13 recent health IT, innovation partnerships 

From virtual care to diverse tech accelerators, February has brought partnerships between a number of health systems, commercial entities and federal agencies. 

​​Here are 13 of the most recent:

  1. AthenaHealth incorporated a digital wallet called PayGround, allowing patients to automate payment processing and improve patient collections.

  2. The American Academy of Family Physicians teamed up with Hint Health, which uses technology to streamline and automate certain processes, to launch an innovation lab focused on addressing physician burnout. 

  3. University of California-Irvine and its attached health system launched a technology-driven institute for precision health, focusing on health sciences, artificial intelligence, machine learning, engineering, clinical genomics and data science.

  4. Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine partnered with the local Marion County Health Department to provide the department with access to its Epic EHR system in an attempt to improve patient care coordination. 

  5. Transcarent, a digital health platform for self-insured employers, has formed a partnership with Chicago-based Rush University System for Health to provide personalized health guides, tools and resources to enhance Rush-sponsored medical care options for its employees. 

  6. University Hospitals Ventures, the innovation arm of Cleveland-based University Hospitals, expanded its partnership with medical device company Lazurite.
      
  7. Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health launched Well360 Diabetes Management, a virtual care program for adults with Type 2 diabetes. The program will provide virtual access to endocrinologists, clinicians, remote prescriptions and care coordination with primary care physicians.

  8. Allentown, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network joined the Health System Innovation Council, an innovation alliance for health systems among health system investors and venture capital firm Caduceus Capital Partners.

  9. CVS launched a digital service to make finding, ordering and picking up at-home COVID-19 test kits easier for its customers.

  10. Investment firm Jumpstart Health has launched a fund dedicated to investing in Black-led health technology startups. It is backed by Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, Bank of America and Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly. 

  11. Los Angeles-based UCLA Health, in partnership with BioscienceLA and UCLA Biodesign, launched TechQuity Accelerator, a four-month program focused on helping tech startups bridge health equity gaps.

  12. Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network has created a new biotechnology, biomedical and pharmaceutical innovation hub, using its former Bellevue, Pa., hospital campus.

  13. Cerner has partnered with the U.S. Social Security Administration to speed up the transfer of relevant, patient-directed medical records from health systems to the SSA in an attempt to simplify patient disability benefits claims through clinical EHR retrieval.

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