Here are the organizations that announced pilots of new innovation programs or expansions to existing programs during June and July, as reported by Becker’s Hospital Review.
1. Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health expanded care beyond hospital walls with the recent rollout of its tech-powered hospital-at-home program.
2. Mount Sinai Innovation Partners, the New York City-based health system’s commercialization engine, launched Elementa Labs, a virtual incubator program to foster the growth of digital health startups.
3. The State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse completed a yearlong project to test the use of drones in making medical deliveries.
4. Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital and Cerner are launching a digital health innovation accelerator as part of the organizations’ pediatric health IT institute.
5. Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health has entered a 10-year partnership with Siemens Healthineers focused on scaling healthcare innovation, improving workforce development and launching a joint intelligence center.
6. Boston Children’s Hospital formed a five-year collaboration focused on cell and gene therapy technologies and programs with ElevateBio, a Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech startup.
7. Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard University’s biological engineering institute teamed up to establish a new accelerator program that aims to create new diagnostic technologies for clinical care.
8. University Hospitals in Cleveland partnered with Edgility to provide the technology platform for its hospital-at-home offering.
