Innovation

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health hopes its hospital-at-home success will encourage more private payers to cover the care model and federal lawmakers to make it a long-term solution. Here are five things to know from a June 2 news release: 1.…

During a recent Becker’s Healthcare webinar hosted by Martti, an Equiti Solution, Andy Schwieter, director of language access services at Cincinnati Children’s, made the case that treating it as infrastructure, not an obligation, is what separates organizations that improve from…

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health and Royal Philips have entered a seven-year strategic alliance covering advanced imaging technology, AI-enabled care and a joint research and co-development agreement across WellSpan’s 12 hospitals, diagnostic imaging centers and ambulatory surgery centers. The commercial agreement…

Laurinburg, N.C.-based Scotland Health Care System was named a finalist for the 2026 American Hospital Association Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award for its health-at-home program. The program includes community health workers visiting patients at home to support medication management…

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health is reporting strong results, including no patient deaths or healthcare-acquired infections, from its first year of hospital at home. Here are five things to know from a June 1 news release: 1. Launched in April 2025,…

Health systems have spent the past two years stress-testing ambient AI scribes, but isolating return on investment has remained difficult due to many overlapping initiatives and a lack of clean attribution paths. Agentic AI is shifting that calculus. When an…

Healthcare AI is leaving its experimental phase behind — most organizations are already using it, and 43% are piloting or testing agentic AI. There are numerous success stories where healthcare organizations deployed AI in pilots or applied AI in a…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Ventures is furthering its investment in digital platform Garner Health, joining a $100 million series E funding round for the care navigation startup. Garner Health uses a proprietary dataset of over 60 billion medical records to…

University Hospitals in Cleveland is partnering with Creative Destruction Lab and Case Western Reserve University to launch a healthcare innovation program designed to help startups test and scale technologies within a real clinical environment. The initiative, called CDL-Cleveland, will host…

From increased reliance on enterprise platforms to deploying AI and virtual reality, health systems recently launched or deepened several relationships with Big Tech companies. Here are 10 collaborations Becker’s reported on in the past month: 1. Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health…