The U.S. Department of Justice awarded a $4 million grant to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' Institute for Digital Health and Innovation for an initiative to improve sexual assault treatment in rural hospitals.

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health was granted approval to develop its innovation district in Fairfax, Va.

Innovation is not merely a synonym for brainstorming, but should instead describe the process of developing actual life-changing solutions, according to James Madara, MD, CEO and executive vice president of the American Medical Association.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center will serve as one of four co-leaders of the FDA's new Sentinel Innovation Center, part of the FDA's national electronic safety surveillance program.

Douglas Wood, MD, has served as the medical director of the innovation and design team within Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic's Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery since 2013.

Milwaukee-based Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin announced on Oct. 16 the public launch of the Hope to Health campaign, which aims to raise $225 million to support healthcare innovation efforts, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Madera, Calif.-based Valley Children's Healthcare announced Oct. 16 a new partnership between its innovation program and The Innovation Institute.

Seattle Children's announced on Oct. 15 the opening of its Building Cure biomedical research center in the "biotech corridor" of downtown Seattle.

The four largest research institutions in San Antonio announced on Oct. 15 the formation of a partnership to provide a collective $800,000 to fund a collaborative initiative in precision therapeutics.

Mike Minear brings more than 40 years of experience in health information technology to his role as senior vice president and CIO at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa.

Blacksburg-based Virginia Tech launched its largest-ever fundraising campaign on Oct. 11, with a goal of raising $1.5 billion to support innovative research and education in health sciences, technology, data analytics and more.

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield's corporate investment and innovation organization, Healthworx, has partnered with the Washington, D.C.-based Halcyon incubator program to provide funding and support for healthcare entrepreneurs.

With a goal of becoming the world's most consumer-centric company, Amazon is well-known for prioritizing innovation above all else — a mission achieved by focusing on six core strategies.

The Washington, D.C.-based Advanced Medical Technology Association, a trade association and lobbying group, established on Oct. 14 its Center for Digital Health to advance tech- and data-driven care delivery.

Benjamin Hohmuth, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System, sees innovation as new ways to tackle relevant problems rather than an opportunity to deploy new technology.

Bayer added 11 digital health startups to its G4A Digital Health Partnerships program, which provides funding and commercial guidance to early-stage companies developing digital healthcare solutions.

The University of California San Francisco's Health Hub, an innovation and startup studio, announced on Oct. 11 the winners of its inaugural Digital Health Awards.

As senior vice president and chief transformation officer, Peter Fleischut, MD, leads NewYork-Presbyterian's innovation efforts by prioritizing the people and the process at the forefront, rather than on the underlying technology.

University of California Santa Cruz received $8.5 million from an anonymous donor in support of the organization's genomics institute.

Four health IT leaders discussed their strategies and innovations for the consumerization of healthcare and digital experience in 2020 during a keynote panel at the Becker's Hospital Review Health IT + RCM conference on Oct. 9.