Four health tech companies were awarded a $1 billion remote patient monitoring contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Trinity Life Sciences, a life sciences commercialization company, promoted Leslie Orne from chief commercial officer to CEO.

ChatGPT scored less than 30 percent on the American Urological Association's Self Study Program for Urology, a 150-question practice exam widely used by urologists in training.

Many hospitals and health systems are opening new centers dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence in healthcare. Here are three hospitals and health systems who have announced plans to open new AI dedicated centers, as reported by Becker's since May 8:

Google has emerged as a major healthcare disruptor, and GV, a venture capital arm now independent from Google, has been extremely active in the healthcare sector since 2009.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics has partnered with artificial intelligence-powered spatial biology company Nucleai to support drug development using AI.

On a recent day, Mary Conrad showed off the hospital inside her Illinois home: a touchscreen tablet, an IV pole, a box of medical supplies.

Digital life sciences company Mend raised $15 million in a series A financing round.

NYU Langone Health, based in New York City, is partnering with healthcare investment firm Deerfield Management Company to commercialize its biomedical discoveries. 

With more health systems capitalizing on generative artificial intelligence, the American Hospital Association released four tips for hospitals looking to incorporate generative AI tools into their workflows.

MedTech Innovator, an accelerator of medtech companies, named 61 startups to its four-month acceleration program.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence is rolling out a new virtual nursing program across eight hospitals after a successful pilot at a Texas facility.

Conformal Medical, a devicemaker focused on left atrial appendage occlusion technology, raised $35 million in series D financing.

The Health AI Partnership, a first-of-its-kind collaborative to develop best practices for artificial intelligence in healthcare, is seeking input from clinicians through June 16, the American Medical Association reported.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, based in Lebanon, N.H., is getting a $2 million center that will focus on precision medicine and artificial intelligence. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic's new clinical spaces, part of a $1 billion expansion, will interact with data from patient wearables, the StarTribune reported June 5.

23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki joined a $30 million investment round for Helium Health, an African healthcare technology financing company, TechCrunch reported June 5.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, when healthcare organizations created service line strategies, they typically only revisited them on occasion to make incremental adjustments.

Hospitals and health systems are increasing their investments in innovation efforts to spur news ideas and advance technology-enabled innovation.

Several health systems and tech companies were named founding members of CancerX, a digital health project that is part of the Biden administration's "cancer moonshot" initiative to cure the disease.