Google Ventures.
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Verily, the life sciences offshoot of Alphabet, has partnered with ophthalmology-focused Santen Pharmaceuticals to establish a joint venture to develop and commercialize new digital tools to improve eye health.
Before dismissing crowdsourcing as a recipe for "a Bermuda Triangle of logistical difficulties, internal politics and professional insecurity," per the Harvard Business Review, consider the vast potential of innovation that builds upon multiple sources of expertise.
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital announced Feb. 3 that it has partnered with Agathos to provide more clinical feedback to physicians in order to improve their patient outcomes.
Every Sunday night John Halamka, MD, flies out of Boston to Rochester, Minn. He stays in a 600-square foot apartment that's about a five-minute walk from Mayo Clinic where he is working as the health system's inaugural president of Mayo…
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Nine decades ago, Hungarian playwright and poet Frigyes Karinthy proposed the concept of "six degrees of separation," in which he maintained that all world citizens are only six or fewer social connections away from one another.
Here are six hospitals and health systems that have distributed innovation funds — to startups, internal projects and venture funds — in the last two weeks, beginning with the most recent:
Sara Vaezy, Providence Digital Innovation Group’s chief digital strategy and business development officer, oversees the sustainable incubation process that has launched three successful ventures to date: Xealth, Circle (acquired by Wildflower Health), and DexCare.
A new drug to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder has become the first compound developed fully by artificial intelligence to enter human clinical trials, the Financial Times reports.
A surefire way to guarantee that an innovation effort will fail is to incorrectly define the type of innovation at its core, according to Kumar Mehta, PhD, principal and founder of innovation think tank Bridges Insight.