With limited manpower and increased demand, five hospitals are using drones to deliver medical supplies, human tissue and medicine between facilities.

LifeStance Health, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based virtual and in-person mental healthcare provider, welcomed former CMS Administrator Seema Verma to its board of directors, according to an Aug. 24 news release. 

Optum has been busy over the last 100 days. Here are six moves from the healthcare innovation company in the past three months.

WebMD launched a new offering that allows patients to search for providers and schedule appointments in a new collaboration with symplr.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health Ventures is joining as a partner in private investment firm Auxo Investment Partners' acquisition of Altus Industries, the companies announced Aug. 24. 

The seemingly ancillary process of patient scheduling offers opportunities for tracking scheduling tendencies and ensuring continued care while ensuring financial health.

Many who started careers during the pandemic have never worked in the same space as their colleagues, and some workplace and management experts predict that missing out on office experiences so early in a career may hinder development of interpersonal office skills, according to an Aug. 21 Wall Street Journal report. 

More electrons and pixels have been posted on the arena of analytics among CIOs in healthcare than almost any other topic.

When the pandemic emerged, hospitals realized digital innovation strategy was no longer a nice-to-have, but rather a must-have. Below, 10 innovation leaders from hospitals and health systems across the country share how their role has evolved since the pandemic began.

Hutchinson (Kan.) Regional Medical Center will serve as the first U.S. test site for a new drone-powered delivery network of healthcare resources including medicine, lab samples and vaccines, GovTech reported Aug. 19. 

New York's digital COVID-19 vaccination verification app is expected to cost about $27 million, The New York Times reported Aug. 19. 

Boston-based Harvard Medical School is launching a new precision medicine effort via a collaboration with Clalit Research Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel, the organizations announced Aug. 18. 

Geisinger is partnering with fintech startup PayZen to launch an artificial intelligence-backed financing solution for patients.

Verily, Google's sister company and a subsidiary of Alphabet, has entered into an agreement to acquire SignalPath, a clinical trial management system.

VigiLanz, an EHR clinical surveillance company, recently named Hayley Burgess, PharmD, as its new chief clinical officer. 

General Catalyst's Commure has acquired PatientKeeper from Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare in a strategic partnership that will develop and invest in healthcare technology.

Investments in new digital health technologies are a gamble many hospitals might not be ready to take, according to an Aug. 17 report in The Washington Post.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is giving access to deidentified patient data to develop artificial intelligence models that improve behavioral health outcomes.

Healthcare organizations must embrace technological solutions that digitize documents and streamline the workflow surrounding the initiation, changes and entire lifecycle of contracts and agreements.

Mark Hallman, vice president and chief innovation and transformation officer of JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, Texas, joined the Becker's Healthcare podcast to talk about care transformation and the big opportunities in the next few years.