Innovation

The U.S. has led the world in innovation since the end of World War II, but that dominance is now threatened by other nations' own skyrocketing investments in technology, according to a new report from the Aspen Cybersecurity Group.

Durham, N.C.-based Duke University and Duke Health announced Sept. 30 the launch of their new center to develop technologies for researching the human genome's connection with common diseases.

WakeMed Health & Hospitals implemented predictive analytics software from Pera Health, a software-as-a-service company, that sorts through EHR data to identify potential predictors for decline in a patient's health.

The Los Angeles-based University of Southern California will begin offering a health innovation minor in the spring 2020 semester, campus newspaper the Daily Trojan reports.

Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane announced on Oct. 1 three upcoming projects to expand its campus to accommodate growing innovation, research and collaboration efforts.

Ajax Health, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup, announced the close of a $100 million financing round for its third venture fund, which will be used to invest in other healthcare startups.

The National Institutes of Health distributed a total of $20 million to five proof-of-concept biomedical innovation centers, expanding its Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs program.

Six winners were named in a pitch competition for medical devices designed to improve care in the neonatal intensive care unit at the seventh annual Pediatric Device Innovation Symposium, hosted by Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Hospital.

The University of Texas at Austin announced a collaboration between its McCombs School of Business and Dell Medical School that will advance local healthcare startups' innovation efforts.

Richard Zane, MD, UCHealth chief innovation officer, and Steven Hess, UCHealth chief information officer and head of the CARE Innovation Center Applied Decision Science Lab, launched the UCHealth CARE Innovation Center in Aurora, Colo., in 2016. The center, located on…