As artificial intelligence proliferates and virtual nursing expands, hospitals and health systems have been highly focused on innovation. Here are 17 projects Becker's reported on in the past month.
— Cleveland Clinic opened a hospital outfitted with private 5G to allow for greater, more secure connectivity and a "digital hospital" experience.
— Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has created more than 160 AI algorithms, 40 of which have been deployed in patient care, The Washington Post reported July 12.
— Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Medicine is partnering with venture capital group Northpond Ventures to launch a new innovation lab.
— Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has begun offering digital mental health support from NeuroFlow to its patients and 36,000 employees.
— Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health researchers have been selected to lead a national consortium to explore how AI and machine learning can enhance treatment for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia and sepsis.
— Virtual nursing has grown to 10 hospitals and 40 inpatient units within West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health, KWWL reported.
— Google is testing its AI-powered chatbot designed to answer medical questions, Med-PaLM 2, at Mayo Clinic, The Wall Street Journal reported July 8.
— Pittsburgh-based UPMC has created a machine-learning platform that can accurately predict which patients are at high risk of complications after surgery.
— Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network plans to pilot Israeli healthcare startups under an agreement with the Israel Innovation Authority signed July 7.
— Orlando (Fla.) Health has equipped more than 200 nurses with a mobile app from Epic that allows them to access patient information on the go, Positively Osceola reported.
— Memorial Hermann Health System, based in Houston, invested in Memora Health, a care enablement platform that uses AI and natural language processing to digitize clinical workflows.
— Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System has started a virtual nursing pilot and plans to roll out the technology to eight more hospitals by the first quarter of 2024, nursing leaders told Becker's.
— ChatGPT excels at picking the correct imaging test for patients with breast pain or needing breast cancer screening, researchers at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham found.
— Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health has created a generative AI-based internal chatbot using Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service.
— Coral Gables-based Baptist Health South Florida has launched a program to develop health tech startups in partnership with an Israeli hospital.
— New Orleans-based Ochsner Health is installing Aidoc's clinical AI platform.
— DexCare, a digital patient booking platform spun out of Renton, Wash.-based Providence, raised $75 million in a funding round that saw participation from Kaiser Permanente Ventures.