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

Virtual diabetes clinic Onduo, a Verily company, named Duke Health executive Eric Huang, MD, PhD, its new chief science and innovation officer. 

Most people are counting down the days until the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Yet, a virtual reality therapy technique would immerse front-line workers back into the pandemic's darkest days to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a June 3 article by The New York Times.

Healthcare delivery is currently experiencing a transformation due to the rising popularity and prevalence of virtual care models, yielding advantages for patients and clinicians.

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

Most digital startups promise to decrease healthcare costs and improve care, luring in billions and breaking records in the first three months of 2021, according to a May 26 article by Bloomberg.

The Digital Medicine Society rounded up 27 health systems, health IT companies and policy organizations as part of a new collaborative that aims to create best approaches for measuring health using digital technologies. 

Technology took on an elevated role over the past year as health systems rapidly expanded telehealth, data analytics, artificial intelligence and remote monitoring capabilities to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic.   

As its newest executive director, D. Geoffrey Vince, PhD, is spearheading Cleveland Clinic Innovations as the commercialization unit undergoes a strategy restructuring and backs the system's health IT expansions. 

Amazon has been steadily ramping up healthcare initiatives for its workforce this year while placing a distinct emphasis on digital connections and services. 

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With the explosive growth in patient data and increase in hospital consolidations and health information exchange, mistakes in patient identification continue to plague hospitals and health systems.

Here are 10 recent partnerships between healthcare organizations and big tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Google. 

The first quarter of 2021 was digital health's most-funded quarter to date, and investors continued the trend in May by pledging high dollar amounts to technology-driven health startups.

The shift from labor-intensive, siloed and error-prone manual processes to digital transformation platforms is enabling hospitals to move faster, improving everything from real-time staffing decisions to patient care.

From their thoughts on how to improve contactless technology to retail giants' healthcare consumerism efforts to how to better engage patients, here are five quotes about the role of innovation in healthcare that hospital and health system executives recently shared with Becker's Hospital Review:

Ada Health, an artificial intelligence-powered app for diagnosing medical conditions, recently raised $90 million in its latest funding round, CNBC reported May 27. 

New York City-based NYU Langone Health is launching an at-home virtual brain stimulation tool for patients to treat a range of cognitive, motor, speech or mood symptoms that occur from neurological or psychiatric conditions.

In the past few years, big tech companies and retail pharmacy chains have scaled up their  consumer-minded healthcare offerings. These efforts, from companies such as Amazon, Walmart and CVS, promise to improve affordability and convenience for patients.

Over the past year, health systems have come to fully embrace digital patient engagement.