From healthcare innovation start-ups to hack-a-thons, the latter part of March brought a range of partnerships and programs launched across hospitals and healthcare systems.
Here are 13 recent partnerships reported by Becker’s since March 15:
- LifeBridge Health and CareFirst BlueCross Baltimore-based BlueShield has added seven healthcare startups to its joint health technology incubator, 1501 Health.
- Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minn., has launched a 20-week program to prepare healthcare AI startups to enter the market in partnership with Epic and Google.
- Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida has launched its first start-up focused on motion abnormality detection.
- Four Arkansas health systems have joined a new technology innovation program at the University of Arkansas.
- Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare has partnered with artificial intelligence diagnostics company Ibex Medical Analytics to create a research and innovation collaboration.
- LG has opened a technology and education hub focused on commercial displays and devices designed for healthcare to provide healthcare providers with hands-on experience before investing in medical devices.
- Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University hosted a Hack for Health innovation hackathon that aimed to accelerate innovation in healthcare.
- Mayo Clinic has signed a multi-year commercial agreement with Pramana, an artificial intelligence-based health technology company focused on pathology.
- GE Healthcare is developing a digital health platform that it says will accelerate the speed of digital transformation for hospitals and healthcare systems.
- Mayo Clinic will use an artificial intelligence natural language processing tool from Google to better track and analyze language information in patient EHRs.
- New York-based Mount Sinai has partnered with former Google quantum technology company Sandbox AQ to protect millions of patient records using encryption technology.
- Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida will launch its first startup that uses body motion recognition technology to develop a platform that diagnoses movement abnormalities.
- Allscripts’ Veradigm, a provider of healthcare technology and data solutions, has reached an agreement with the US Social Security Administration to expedite the processing of patient medical records.