Several health systems are partnering with software company Workday on a cloud-based platform that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate tasks and increase efficiency.

Forward-thinking community hospital CEOs are giving information technology leaders a voice in strategic planning sessions. 

Northwell Holdings, the venture capital arm of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, participated in a $30 million financing round for Memora Health, a digital care enablement company.

Cleveland Clinic is partnering with Verizon to deploy a private 5G network at its Mentor (Ohio) Hospital.

San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare opened a new innovation and education center dubbed the Prebys Innovation & Education Center in San Diego on April 14. 

Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System is partnering with Clear to embed new security verification tools within its network.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has created an Artificial Intelligence Institutional Review Board and an AI Oversight Committee to review its usage of AI tools in clinical settings, FedScoop reported April 14.  

Hospitals and health systems are making financial investments into startups. If successful, these companies have the potential to generate additional revenue for the health system.

The buzz around OpenAI tools, including GPT, has bled into the healthcare sector, and some hospitals have begun using ChatGPT in their day-to-day work.

BPOC, a healthcare investor, closed on a $425 million continuation vehicle fund for a portfolio of five healthcare services companies.

Northwell Holdings, the venture capital arm of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, has invested in a $1.25 million funding round for a company combining neurostimulation and artificial intelligence to restore movement in patients after a stroke or traumatic injury.

Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic will start using a food-as-medicine platform that its venture capital fund invested in.

Neenah, Wis.-based ThedaCare is aiming to better understand its patients through the use of GPT technology and large language models.

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health is partnering with digital health company Ada Health to launch an artificial intelligence-powered symptom assessment tool.

Healthcare data analytics company Arcadia received a $125 million investment from Vista Credit Partners.

Google Cloud launched a new artificial intelligence-powered claims acceleration suite designed to accelerate the prior authorization process.

Cobalt Ventures, the venture capital arm of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, invested $8 million into the mobile care platform MedArrive.

Scene Health, a digital medication adherence company, raised $17.7 million in a financing round that saw participation from Healthworx, the investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield.

Jamie Clarkson, MD, a hand surgeon specialist at East Lansing-based Michigan State University Healthcare, is using virtual reality as part of his procedures, NPR affiliate WKAR reported April 12.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is partnering with biotech company Naveris to launch a clinical trial of the company's precision medicine blood test for tumor tissue DNA, NavDx.