The publication surveyed 50 children’s hospitals and more than 200 innovations to select the top hospitals. Here are the winners and the technology they’re developing:
1. Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio): Appendectomy alternative
2. Children’s Mercy Kansas City (Mo.): A wellness screening device that doesn’t require weight
3. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta: Anemia detection app
4. Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston): Less invasive method for fetoscopic spinal bifida surgery
5. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (Calif.): Approach to accelerate matching a heart donor with a child who needs a transplant
6. Children’s Medical Center at NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island: New approach to feeding babies born prematurely to reduce dysphasia
7. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: Gene sequencing for precision medicine in children
8. Dayton (Ohio) Children’s Hospital: Pre-op rooms and plans for autistic patients
9. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles: Strategies to reduce opioid abuse and family education
10. Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital (Ann Arbor, Mich.): A handheld genetic sequencing device to monitor tumors
11. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, Tenn): A system to build immunity in cancer patients
12. Children’s Wisconsin (Milwaukee): Therapy for children’ with irritable bowel syndrome
13. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh: Gene therapy for type 1 diabetes
14. Seattle Children’s Hospital: Therapies for cancer patients
15. Boston Children’s Hospital: Treatment for sickle cell disease
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