Hospitals and health systems continue to work with Big Tech companies to bolster their technology services and offerings. Here are eight such collaborations Becker's reported on in the past month.
1. Truveta, a data collective with 28 health system partners that runs on Microsoft Azure, has expanded its data sets to include more than 2.5 billion clinician notes and 45 attributes of social determinants of health to enhance its clinical support and research capabilities, according to an April 19 Microsoft blog post. Its partners include Renton, Wash.-based Providence, Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, and New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health.
2. Epic is partnering with Microsoft to develop and integrate generative artificial intelligence into its EHR software, with health systems beginning to pilot the new integrations, the tech giant said April 17. UC San Diego Health, Madison Wis.-based UW Health, and Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care are already starting to use the new integration to automatically draft message responses.
3. Amazon subsidiary One Medical has partnered with Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare to open five clinics in Connecticut — with more on the way, Hartford Business Journal reported April 17.
4. Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health said April 17 that it's migrating its Epic EHR to Microsoft's Azure cloud.
5. Paramus, N.J.-based Bergen New Bridge Medical Center said April 6 that it expanded its relationship with Altera Digital Health to use the company's Paragon EHR for five more years and deploy Microsoft Azure hosting.
6. Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has partnered with Microsoft to move its infrastructure to the cloud, Shireen Ahmad, system director of finance, group purchasing and affiliate business, said at an April 3 Becker's event.
7. Researchers working with Google Health and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are using deep learning to predict people's biological aging through their eyes, TheStreet reported March 30.
8. Amazon Web Services selected 23 startups March 27 for an accelerator program aimed at easing healthcare burnout. Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham, Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Ventures and the American Hospital Association will provide assistance.