Innovation

Melbourne-based Florida Institute of Technology announced plans Oct. 22 to build a new Health Sciences Research Center to serve the biomedical and premedical science fields.

Members of Generation X, defined as those aged 35 to 54 in 2019, beat out all other generational cohorts in their usage of digital health tools to monitor medical conditions and track their health and fitness in a new Redox…

XLerateHealth, a Louisville, Ky.-based accelerator program, received $1.73 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to bolster its network of academic institutions pursuing healthcare innovation.

Fairfax, Va.-based George Mason University opened on Oct. 18 the College of Health and Human Services' Population Health Center to promote innovation in research and clinical care.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System's Icahn School of Medicine announced the launch of its Diversity and Inclusion Hub, in which researchers will use technology and data to address social determinants of health.

More insurers are covering genetic tests for psychiatric medications despite federal warnings and questions surrounding the validity of the tests, according to NPR.

With more than 40 years of experience in the healthcare IT space, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System CIO Avery Cloud has seen the value technology brings to healthcare.

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.

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.