Chris Carmody, chief technology officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC, said the health system is exploring how it can use technology and AI tools such as ChatGPT to make care more personalized and efficient for patients. 

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health is exploring a partnership with analytics company SAS to develop new artificial intelligence-powered cloud products for healthcare organizations.

Oshi Health, a virtual specialty care gastrointestinal health company, raised $30 million in a series B financing round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies with participation from CVS Health Ventures.

With plans to target healthcare, venture capital firm Northrim Horizon closed on $153 million in financing in its second fund.

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare will use an AI-based and machine learning platform to streamline its utilization management services and improve workflows. 

As it shifts its focus to health system revenue cycle management, artificial intelligence company Olive sold its utilization management business line to RCM firm Availity.

A Cincinnati Children's nurse, Abby Hess, DNP, released a video game designed to help pediatric patients put on an anesthesia mask and fall asleep before surgery.

BioEnterprise, a biotech business incubator, is being taken over by Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University, cleveland.com reported April 10.

The venture capital arm of Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System joined in an investment round for KabaFusion, a provider of home infusion services.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital is training a computer algorithm to recognize changes in a patient's face and identify signs of stroke, The Wall Street Journal reported April 10.

Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health is partnering with medtech company HistoIndex to deploy the company's artificial intelligence-based imaging tool at its research building.

Boston Children's Hospital is hiring an artificial intelligence prompt engineer to work with large language models like ChatGPT.

General Catalyst led a $10 million seed round for biotech company CTRL Therapeutics in a funding round that also saw participation from the venture capital arm of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health.

Naples (Fla.) Community Hospital opened a multimillion-dollar medical simulation center used to train clinicians on real-world scenarios, local news outlet NBC2 reported April 7.

Researchers from Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai developed an AI-based tool that performs better than sonographers when diagnosing cardiac function, according to an April 5 article published in Nature. 

With all the buzz around artificial intelligence, health systems are looking to hire IT workers familiar with AI.

The Center for Digital Health Innovation at San Francisco-based UCSF Health has been honored for employing artificial intelligence to sort through millions of faxes.

Venture capital firm Canaan closed on $850 million for its Canaan XIII fund to target healthcare and technology companies in the seed and series A stages.

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Drexel University have created a machine-learning tool that can analyze 53 million patient notes to assess if patients have any similarities in their medical histories. 

Health systems that ranked near the top of Fortune's Most Innovative Companies list told Becker's they develop innovative ideas from clinicians that will help patients quickly.