D. Geoffrey Vince, Ph.D., was tapped to lead Cleveland Clinic Innovations as executive director, a newly created role, the health system said May 26. 

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University of California San Francisco teamed up with Phillips May 26 to develop technology to improve healthcare data interoperability and the patient digital experience.

Cleveland Clinic is looking to expand its commercialization arm with the addition of a new digital health venture partner who will oversee the health system's innovations and creation of health IT startups. 

HCA Healthcare inked a multi-year collaboration with Google Cloud focused on building a health data analytics platform to support the Nashville, Tenn.-based system's clinical and operational workflows, the organizations announced May 26. 

Darshak Sanghavi, MD, former prevention and population health director at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, recently joined Babylon as the digital health company's new global CMO. 

While Microsoft's $19.7 billion acquisition of speech recognition company Nuance Communications is poised to increase its healthcare footprint, the tech giant says it is not interested in automating everything physicians do, according to a May 25 CNBC report. 

Since launching in March, Dr. B, a platform that matches Americans seeking COVID-19 vaccines with leftover doses so they don't go to waste, has recorded more than 2.5 million signups. However, the company has remained silent on the number of people it actually connected to shots, MIT Technology Review reported. 

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UPMC Health Plan rolled out a tool May 24 that lets members learn more about their benefits and health insurance topics by voicing questions to Amazon Alexa and Google Home Assistant devices.  

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Best Buy Health on May 20 launched a smartphone equipped with virtual care capabilities that can connect older adults to urgent care and response services. 

The University of Washington is teaming up with Microsoft and the Creative Destruction Lab, a nonprofit science and tech program, to launch a collaborative focused on artificial intelligence and biomedical innovations, the organizations said May 20. 

Banner Health is launching a new digital health program with Xealth to scale digital therapeutics and remote monitoring services across the Phoenix-based health system and its Cerner EHR, the companies announced May 20. 

The U.K.'s National Health Service rolled out digital COVID-19 vaccination verification May 18, according to MIT Technology Review.

Wellstar Health System has established a new digital health and innovation center focused on initiatives to improve health equity, aging and children, and sustainability, the Marietta, Ga.-based health system announced May 18. 

Concussion diagnosis company Oculogica, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay are collaborating on wearable devices that detect concussions in military personnel and athletes, according to a May 18 news release.

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As the shift to value-based care accelerates, healthcare organizations are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to help them improve patient outcomes and enhance provider efficiency. 

Tashof Bernton, MD, an internal and occupational medicine physician in Colorado, created a blue silicone bracelet called the ImmunaBand, which has a metal tag with a QR code on it. Scanning the QR code and then entering a PIN number will open to show someone's vaccination status, according to NBC affiliate KXAN in a May 12 article.