Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health has opened a virtual hospital at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, according to a July 19 news release.

Miami Dade College held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Center for Learning, Innovation and Simulation on its Medical Campus on July 16, the Miami Herald reports.

Rice University celebrated the groundbreaking of the Ion innovation center in Houston's Midtown neighborhood on July 19, the Houston Chronicle reports.

The past 30 days have been busy for Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health's technology and innovation departments.

Even as major companies and health systems such as Starbucks, Walmart, Mount Sinai and Emory Healthcare launch lavish accelerators, incubators and research centers, experts estimate that up to 90 percent of these innovation hubs fail before achieving any real transformation.

Contrary to popular belief, not all new innovations are popularized and disseminated in the same way — that is, with a handful of early adopters kicking off a domino effect of exponential influence.

The Wexford Innovation Complex, a hub for science and technology research and education, broke ground in Providence, R.I., on July 17.

Contrary to the widely held belief that brainstorming sessions should be a time only of "yes, and" — that is, a time free of any criticism or judgment — the most innovative ideas are typically developed through pushback and constructive criticism.

New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery named Leonard Achan its chief innovation officer and senior vice president of innovation and business development in February 2016.

In stark contrast to growing concerns over what the expansion of artificial intelligence will do to society, large tech investors are focused primarily on fostering that expansion by pouring millions of dollars into AI-powered tech startups, CNBC reports.

The next generation of healthcare technology innovators should be prepared to fail early and often — and then to accept that failure, learn from it and move on — according to Todd Brinton, MD, an interventional cardiologist and founder of multiple medical technology startups, who offered his hard-earned advice to aspiring health IT innovators during an address at the 2019 graduation ceremony for Stanford University's Byers Center for Biodesign.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City recently launched the Hauser Institute for Health Innovation in recognition of the more than $50 million philanthropists Rita Hauser and Gustave Hauser have donated to the hospital's telemedicine programs.

The University of Missouri broke ground June 21 on the NextGen Precision Health Institute, which will serve all four of its universities, its affiliated health system and many industry partners and will be based on the Columbia, Mo., campus.