Hospitals and health systems across the country are focused on their response to the coronavirus pandemic. In hot spots like Seattle or New York City, hospital CEOs are already in the midst of responding to the crisis; in other communities, executives are developing protocol to prepare for more cases.

A diagnostic tool for rapid COVID-19 testing developed by Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian Health's Center for Discovery and Innovation will now be available to other health systems through a licensing agreement announced March 24.

Putting together the "Innovationeering" series has made me refresh — and occasionally reconstruct — my legacy thinking about the practice of innovation. What has also emerged is the reminder that one of the key characteristics of innovators and the systems they lead is that they must be nimble.

Boston Children’s Hospital Chief Innovation Officer and epidemiologist John Brownstein, MD, collaborated with volunteers to develop a coronavirus tracking website, according to CNBC.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, innovation leaders at hospitals and health systems across the U.S. have been forced to reevaluate their existing strategies and reframe ongoing IT projects to assist with COVID-19 triage and treatment.

Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies are expanding their longstanding partnership to map out immune responses to COVID-19 in hopes of accelerating development of a vaccine, the companies announced March 20.

As a co-founder of healthcare technology startup Kyruus and general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Julie Yoo is something of an anomaly — though she finds being singled out as a rare woman in each field both a blessing and a curse.

The StartX startup community, comprising more than 1,500 physicians, faculty and startup founders from Stanford (Calif.) University and its medical school, has formed a task force to develop and deploy digital health tools to prevent and treat COVID-19.

Three health systems and their spinouts have developed tools to help track, diagnose and accelerate treatment for the coronavirus.

The strategic use of robotic surgery service lines has the potential to help hospitals achieve lower costs while also improving clinical outcomes, patient experience and provider satisfaction.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare is renovating an office complex in downtown Hartford to include an "access center" to manage care coordination and scheduling, as well as a venture studio and telehealth kiosks, the Hartford Courant reports.

Rx.Health launched on March 16 a digital toolkit for hospitals and health systems responding to the coronavirus pandemic, comprising a triage chatbot, artificial intelligence-powered clinical assistant, Microsoft cloud support and more.

The Center for Discovery and Innovation at Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian Health began using a tool on March 12 that combines elements of CDC and World Health Organization diagnostic tools to accelerate test results for COVID-19.

Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, signed on as a tenant of a new medical innovation center under development at the former Michael Reese Hospital site in Chicago, according to a March 12 Chicago Sun-Times report.

In just the last six months, amid rising concerns over Google's data-sharing partnerships with hospitals and health systems, sister company Verily has struck several partnerships of its own with health systems across the U.S.

Everbridge, a global leader in critical event management (CEM), announced on Monday that the company has unveiled new CEM capabilities across the Internet of Things (IoT) for corporate, government and healthcare organizations to protect their people, assets, operations, supply chain and brand from critical events such as coronavirus (COVID-19). 

Lyra Health, a technology platform through which employers can offer workers access to personalized mental health treatment, closed a $75 million funding round with participation from the venture arm of Renton, Wash.-based Providence.

Corporate venture capital funding for digital health startups grew more than 20 percent between 2018 and 2019, led by a steady stream of investments from the venture arms of Kaiser Permanente, Optum, Alphabet and more.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health was honored among Fast Company's list of the top 10 most innovative health companies, a subset of its broader ranking of the world's 50 most innovative companies.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare inked a partnership with the Israel Innovation Authority on March 5 that will bring new healthcare technology innovations to the health system and its surrounding areas, the Hartford Courant reports.