New York has begun a pilot program testing IBM's digital health pass during events in New York CIty's Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced March 2.

Intermountain Healthcare, Ascension and Amazon Care are founding members of a new healthcare coalition aimed at expanding home-based clinical care. 

Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System's investment company Florida Community Health Network and investment capital firm Caduceus Capital Partners have partnered on a new initiative for health system innovation.

Philips on March 2 named Shez Partovi, MD, its new chief innovation and strategy officer, effective March 22.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, in partnership with T-Mobile, is deploying 5G technologies to the Miami VA Healthcare System.

Highmark Health, the parent company of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network, is building upon its tech partnership with Google Cloud through a new six-year collaboration with the tech giant's sister company Verily. 

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

The next step on a moonshot journey We recently closed our Series D round, led by Tiger Global Management, that brings our valuation to $1.3 billion. We’ve raised $225 million to date from a series of incredible partners who believe in our mission—to help healthcare care as one.

We need a new, refreshing, ethical and ultimately empowering "marriage" of healthcare and technology. And we need it now.

The CDC teamed up with Boston Children's Hospital and healthcare software company Castlight Health to launch a website to help Americans find which vaccine providers in their area have COVID-19 vaccines in stock, according to a Feb. 24 NPR report.

In April, Microsoft will release the first update for its Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare that will include new features for remote patient-monitoring and the Microsoft Teams and Epic EHR integration, according to a Feb. 24 company blog post. 

Jeffrey Cohen, MD, stepped down from his role as president of Allegheny General Hospital in 2020 to head up Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network's innovation efforts and biotechnology hub.

The Vaccination Credential Initiative, a collective of organizations including Cerner, Epic and Microsoft, hopes to begin testing its co-developed COVID-19 vaccine digital passport technology this spring, according to a Feb. 23 Kansas City Star report. 

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

From their thoughts on how to improve healthcare equity to ensuring telehealth remains a key part of care delivery after the pandemic, here are six key quotes about the role of innovation in healthcare that executives from hospitals and health systems across the country recently shared with Becker's Hospital Review:

The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a new light on the importance of digital technologies within the practice of medicine and has served as a catalysis to boost innovation, according to John Brownstein, PhD.

Here are the hospitals and health systems that have distributed innovation funds — to startups, internal projects and venture funds — this year, beginning with the most recent:

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way that medtech companies must approach the sales process in order to ensure revenue growth and deliver the products providers and patients need.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's accelerator has selected seven health tech startups to join its newest class.

Google is planning to open its first office in Minnesota as part of its ongoing health partnership with Rochester-based Mayo Clinic, according to a Feb. 18 Star Tribune report.