With healthcare technology expanding in so many different directions, new positions are popping up at health systems that didn't exist even a few short years ago.

Kaiser Permanente Ventures is among the investors in a $75 million series C funding round for Kate Farms, which produces plant-based nutrition for tube or oral feeding.

Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan is partnering with digital health company Eko to develop artificial intelligence that can help diagnose pulmonary hypertension, the firm said Sept. 20.

Advocate Aurora Health's CIO Bobbie Byrne's, MD, top priority is putting her clinicians first, as well as working to move her organization's business intelligence work and analytics to the cloud. 

The Veterans Health Administration has awarded a renewal contract to maintain and modernize its dialysis electronic medical record software to health IT company Document Storage Solutions.

Scratch Financial, which provides lending, payments and communications technology for medical and veterinary care, has raised $35 million in series C funding.

Medtech company Medical 21 has secured up to $20 million from an unnamed investor to accelerate work on the company's cardiac bypass technology.

Telehealth company LifeMD is naming former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal to its board of directors.

Healthcare investment firm Concord Health Partners closed on its $150 million Concord Innovation Fund II.

American Express plans to hire 1,500 tech workers this year, adding to the 3,600 it already brought on in 2022, Bloomberg reported Sept. 19.