Mediwhale, a South Korean artificial intelligence-powered health diagnostics company, has been selected for the MedTech Accelerator, an entrepreneurial and business development program for healthcare companies put on by Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Tempe-based Arizona State University. 

Portland-based MaineHealth is piloting the use of Dragon Ambient Experience, a tool to record and transcribe patient conversations, from software and artificial intelligence company Nuance', the Bangor Daily News reported March 21.

Miami-based Nicklaus Children's Hospital has launched a virtual reality driving program for autistic and neurodivergent teens preparing to take their driver's exam.

The Gates Vascular Institute at Buffalo (N.Y.) General Medical Center is partnering with brain-computer interface company Synchron to launch a trial exploring restoring functionality to patients with severe paralysis. 

Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Chicago joined in a $1.7 million seed funding round for health wearables data company Rook.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has launched Culmination Bio, a biotech company that plans to help analyze millions of data points to predict, prevent and treat disease.

Cleveland Clinic and IBM have installed the first healthcare quantum computer at the health system, SDxCentral reported March 20.  

Nuance Communications, a software and conversational artificial intelligence company owned by Microsoft, launched Dragon Ambient Experience Express, a clinical documentation application that uses OpenAI's newest model, GPT-4.

Forty-seven percent of hospitals and health systems reported that they are turning to artificial intelligence to help alleviate staffing and labor insufficiencies, a March 15 survey from the Health Management Academy found. 

Health data platform Zus Health has closed on $40 million in new financing and partnered with primary care technology platform Elation Health.

UnityPoint Health Ventures, the venture capital arm of West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health, is participating in a $15 million funding round for telehealth platform OpenLoop.

Healthcare organizations lack the technical skills, bandwidth and staff to deploy and scale artificial intelligence into their clinical workflows, VentureBeat reported March 15. 

CVS Health Ventures led a $20 million series A investment round for SpectrumAI, a company working to create digital tools for clinicians treating autism with applied behavior analysis.

As artificial intelligence begins to proliferate in healthcare, health system digital leaders told Becker's it will only ever be able to do so much.

Remote monitoring helped control the blood pressure of hypertension patients from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham, according to a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Perspectum, a precision medicine company specializing in medical imaging, received $19 million in the second close of its series C financing round.

The UCSF Rosenman Institute, the innovation arm of San Francisco-based UCSF Health, named Welfie and Moving Analytics as its Adapt program awardees.

Medical device giant Medtronic joined in a $25 million financing round for Fire1, a remote monitoring company focusing on heart failure.

Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures helps clinicians from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine bring their digital health ideas to market, Technical.ly reported.

From generative artificial intelligence projects to tech partnerships with Best Buy, here are 21 hospital and health system innovation projects Becker's reported on in the past month.