Cowen Healthcare Investments raised $555.6 million to close on its fourth fund targeting healthcare. 

Some Colorado hospitals are backing a cancer diagnostics startup as part of a $58.75 million funding round.

Consumerism has taken over healthcare. Patients are in the driver's seat, and they are demanding high-quality customer service and more personalized experiences aided by digital tools.

DarioHealth, a digital health company focusing on chronic conditions, announced the pricing of a $14.3 million private placement of stock.

An emergency room physician at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., won the health system's inaugural Innovator of the Year award for advancing a handheld ultrasound technology.

John Brownstein, PhD, chief innovation officer of Boston Children's, told Becker's that the organization is hiring a prompt engineer to work on large language models such as ChatGPT so that it can identify use cases and train its workforce on the most appropriate uses for the emerging technology. 

Former executives from Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare and retail pharmacy giant Walgreens were among the entities that joined in a $15 million investment round for medtech company Kinnos.

Healthcare innovation firm Patient Square Capital launched medtech incubator Elevage Medical Technologies with $300 million to invest.

Executives at Peoria, Ill-based OSF HealthCare say their $50 million medical simulation and innovation center has brought a return on investment of much more than that — and helped advance healthcare in ways that haven't been realized yet.

Odaia, a company developing an artificial intelligence-powered pharmaceutical platform, raised $25 million in series B financing.

Biopharma investors are staying focused on the oncology and immunology sectors as major mergers fuel growth in those areas, according to an April 30 report from The Compass.

Morgan Health, the healthcare venture arm of JPMorgan, invested $25 million into Kindbody, a tech-focused fertility clinic network and benefits provider.

Hospital-at-home programs have grown to more than 250 around the country as hospitals — and patients — have gotten more comfortable moving care to the home, NPR reported.

Medtech company Healint is partnering with the Saitama Medical University Hospital in Japan to test how artificial intelligence could be used to diagnose migraines.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has a sizable venture capital arm and has been active in the health IT market.

Practice Better, a practice management software company, received a $27 million growth investment led by Five Elms Capital.

UChicago Medicine's Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation entered into a multiyear agreement with Illinois Tech's Institute of Design to use human-centered design to improve the patient experience and reduce inequities. 

From using artificial intelligence to predict missed appointments to exploring how it can make care more personalized for patients, here is how six hospitals and health systems are using the technology to improve patient care and operational efficiency: 

Leaders from Best Buy, GE HealthCare and Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Medical Center say they expect hospital-at-home to be widespread in the near future, Fortune reported April 26.

Digital Transformation Playbook for Health System Executives