Eric Yablonka, the former CIO of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care, on Dec. 2 joined the advisory board of Health2047, the American Medical Association's innovation subsidiary.

Time released its "100 Best Inventions of 2021" list, and it featured several healthcare technologies.

Optimizing the revenue cycle is a top priority for many healthcare providers. To do this, many organizations are turning to robotic process automation to reduce inefficiency and free up human resources.

Foster City, Calif.-based biotech Gilead chose Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud provider, the companies announced Nov. 29.

From their thoughts on how to implement the right tech-enabled healthcare tools to what sets their digital strategy apart from others, here are five quotes about the role of innovation in healthcare that hospital executives shared with Becker's Hospital Review in November:

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has implemented new technology to reduce nurses' daily workload: twin clinical assistant robots named Moxi, the health system said in a Nov. 29 blog post. 

Six recent partnerships between healthcare organizations and Big Tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft: 

UC Davis Health is looking to improve digital health innovation and equity through launching a cloud innovation center powered by Amazon Web Services, it announced Nov. 29.

The pandemic spurred significant investment in healthcare artificial intelligence, with $8.5 billion being raised in 2021 so far, according to a CBInsights report published Nov. 24. 

Luma Health, a patient engagement platform used by Banner Health and MontefioreMedical Center, raised $130 million in a Series C funding round.

Here are seven recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives accelerating innovation efforts at healthcare organizations. 

Appointment scheduling represents a complex mathematical problem for infusion centers, which is often handled using linear logic. There is a better way.

The University of California Los Angeles developed an artificial intelligence technology designed to help clinicians and labs examine skin samples without performing a biopsy, according to a Nov. 18 report published in Light: Science & Applications.

Several CIOs from health systems including Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai and SCL Health have signed on as advisors to a new innovation venture focused on growing healthcare and government tech companies, according to a Nov. 18 news release. 

Amazon partnered with clinical communication platform Vocera Communications to develop a HIPAA-eligible Alexa skill for hospitals to enable patients to submit voice requests to their clinics via the device.

From at-home dialysis machines to edible barcodes on drugs to deter fraud, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated innovation in health IT. Of the hundreds of new companies and technologies that developed during the pandemic, Fast Company selected 10 healthcare companies that created innovations related to medical challenges, according to a Nov. 18 report.

The FDA recently authorized marketing of EaseVRx, a prescription-use virtual reality system to treat chronic lower back pain, the agency said Nov. 16. 

The venture capital arm of St. Louis-based Ascension led a $77 million funding round for Cala Health, a Burlingame, Calif.-based company that makes bioelectronic medical devices.

Linus Biotechnology, a spinoff of New York City-based Mount Sinai Innovation Partners and a precision exposome medicine company, is slated to develop a tech platform with exposome sequencing.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health and startup studio Aegis Ventures formed a joint venture to launch artificial intelligence companies that address healthcare equity, costs and quality. Becker's Hospital Review spoke with Richard Mulry, the president and CEO of the hospital's venture arm, Northwell Holdings, about the joint venture and projects it is developing.