New York City-based venture capital firm AlleyCorp on Sept. 30 spun out the AlleyCorp Healthcare Fund, an incubator dedicated to healthcare innovation.

Onduo, part of Google's life sciences sister company Verily, said Sept. 30 it will offer Fitbit devices and Fitbit Premium alongside its multicondition virtual care platform.

Eleven recent partnerships between healthcare organizations and Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft: 

From their thoughts on how the health IT will evolve in the next five years to how to choose which digital health startups to invest in to which mottos guide their innovations strategies, here are seven quotes about the role of innovation in healthcare that hospital executives shared with Becker's Hospital Review in September:

Hospitals are dedicating more time to crafting a "digital front door" strategy, as having a strong online and digital presence can be key to patient procurement, engagement and retention. KLAS Research released a report Sept. 28 in which 27 healthcare providers shared their strategies.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health is seeking $100 million in funding to build an innovation district that will surround its future medical school, Wake Forest School of Medicine, according to a Sept. 29 Charlotte Observer report.

"Digital front door" has arisen as a patient engagement buzzword in recent years, but as is the case with most buzzwords, the term lacks a consistent definition. To address this, KLAS Research released a report Sept. 28 in which 27 healthcare providers shared what the term means to them.

Each health system has a different mission, budget, leadership team and population to serve. Because of this, innovation strategies vary from system to system. Below, nine hospital executives share the motto or idea that guides their organization's innovation strategy.

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

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center welcomed eight health tech startups to join the newest class of its innovation accelerator, the hospital announced Sept. 27. 

HealthEdge, a tech management platform for health plans, tapped Anshul Pande as its new senior vice president of research and development, the company said Sept. 24. 

Amazon has revealed three new capabilities available to hospitals via Amazon Connect, a feature on Amazon Web Services' cloud, the company said Sept. 27.

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

Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Research & Innovation campus is projected to add nearly 1,000 news jobs with a focus on research and science, according to a Sept. 22 NBC 4 report.

Telemedicine, hospital-at-home programs and artificial intelligence will be key to improving healthcare access and affordability in the future, according to Gianrico Farrugia, MD, president and CEO of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic.

Digital health startups garner most of their funds from their founders, angel investors, friends and families, according to a Deloitte report.

Health IT startups have secured more than $1 billion in recent funding rounds, with cardiology as the top-funded medical area, according to a Deloitte report.

Driven by innovation, Nano Tag sets a new standard for location-aware disposable BLE tags

Xealth, a digital health startup spun out of Renton, Wash.-based Providence in 2017, has garnered 14 health system investors to date.

Genetics and genomics represent a huge opportunity for health systems, but they also bring considerable challenges related to patient access, physician workloads and precision medicine program implementation.