Here are seven 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:
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UPMC's innovation, commercialization and venture capital arm plans to funnel a total of $1 billion into the development of new drugs, diagnostics and devices by 2024, the Pittsburgh-based health system announced Jan. 14.
The American Medical Association announced on Jan. 14 an initiative launched in partnership with investment platform RedCrow to build collaborations between physicians and healthcare startups.
An analytics-driven platform will be Mayo Clinic Platform's first venture, with an aim of using advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence to develop new treatments for disease, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic announced Jan. 14.
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The Small Business Innovation Research program, which sets aside federal funds for promising early-stage companies, must be strengthened if the U.S. hopes to continue producing massively successful tech giants, argues an op-ed in The Hill.
R. Martin Chavez, PhD, a former Goldman Sachs executive who left the investment bank at the end of 2019, has joined the board of directors of Paige, a startup developing artificial intelligence for cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Despite frequent reports that much of American innovation is centered in large urban regions such as Silicon Valley, New York City and Boston, a new report published in Research Policy suggests rural areas and smaller cities across the nation are just…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has partnered with a California genomics company to develop a genomic database that could help physicians and researchers discover health conditions, according to the West Central Tribune.
Kaizen Health, a startup helping healthcare providers schedule non-emergency medical transportation for patients, announced on Jan. 8 the close of its Series B funding round, led by Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health's investment arm.