Newsweek named the top digital health companies in the U.S. for 2024, including a breakout of 50 data analytics companies.

Epic says it can predict nurse staffing needs and patient lengths of stay within its EHR.

Colorado has become the first state to enact a comprehensive plan to regulate artificial intelligence, a move that has elicited mixed reactions, Politico reported May 22.

Providence, Microsoft, and the University of Washington have developed an open-weight, AI-powered pathology model called Prov-GigaPath.

Biotech company Cue Health is laying off all its employees and will shut down May 24, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported May 21. 

Leaders at Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health are focusing on a common area to reduce physician burnout: the EHR.

Healthcare investment firm Patient Square Capital aims to raise more than $6 billion for its second fund focused on healthcare services, according to PitchBook.

Sherri Hess, vice president and chief nursing informatics officer of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, said the organization has provided more than 100,000 iPhones to its clinicians.

Transcarent, a $2.2 billion healthcare startup backed by health systems, is developing an artificial intelligence chatbot to help patients answer healthcare questions, Forbes reported May 15.

Digital fitness platforms are moving way beyond step-counting and heart rate monitoring. Today, these platforms are beginning to affect multiple facets of an individual's health — from integration with fitness centers to becoming a requirement for reimbursement of popular GLP-1 drugs for weight loss.

In an era marked by an abundance of options in the health IT marketplace, Mayo Clinic Platform aims to get proven tools to healthcare providers. 

Biotech company Cue Health is enacting a new cost-cutting strategy that will lead to the termination of 230 employees, constituting 49% of its workforce, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Memorial Hermann Health System said it will increase its reach and support the shift to value-based care by investing in a $2.2 billion digital health startup.

Hippocratic AI, a healthcare generative AI startup valued at $500 million, now counts 12 nursing leaders as advisors, including four from health systems.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has created a generative artificial intelligence app, CS Connect, that can interact with patients and ask them questions, the Los Angeles Business Journal reported April 29. 

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health has introduced a digital health platform that texts patients to set up at-home colon cancer screenings.

West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health has expanded virtual care to three other states.

A majority of healthcare organizations have embraced Apple's iPhone and iPad as their go-to shared-use smart devices, an April 10 report from KLAS found. 

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai expanded its virtual primary care app April 10.

When it comes to artificial intelligence, Cleveland Clinic is focusing on how to use the technology to better evaluate its patients and to drive greater caregiver efficiencies.