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:
- AthenaHealth incorporated a digital wallet called PayGround, allowing patients to automate payment processing and improve patient collections.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- University Hospitals Ventures, the innovation arm of Cleveland-based University Hospitals, expanded its partnership with medical device company Lazurite.
- 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.
- 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.
- CVS launched a digital service to make finding, ordering and picking up at-home COVID-19 test kits easier for its customers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network has created a new biotechnology, biomedical and pharmaceutical innovation hub, using its former Bellevue, Pa., hospital campus.
- 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.