Within healthcare, technology has a purpose: to improve patient care. At Stanford (Calif.) Health Care, CIO Eric Yablonka is focused on leveraging technology to improve the patient and clinician experience.
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Brian Holzer, MD, serves as both president of Louisville, Ky.-based Kindred Healthcare's innovation arm and CEO of Kindred Innovations' first spinout company, Lacuna Health.
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has tapped KenSci's artificial intelligence-powered platform to provide predictive insights that will be used to improve efficiency, patient satisfaction and overall care quality and outcomes.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey awarded a $50,000 grant to AtlantiCare to fund a pilot project providing non-emergency medical transportation to the Atlantic City, N.J.-based health system's eligible patients.
Software company TPP has developed artificial intelligence that can help oncologists detect ovarian cancer earlier than physicians, according to CNBC.
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Rather than a linear, top-down approach in which leaders choose projects for teams to carry out, innovation has become more of an "ecosystem" activity, in which leaders build an environment that fosters innovation, then sit back and let it happen.
When examining innovation in healthcare delivery, the perspective of community hospitals can be overlooked. While they may not have the largest footprint, small to midsized community and critical access hospitals are essential to in the U.S. healthcare system. Fourteen percent…
An artificial intelligence-enabled digital stethoscope equipped with a single-lead ECG accurately identified low ejection fraction in a test of 100 patients, according to new research from Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and AI devicemaker Eko.
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has received an HHS grant to build a second "big omics data engine," named BODE 2, to advance translational bioinformatics research and data-enabled clinical care.
Configo Health, a company developing artificial intelligence-powered data analytics solutions for pediatric healthcare facilities, launched Nov. 18 with the announcement of Texas Children's Hospital and Children's National Hospital as founding investors.