Roberta Schwartz, Houston Methodist’s chief innovation officer, has had years of experience overseeing technology adoption at her organization. At a conference, she highlighted how important it is for digital health tools to have strong EHR integrations and encouraged hospital leaders to not be afraid of starting various technology initiatives in unrelated areas.

Glen Tullman — CEO of care navigation company Transcarent, as well as former CEO of Allscripts and Livongo — discussed what he thinks the future of healthcare will look like during the HIMSS conference in Chicago. He laid out five predictions, including an increased focus on consumer expectations and more investment in AI.

Johnson & Johnson’s CEO believes the company will maintain its strong reputation for innovation amid changing economic conditions because of its hefty investments in research and development. He said it’s crucial to invest both internally and externally, as some of the most innovative and lucrative opportunities come from outside companies.

UC Davis Health announced the first startup to come out of its health tech innovation incubator. The company, named WellCent, is a platform that allows patients and caregivers to onboard medical devices into their home and access digital health resources.

Give innovators guidelines that reward hard-fought failures. Look outside your organization and industry for breakthroughs to adapt, rather than products or procedures to adopt. Innovation isn’t something you acquire. It’s something you grow from within.

The innovation institute run by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill teamed up with Amazon Web Services to create a venture studio to turn the university’s digital health research concepts into full-fledged startups. AWS’ platform beat out the other major cloud providers because it was “the most entrepreneurial,” according to the venture studio’s managing director.

Healthcare has historically trailed other industries when it comes to the adoption of new technology. But providers that fail to get serious about bucking this trend are putting their businesses at risk for closure, according to John Barto, Microsoft’s chief digital transformation officer. Many clinicians end up leaving behind institutions that make them feel like they are stuck with archaic workflows and data management systems, he said.

Third Culture Capital (3CC) is a venture capital firm founded with the mission to foster more equity and diversity in health technology innovation. 3CC Founder and Managing Partner said the firm is intentional about connecting to the “unique lived experiences” of the founders it invests in, as this approach ensures that it is not just checking its diversity boxes.

UnityPoint Health CEO Clay Holderman said his health system made a mistake when it used to leave decision making concerning new technology adoption up to the director of its venture fund instead of involving its frontline clinicians. UnityPoint’s clinicians didn’t take too well to this, so the health system re-structured its technology adoption process to prioritize the voices of its clinical staff.

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Redesign Health, a company that creates healthcare startups, closed a $65 million Series C funding round. The company has already built more than 40 startups — such as cancer care technology provider Jasper Health, home health company MedArrive and weight loss startup Calibrate.

The model of investing huge amounts of money into one drug to try to recoup it later is problematic at best and unsustainable at worst. Platform technology provides a better, more cost-effective way forward.

To stay competitive and differentiate themselves, hospitals, physicians and practices must use technology to enhance the patient experience while simultaneously improving outcomes.

Healthcare, like much of the rest of the economy, is facing a labor shortage. Artificial intelligence can lighten the load for overworked providers through everything from automation to triaging patients.

Called the Innovator Community Expansion Initiative, the main goal of the effort is to pinpoint and remove obstacles keeping underrepresented groups, like women, out of the innovation process. The initiative will promote networking and education about the path to commercialization.

Tendo Systems, a company that is co-developing a digital engagement platform with provider organizations like Jefferson Health, raised $50 million in a new funding round. The funds will be used to advance the development of the platform, which aims to be the “OpenTable” of healthcare.

In a wide-ranging interview, Dr. Geoff Vince, the new executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, discussed his plans for how the commercialization arm will operate, the technologies he thinks will drive interest and whether the pandemic has changed approaches to innovation.

The Covid-19 pandemic has upended the healthcare industry in a myriad of ways — including the focus of IT innovation. Healthcare CIOs are seeing IT innovation priorities shift to arenas like at-home care, data science and supply chain.

During a panel discussion at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, three physicians from Stanford Medicine discussed the investment opportunities that can help accelerate innovation in healthcare in the coming year.

As precision medicine gains steam, the question arises: how can reimbursement models evolve to support these often costly therapies and ensure patient access is not blocked? Drugmakers and payers are working together to find some answers.

The Florida-based hospital plans to launch the fund next year, under the leadership of a newly named vice president of innovation. It will be used to support startups and invest directly in healthcare companies.

While payers and policymakers took a more narrow-minded perspective on innovation value in 2020, the year 2021 will bring an increased focus on a treatment’s societal value, how innovation interacts with digital technologies, and whether new innovations are able to reduce existing health outcome inequalities.

The drug industry maintains that policies like foreign reference pricing and letting Medicare negotiate prices would harm innovation. But closer examination reveals that while there is truth to that claim, it’s more complex than it appears at first glance.

The second edition of the Manova Summit in Minneapolis October 14-16 will take a wider perspective of healthcare transformation.

Unlike other industries, where artificial intelligence has successfully replaced many human interactions, healthcare must remain human first, technology second.

The two organizations have teamed up to establish an innovation lab, which will apply technology and analytics to Sanofi’s real-world database in an effort to better understand diseases and which treatments work for patients.

A visit to the Louisiana health system sheds some light on how it is innovatively addressing chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes, the inpatient experience and more.

The 30,000-square-foot facility in Salt Lake City will be used for evaluating, testing and designing new revenue cycle management technologies for hospitals, health systems and physician groups and will also serve as a client experience center.

A new report by the Center for Connected Medicine and The Health Management Academy suggests health systems should define innovation, empower their decision-makers and maximize their strengths, among other practices.

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.