UCLA Health, Cedars-Sinai and more are accelerating their adoption of artificial intelligence to help them interpret data, build predictive models, streamline tasks and procedures, and to enhance communication with patients. 

Ascension Ventures, part of St. Louis-based Ascension, and CVS Health Ventures participated in a $166 million funding round May 31 for Strive Health, a tech-enabled kidney care provider that focuses on value-based care.

Hospitals, physicians and medical educators in Boston are all making use of ChatGPT and its generative artificial intelligence capabilities, the Boston Globe reported.

The venture capital arms of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health and Cleveland-based University Hospitals joined in a $20 million series B financing round for clinical workforce intelligence company Axuall.

In the six months since the world was introduced to ChatGPT on Nov. 30, researchers have been testing the artificial intelligence chatbot in myriad ways to find out its potential effects on everything from how well it can write a college essay to whether or not it will be useful to physicians and hospitals.

Johnson & Johnson Innovation, the venture capital and incubator arm of Johnson & Johnson, named biotherapeutics company Ceramedix a resident company. 

Carrum Health, a value-based care platform, raised $45 million in an oversubscribed series B financing round.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has a large healthcare presence in Florida and a sizable venture capital arm to match.

Amazon is searching for a head of medical affairs to join a special projects team working on a "completely new, best-in-class medical device product."

Cardiac monitoring company HeartBeam entered into a strategic alliance with tech giant Samsung.

Amazon subsidiary One Medical plans to open its 11th clinic in the Washington, D.C., area, expanding its partnership with Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health, ARLNow reported May 24.

Hospitals continue to seek out Big Tech companies to expand their digital health and EHR capabilities.

St. Paul, Minn.-based Gillette Children's is using artificial intelligence technology to automate its scheduling, pre-visit registration, appointment reminders and clinical intake forms.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital is looking to expand its hospital-at-home program after one year of operation in order to treat transplant patients, Fox affiliate WTVT reported May 23. 

The University of Texas at Arlington's 150,000-square-foot Health Innovation and Smart Hospital features artificial intelligence-powered robots, virtual reality simulators and classrooms designed to mimic hospital units and patients' homes, D Magazine reported May 23.

Massachusetts General Hospital accused a former researcher of stealing trade secrets for a fat-freezing technology, obtaining a patent for the technology without giving the hospital credit and sharing information on a confidential deal.

Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System plans to invest $100 million over the next decade in digital health and other startups to help build the "innovations that our patients need the most," its digital chief told Becker's.

Five health system nursing leaders have been named advisors at virtual nursing company AvaSure.

Arlington-based Texas Health Resources is the third health system to join the Dandelion Consortium to advance healthcare artificial intelligence.

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health has tapped an artificial intelligence spinoff from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham to automate bedside medical coding.