New Orleans-based Ochsner Health's venture capital arm, Ochsner Ventures, is launching a $10 million innovation fund aimed at investing in early-stage and health-related companies based in Louisiana.

Mayo Clinic and Northwell Health are investing in a robotics startup that the health systems' leaders say can "radically change" the industry.

Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth led a $10 million funding round for a patient access startup the health system says can create a "more seamless and integrated" healthcare experience.

Some refer to generative AI's tendency to spew wrong information as "hallucinating" or "making stuff up." These researchers call it "botsh-t."

Kansas City-based University of Kansas Medical Center researchers found ChatGPT can accurately summarize journal article abstracts, allowing physicians to stay up to date on medical knowledge in less time.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has grown into the country's largest Catholic provider of care at home.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is partnering with Instacart, a grocery technology company, to expand fresh food access for underserved communities.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has expanded its home health agency on Hawaii Island.

Health system executives are focused on digital and artificial intelligence, but many say they lack the organizational commitment, resources or planning to invest in the technologies, McKinsey & Co. reported July 15.

What if a denied prior authorization request could be appealed using ChatGPT? It's an idea being discussed at Grady Health in Atlanta.

Health systems like Oregon Health and Sciences University, Johns Hopkins Health System and Tampa General Hospital are implementing command centers in a bid to centralize decision-making, Deloitte reported July 15. 

Crescent Regional Hospital in Lancaster, Texas, is using 3D hologram technology in a bid to improve access to care for patients. 

The No. 1 challenge for providing hospital-at-home care is logistical — rather than medical — in nature, a health system leader told Becker's.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has inked an innovation partnership with a hospital in India.

Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare's St. Joseph Hospital in Tampa, Fla., is the second system to use Amazon's Just Walk Out technology in its cafe, the Tampa Bay Times reported July 11.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is backing an artificial intelligence startup that scans EHR data to arm providers with clinical insights and potential diagnoses.

After receiving funding from Amazon Web Services, Children's National is looking to hire 30 additional positions within its organization in order to advance its artificial intelligence work, Washington Business Journal reported July 11. 

As a leader of one of the nation's largest home hospitals, I urge Congress to pass, and the president to sign, a five-year extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver before it expires at the end of this year. Failure to do so could create a major disruption for the thousands of patients receiving this care and for the hundreds of home hospitals nationwide.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham's innovation strategy includes digital transformation and artificial intelligence but largely focuses on therapeutics.

In an interactive session at Becker's 21st Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC + The Future of Spine Conference, Molly Van Oordt, director of specialty solutions, NextGen Healthcare, led a discussion on technology innovation in orthopedics with Bob Murry, PhD, MD, chief medical officer for NextGen Healthcare, and Keith Nord, MD, orthopedic hand surgeon at Sports, Orthopedics and Spine (Jackson, Tenn.).