Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Health established a founding partnership with Cadence, a remote care monitoring company that launched Aug. 5 with $41 million in funding. 

Pharmacy discount company GoodRx on Aug. 5 partnered with Surescripts, a health information network focused on e-prescriptions, to provide real-time drug discount pricing in EHRs.

Relatient and Radix Health have entered into a definitive agreement to merge, while also securing $100 million in growth equity capital from investors.

Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are pushing forward digital transformation efforts by creating new tools and launching innovative programs. 

Baxter, a medical products company, is advancing its digital transformation through a collaboration with Amazon Web Services.

Anthem is joining Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare's Innovation Hub to create digital health solutions enabled with 5G technology.

Remote patient monitoring company UCHealth recently closed a $45 million Series B financing round. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has created many new challenges within healthcare. Some of these challenges include shortages in critical care beds, daily strain across nursing and physician groups, delays to elective surgeries, and heightened patient-access restrictions to care facilities.

Reno, Nev.-based Renown Health opened a new "care traffic control center" Aug. 2, which will use new technologies to coordinate patient care transfers, telehealth and home-based care from a single location. 

Venture-capital investments in digital health have skyrocketed since the pandemic. The trend continued in July, as investors pledged high dollar amounts to technology-driven health startups.

Here are 10 recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives accelerating digital transformation efforts at healthcare organizations. 

Aaron Martin, executive vice president and chief digital officer of Renton, Wash.-based Providence and managing general partner of Providence Ventures, joined the Becker's Healthcare Podcast to talk about how the health system thinks about innovation and the strategy for its venture fund.

University Hospitals in Cleveland partnered with Edgility to provide the technology platform for its hospital-at-home offering, the companies said July 28. 

UMass Memorial Health is teaming up with Halo Health to launch the health system's clinical communication initiative.

The parent company of Catalyst Health Network, a 1,000-physician network based in Plano, Texas, acquired digital health company MediBookr, according to a July 27 news release.

From their thoughts on how to craft an effective digital health strategy to hospital at home initiatives to the most overused terms in the health IT field, here are six quotes about the role of innovation in healthcare that hospital and health system executives shared with Becker's Hospital Review in July:

New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences appointed Andrew Evens, DO, as its clinical and health affairs division's first associate vice chancellor for clinical innovation and data analytics, the university announced July 27. 

The Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community, a coalition of providers and health IT companies including Johns Hopkins Medicine, Teladoc Health and Pfizer, on July 27 unveiled its first two digital health measurement projects. 

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente developed the "COVID Hotspotting Score" to use data from routine clinical care to predict the onset of a COVID-19 surge up to six weeks in advance, according to a July 26 study published in BMJ Open.

Nine recent partnerships between healthcare organizations and big tech companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft.