Innovation

Health insurer Centene has pledged $100 million to Washington University in St. Louis to advance research on personalized treatments for conditions like Alzheimer's, breast cancer, diabetes and obesity.

Lawrence Berkeley (Calif.) National Laboratory researchers are applying artificial intelligence and analytics to EHR data to help the Department of Veterans Affairs identify veterans' risk of suicide.

Amazon has developed a system that can automatically remove patients' identifying protected health information from medical images used in research, according to a company blog post published by James Wiggins, Amazon Web Services senior healthcare solutions architect.

U.K.-based researchers developed an artificial intelligence-powered system to calculate the risk of early death among middle-aged chronic disease patients, according to a study published in PLOS One.

Microsoft Healthcare is teaming up with Spiral Genetics, a DNA analysis startup, to identify correlations between the human genome and heart disease characteristics, GeekWire reports.

Stanford (Calif.) University is opening the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, an interdisciplinary hub for research, policy and education on AI that improves the human condition.

Cleveland Clinic formed the Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence to propel use of the technology in healthcare areas including diagnostics, disease prediction and treatment planning.

Phoenix-based Akos Med Clinics opened five new artificial intelligence-powered clinics in Safeway supermarket stores across Arizona.

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., is embarking upon a three-year partnership with IBM Watson Health to develop predictive algorithms for cardiovascular diseases.

IBM Watson Health is planning to invest $50 million over 10 years to support research collaborations at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.