Former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush and Golden State Warriors NBA player Klay Thompson recently joined a $5 million investing round for healthcare price transparency startup Turquoise Health. 

Below is a list of investments that health systems made in digital health startups and internal innovation efforts in the last 30 days.

Adventist Health inked a digital patient experience partnership with GetWellNetwork, the Roseville, Calif.-based health system said July 26.

Penn Medicine is launching a new health informatics center this fall that will focus on health data projects across the Philadelphia-based health system's innovation and information services departments, the health system said July 26. 

Canon Medical Systems unveiled its strategy to transform its health IT division.

Bayonne, N.J.-based CarePoint Health on July 21 unveiled its new innovation center, which aims to partner with health IT vendors, investors and startups to improve patient experience and clinical applications. 

Stamford, Conn-based Sema4, a genomics company spun out of Mount Sinai Health System, completed its merger with special purpose acquisition company CM Life Sciences, the organizations announced July 22. 

In May, two of the largest healthcare providers in the U.S. — Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic — made a joint strategic investment in Medically Home Group, a Boston-based tech services company that powers hospital-at-home programs.

As healthcare's digital transformation continues, new trends arise each year. Below are five innovation trends to which health systems' innovation leaders have been paying especially close attention in 2021:

Saurabha Bhatnagar, MD, has left his role as CMO of UnitedHealthcare to head up health initiatives at Commure, a health tech startup focused on connecting apps and data used by physicians and patients during the appointment process. 

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

More than 200 Amazon Echo devices have been donated to Calcutta Health Care Center in Ohio for patients and nurses to use for better communication across the facility, according to a July 16 WKBN report. 

Chief information officers at companies worldwide accelerated the launch of digital programs to respond to the changing needs of their organizations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, these imperfect programs could incur debt to retroactively fix, according to a July 16 report by The Wall Street Journal.

Jason Szczuka became Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health's first chief digital officer on June 28, and he brings a wealth of payer experience to the role. 

MajorBoost, a new health tech company that focuses on issues such as health insurance reimbursement, launched July 15. 

With the rapid acceleration of digital health during the pandemic, hospitals and health systems are increasingly getting involved in health tech licensing and commercialization of innovative platforms and devices. 

Telemedicine was the top-funded digital health category during the first half of 2021, according to a report released July 16 by Mercom Capital Group.

The pandemic has led to calls for a digital overhaul of long-standing hospital practices, but there are still some outstanding factors causing hesitation, according to a July 9 Harvard Business Review report.

Venture-capital investments in digital health are soaring to new heights and helping startups lock down on growth, but some experts are concerned that the market may be overheating, according to a July 15 Wall Street Journal report. 

Former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush launched his new digital health data-sharing platform Zus Health in June, with a focus on selling software directly to other developers, rather than physicians or providers, according to a July 14 Boston Globe report.