In the two years since its launch, Hackensack Meridian Health’s violence prevention program has provided medical, financial and emotional aid to more than 400 victims of violence. Government officials have taken note of this — the program recently gained $3 million in federal and state grants.

Google Cloud unveiled a new product suite to make medical imaging data more interoperable and useful via artificial intelligence. Hackensack Meridian Health has begun using it to detect metastasis in prostate cancer patients earlier, and Hologic is using it to strengthen its diagnostic platform that screens women for cervical cancer.

The New Jersey-based health system initially partnered with Google in 2019. It has now migrated to Google Workspace, providing thousands of Chrome OS devices to remote workers, and is using Google Cloud AI capabilities to detect diseases like breast cancer and Covid-19.

The American Hospital Association and Association of American Medical Colleges have filed an amicus brief in support of the New Jersey health systems that are appealing a court decision to delay their merger following a legal challenge from the FTC.

The FTC sued to block the merger between the two New Jersey-based health systems and won a preliminary injunction earlier this month. But the providers believe that the merger would not raise prices or stifle competition — like the FTC alleges it would — and have filed an appeal.

The NowPow referral platform, which is integrated into the New Jersey-based health system’s EHR, will enable clinicians and other care team members to provide patients — whose socioeconomic conditions are negatively affecting their health — with referrals to community resources, like food banks or rental assistance.

Called the Center for Discovery and Innovation, the facility will give researchers the support to develop therapies for diabetes, dementia, cancer, auto-immune disorders and antibiotic-resistant infection.

Uniphy Health creates specially configured apps for healthcare providers with a range of potential features including secure messaging, the ability to share patient notes and mobile access to lab and diagnostic results.

Hackensack will work with Pillo to find ways to use its Amazon Alexa-like robot within the health system.

News of the command center, which is aimed at providing non-emergency medical transportation to patients, comes after Hackensack Meridian’s JFK Medical Center launched a pilot with Lyft.

A healthcare collaboration makes life easier for the entities involved … right? Well, not always. The road to a partnership can be full of stumbling blocks.

In an effort to reduce medical errors and potential misunderstandings, the New Jersey Innovation Institute is developing a “Master Person Index,” which will serve as a master database of each New Jersey resident’s health-related information.

The collaboration with New Jersey Innovation Institute reflects a broader national effort by hospitals and health systems, particularly academic medical centers, to create their own innovation network or partner with groups that can give them access to one.