Coral Gables, Fla.-based health system Baptist Health South Florida has selected Innovaccer Health Cloud to provide population health analytics, provider engagement and care management for the health system.

Babylon, which offers an artificial intelligence-powered virtual care app, has largely left the U.K., where it is headquartered, in favor of the U.S. market, Wired reported Aug. 23.

True Captive Insurance is partnering with Walmart Health Virtual Care to launch myTrueMD, a new virtual-first insurance plan for employers.

Twelve hospitals and hundreds of clinics that are part of Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine were recently recognized by HIMSS for EHR adoption.

Northwell Holdings, the venture arm of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, participated in a $4.1 million seed funding round for Violet, a platform that provides cultural competency training for clinicians. 

As healthcare organizations faced an increase in cybersecurity threats, HHS, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency increased their efforts to support, inform and advise the healthcare industry of possible threats and how to amp up security measures.

There have been more than 400 healthcare patents filed in the metaverse as people look to the virtual reality platform to improve the healthcare industry, yet the platform is still underdeveloped, Politico reported Aug. 24. 

Fresenius Health Partners, InterWell Health and Cricket Health have completed a three-way merger to create an independent $2.4 billion company. 

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health has started construction on a 60,000-square-foot virtual care center the health system says will expand services to its largely rural patient population.

2022 has been a tough year for the tech industry. Tens of thousands of employees have been laid off. Companies from Big Tech to digital health startups have been hit hard by the market changes.