Here are three recent investments from Northwell, Intermountain and Kaiser:

Sidney (Neb.) Regional Medical Center is set to break ground on a new $21 million long-term care facility May 18, the North Platte Post reported May 9.

The Eli Lilly and Co. social impact venture capital portfolio received an additional $50 million, bringing the company's total to $300 million.

Ubie, an artificial intelligence-powered symptom checker company, partnered with Google's Android platform, Health Connect (Beta), in Japan.

The investment arms of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy joined in a $7.7 million series A funding round for clinical artificial intelligence company Lucem Health.

Northwell Holdings, the venture capital arm of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, partnered with Aegis Ventures to launch Optain, an artificial intelligence-powered ocular health company, with a $12 million seed investment.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has established a new center focused on advancing artificial intelligence and machine learning. 

Researchers at Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern University used machine learning tools to analyze EHR data and find that secondary bacterial pneumonia was the major cause of death in seriously ill COVID-19 patients.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health awarded $1 million to two employee-driven healthcare innovation projects after 84 projects were submitted for consideration. 

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital is using the artificial intelligence-powered Bionik InMotion robotic arm to make stroke therapy more engaging, local news outlet WFTS reported May 8.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals is employing Microsoft technology and health concierges called "Joes" to get male patients more involved with their healthcare.

UC San Diego Health is using artificial intelligence in the emergency department to analyze bedside and EHR data to predict which patients are most at risk for developing sepsis, La Jolla Light reported May 6.

Pittsburgh-based UPMC's chief technology officer, Chris Carmody, told Technical.ly on May 8 that the health system has been using artificial intelligence for a number of years and is currently proceeding cautiously with the technology.

Researchers for Cleveland Clinic in South Florida are tailoring medical treatments using quantum computing and artificial intelligence, WBPF reported May 8.

Generative AI such as ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-based chatbot developed by OpenAI, is being touted as a tool that can revolutionize healthcare, and although it is pretty new, hospitals and health systems are working on piloting this technology to see if it can be applied to the clinical setting.

UC San Diego Health is using a $22 million donation to establish a new center for digital information and artificial intelligence, La Jolla Light reported May 6.  

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care plans to roll out its ChatGPT-like feature for physicians next week, CBS MarketWatch reported May 8.

St. Louis-based Ascension is one of the largest healthcare systems in the country and has a sizable investment arm, Ascension Ventures.

As the buzz around artificial intelligence continues, top health systems are taking notice and hiring for AI-related roles.

ChatGPT, the AI-based chatbot developed by OpenAI, was released in November and has already been showing promising results for the healthcare industry as it can pass several benchmarking exams and was found to be more empathetic than physicians in answering patient questions.