The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $6.5 million to expand telehealth services and harm-reduction resources within West Virginia's Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Sit-based Program, according to local NBC affiliate WTAP.
Innovation
Though it has since been formally rebranded as the Center for Innovation, Houston Methodist's innovation team can't seem to shake its tongue-in-cheek nickname: the D.I.O.P group, short for "Digital Innovation-Obsessed People."
Microsoft and Nuance announced Oct. 17 that they are teaming up to create the "exam room of the future" using artificial intelligence and other technologies.
Innovation in healthcare isn’t always about finding a new piece of artificial intelligence or adding shiny equipment to the operating room. Sometimes, it’s as simple as changing a process to improve the patient experience: Like allowing them to schedule appointments…
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine received a $10 million gift from Tadataka Yamada, MD, and Leslie D. Yamada to fund a new University of Michigan Center for Global Health Equity.
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The Hartford, Conn.-based Digital Health CT accelerator program announced on Oct. 16 its inaugural cohort of 10 startups developing a range of healthcare technology solutions spanning artificial intelligence, precision medicine and more.
Not only can organic, internal innovation drive greater growth than external value grabs such as acquisitions, but it will also establish for an organization and its leaders a reputation as forward-thinking and entrepreneurially minded.
Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health was granted approval to develop its innovation district in Fairfax, Va.
Innovation is not merely a synonym for brainstorming, but should instead describe the process of developing actual life-changing solutions, according to James Madara, MD, CEO and executive vice president of the American Medical Association.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center will serve as one of four co-leaders of the FDA's new Sentinel Innovation Center, part of the FDA's national electronic safety surveillance program.